tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5106080055873224940..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Credit Where Credit Is DueThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-1933545332938488412016-02-28T08:27:41.438-08:002016-02-28T08:27:41.438-08:00When I read your list I thought you had written &q...<br />When I read your list I thought you had written "Australians." I couldn't figure out why anyone would complain about that exclusion. It turns out you meant Austrians. I have to say that is a fairly specific list and oh so racist. That certainly was a different time. A couple of generations earlier the list was shorter - Irish. <br /><br />It's a bit sad that the "real Trudeau" did the heavy lifting of defying the bigots to amend the criminal law to remove the prohibition of homosexuality while Junior does the light dusting in pardoning the most persecuted gay man. Bold action from one, window dressing from the other. Of course I'm glad he's chosen to do it but it does seem like a gimmick to score a few easy points.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-81231397842825134892016-02-28T05:50:56.831-08:002016-02-28T05:50:56.831-08:00In the midst of all the world's troubles, Moun...In the midst of all the world's troubles, Mound, we often forget the social progress that we have seen in our lifetime. Your recounting of Everett Klippert’s case reminds us that it really isn't so long ago that that kind of discrimination wasn't even questioned.<br /><br />In the city I grew up[ in, there was an affluent 'sub-community' that, until at least 1960, had covenants that forbade people from selling their homes to "Negroes, Asiatics, Bulgarians, Austrians, Russians, Serbs, Rumanians, Turks, Armenians, whether British subjects or not, or foreign-born Italians, Greeks or Jews."<br /><br />https://books.google.ca/books?id=tq2aLCqEs28C&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=westdale+covenant+restrictions&source=bl&ots=Xp1iGEKdiR&sig=qeBfEvJxvwacPUTI1-FaF33ObBI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinqYG-y5rLAhXog4MKHUJqDEUQ6AEILzAD#v=onepage&q=westdale%20covenant%20restrictions&f=false<br /><br />While the time is growing late for all of us, it is still worth remembering that we have moved forward in some ways.Lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.com