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October 10, 2008

If you win, you're still a rat

I love Toronto's Chinatown on Spadina for the groceries and for the restaurants and for the shopping. What I do not love are the squalid piles of garbage, the inconsiderate and dangerous driving or the system of apartheid city governance which creates both problems by enforcing the law for some but not for others. Take, for example, yet another instance of rats frolicking in a restaurant window. Much as progressives do not believe Muslim women deserve the same protection of the law as white middle class academic feminists, progressives do not believe Chinese home or business owners deserve protection from cholera outbreaks or the plague.

The left's verminous reaction to the incident is exemplified by doit2julia, commenting at the Toronto Star.*

Thank you for covering THIS story and perpetuating negative stereotypes about Chinese people and their food. The stereotype of an unscrupulous business owner and a culture who eats cats and dogs is lurking behind this story, seemingly about poor health inspection. Why not find a story about a dirty fast food restaurant or an upscale French restaurant? I didn't think vermin were that fussy. After seeing the way that multiculturalism was portrayed so well on the front cover of your morning edition ("Meet Your GTA Candidates")this story really was a really unfortunate choice. Racist stereotypes run deeper than we realize I guess.

Posted by doit2julia at 2:30 PM Thursday, October 09 2008

Ignore the obvious public health issue in favour of ideological finger pointing. Check.
Infantile sarcasm (as opposed to by smart sarcasm). Check.
Berate a publication for words it did not publish. Check.
Class war. Check.
Invoke the apartheid holy grail of multiculturalism. Check.
"Racist!" Check.

My American cousins, you are looking at Obama's America in miniature.

* Kudos to the Toronto Star for acknowledging a blog broke the story. Unkudos for linking CityNews but not blogTO (both are linked above).

Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 10, 2008 07:04 AM

Comments

My limited experience in the Boston restaurant business tells me that if people really knew how many rodents were running around the typical city restaurant after hours...well, let's just say there's a reason exterminators are on contract and never lack for business.

I can also tell you I recall quite well going in to many Chinatown establishments and noting all the many, many problems that we'd never get away with in our non-Chinatown location.

Posted by: Solomon [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 10, 2008 02:05 PM

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