A reply to the insidious fashion among Canada’s white-saviour judiciary to discount sentences by race—and the slow, corrosive damage this does to justice, dignity, and the very idea of equality.
The same mentality leads Canada to support murderous Palestinians over peace-loving Israelis. Apropos your essay: Earnest Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying. Beautiful book.
They started this in the EU, giving lighter sentences to immigrants. It's part of the anti-white trend in the UK called two-tier policing. It's clearly wrong, morally, judicially, in every sense. Before that the idea that someone's background could be a mitigating factor was introduced by sociologists in the 1970s, as I recall, and has been controversial ever since. It negates the idea of free will and moral responsibility by excusing bad actions as the result of upbringing. The problem is that many people who had bad backgrounds turned out to be law-abiding citizens, while some privileged people turned into criminals. So it's not a good argument.
It is the same with the UN and NGO galaxy and their response to Palestinian Arab terror... they simply aren't capable of peaceful action because they have been in resistance ever since the 5 Arab armies that attacked Israel in 1948 lost the war... the nakba that they have been promoting ...
the bigotry of low expectations and the lack of attention to the trauma of their victims...
A system whereby one is absolved based on an immutable characteristic like race is stating unequivocally that, they are lesser human beings or perhaps not really worthy of being part of the human race. At the same time, others, the white race is being punished for their crime and for being white. What a travesty of a country Canada has become. Is there hope for it. In Vimy France the WW1 memorial is one of the most beautiful ever created and I could not believe Canada had the ability to build this monument. The Canadian government of today and recent years, the institutions, many thinkers and leaders, as well as their supporters shame themselves and the rest of us along with the legacy of what that monument represents for Canada.
Surely part of an appropriate sentence and rehabilitation in custody is to realise the gravity of what you did and accept why you have to do your time, under one set of values/concept of justice - not 'the bigotry of low expectations' .... I remember my dad playing 'Officer Krumsky' from West Side Story .... so this issue is far from new.
The same mentality leads Canada to support murderous Palestinians over peace-loving Israelis. Apropos your essay: Earnest Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying. Beautiful book.
They started this in the EU, giving lighter sentences to immigrants. It's part of the anti-white trend in the UK called two-tier policing. It's clearly wrong, morally, judicially, in every sense. Before that the idea that someone's background could be a mitigating factor was introduced by sociologists in the 1970s, as I recall, and has been controversial ever since. It negates the idea of free will and moral responsibility by excusing bad actions as the result of upbringing. The problem is that many people who had bad backgrounds turned out to be law-abiding citizens, while some privileged people turned into criminals. So it's not a good argument.
It is the same with the UN and NGO galaxy and their response to Palestinian Arab terror... they simply aren't capable of peaceful action because they have been in resistance ever since the 5 Arab armies that attacked Israel in 1948 lost the war... the nakba that they have been promoting ...
the bigotry of low expectations and the lack of attention to the trauma of their victims...
Excellent column!
A system whereby one is absolved based on an immutable characteristic like race is stating unequivocally that, they are lesser human beings or perhaps not really worthy of being part of the human race. At the same time, others, the white race is being punished for their crime and for being white. What a travesty of a country Canada has become. Is there hope for it. In Vimy France the WW1 memorial is one of the most beautiful ever created and I could not believe Canada had the ability to build this monument. The Canadian government of today and recent years, the institutions, many thinkers and leaders, as well as their supporters shame themselves and the rest of us along with the legacy of what that monument represents for Canada.
Surely part of an appropriate sentence and rehabilitation in custody is to realise the gravity of what you did and accept why you have to do your time, under one set of values/concept of justice - not 'the bigotry of low expectations' .... I remember my dad playing 'Officer Krumsky' from West Side Story .... so this issue is far from new.
Yes I’m not really saying anything radically new. It’s sad it needs to be said.
over and over since the beginning of time