10-04-2023, 02:16 AM
(10-03-2023, 08:47 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: So the hate that is online really isn't from the people who are constantly associating with them it is more so from those who are of an older demographic.
I disagree with this, and would actually caution against believing racism will die out with older generations. My personal experience with the older people in my life is that they generally just don't care about Canada, it's developments, and its future. Demographics aren't really a concern for them, and any racism they express seems to come from ignorance rather than hatred. They are simply coasting towards retirement in the Canada of yesteryear.
Meanwhile I've had a shocking, and honestly disappointing, number of friends in the 20-35 age range develop racist beliefs. Most of these people are university educated, and many of them also attended the diverse Cameron Heights with me. Many are non-white and/or immigrants themselves. I think a major point that also separates younger people from the older generations is that their racism is far more informed and thus held with more conviction. Younger people like me grew up dining in the homes of immigrants with wildly different backgrounds, we have decade long online friendships with people in the most random parts of the world, we consume vast amounts media from outside of the American cultural empire, etc. The problem is that despite being so informed about other cultures they, just like seemingly everyone in this thread, fail the separate the individual from the group. Their informed racism is the other side of the coin to you suggesting that interacting with, befriending, or loving an individual from a culture precludes taking issue with the culture.