Sunday, March 09, 2008
The UN: if they weren't serious, they'd be hilarious
Wow...been gone a while, haven't I? It's been a busy two months - not bad, mind you, but busy. It's been tough, too, because there's a lot of stuff I would've liked to talk about, but of course I can't remember much of it now. One thing I can remember, though, is this little gem of irony. Apparently the UN considers the Canadian government racist for its use of the term "visible minority", used in all manner of documents and processes in a backwards attempt to reduce discrimination. "Visible minorities" legally refers to "persons, other than aboriginal people, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour" - thereby, strangely enough, singling out whites (though of course the UN was not at all concerned with the well-being of Caucasians). Apparently having this "minorities" tag attached to them could cause problems for people, though what those problems are was never really discussed.
The same report, by the way, called for Canada to provide welfare services to "undocumented immigrants and failed refugee applicants". Yes, that's right, people who are in Canada illegally and people who were actively rejected for entry to the country now apparently deserve services paid for with taxpayer dollars. I'd mock that, but honestly, I can't find anything more stupid to compare it to.
The same report, by the way, called for Canada to provide welfare services to "undocumented immigrants and failed refugee applicants". Yes, that's right, people who are in Canada illegally and people who were actively rejected for entry to the country now apparently deserve services paid for with taxpayer dollars. I'd mock that, but honestly, I can't find anything more stupid to compare it to.
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