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you should talk to Jews that go to McGill- we`ve have to deal with a fu**er with a giant sign standing in front of our school since April of 2004... I know he`s bonkers but it`s still crappy.

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Hi,
you should talk to Muslims in McGill. They faced a lot of racism and recently McGill refused to give them a place to Pray.
Contact MSA McGill or SPHR.

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i am a muslim. ever since 9/11 we have been through hell.. going to the US has become a nightmare.. no matter how small or how big our bags our they always make us go through a special line to get them checked... because of our muslim name something is put on our boarding cards which gives us extra hell at the gates.. and they always bother the brown people and the only white person ( not trying to be racist myslef but its true) they bother is some 15yr old girl with no bags or some elderly women with one small purse..doesnt the us remember timothy mcveigh.. he was not a muslim and what he did was unforgivable so why doesnt the us ratte every anti-conformist in the us?

How about Anglos living and working in Montreal in bilingual environments who are alienated and ostracized from teh French community? It is not exactly an issue of "Race", but neither are religious faiths perse. Maybe discrimination is what we mean.

I do not like to play the race card often.But
racism,subtle or overt,is still a part of life.For black people open racism at the hands of the police,the justice system and in the job market is very prevalent in many environments.But for other minorities,racism can be because of ethnic appearance,a foreign accent,religion or a very ethnic name.
In the arts,politics,sports and entertainment racism is much more pronounced than in the hard sciences.But that is changing slowly.Hopefully.

Racism needs to be felt in order to trully understand its effects. As a black person i know too well about its consequences. I dont like to play the victim, thats a fact, so i therefore try to take discrimination as a result of ignorance on the part of the protagonist. There is a little anecdote i would like to share. As a child i was living in a part of France where being a minority wasnt a common thing. Going to school was hell sometimes due to the accumulation of comments i received regarding my race. Coming home one night, my mother saw me cry and asked me what was wrong. I informed her of the multiple racial comments i received almost daily (please note that these comments werent infused with raged but rather irony). Anyways sitting on her lap she informed me that if i wanted this horrible comments to stop, instead of getting mad and focusing this sadness inward, i should try to make my commentators laugh... Yeah i know... Yet the next day i tried, and the result were astonishing. Each comments I received were replied to with a joke regarding the subject. I wasnt making a fool out of myself but rather out of the ignorance of the protagonist. Beleive it or not i made them laugh. My point is this. Racism, discrimination and stereotypes are all the subjects of ignorance mixed with a little bit of stubbornness yet they are unfortunetly inevitable to some people. What minorities must do (and most of us do) is to cope with this fact and elevate themself to a higher level of consciousness. To be able to accept the difference but to disagree with the wrongfull judgement imposed by the ignorance of the stereotype.

Hi

To the guy complaining about Muslim students not having a place to pray. I'm at Oxford and this issue has been brought up here as well that Muslim students do not have a place to pray. But why should the University fund this. I myself am a minority and a Sikh but I certainly do not expect the university to fund my religious needs. I think the just solution for the Muslim community at McGill is to emulate the Jewish initiative at McGill, which, is to raise funds purchase a house for the purpose of religious practice. To expect the University to fund the Muslim communities religious needs is a difficult notion to comprehend. The argument has been made that there is a chapel on campus that the university funds. However, this suggestion neglects to consider that the Birks building was donated by the Birks family. Perhaps, the Muslim community could donate a Mosque and then the Muslim students will have a place to pray on the McGill campus. Most importantly, as a minority please stop embarrassing the your community by making unreasonable and unthoughtful suggestions that McGill should fund a place for worship for Muslim students....then this should be also done for all others religious communities at McGill. Is there a bias towards anglo religious beliefs at McGill, perhaps there is but did you not expect this when you came to Canada. These people have been here for 400 years they are entitled to a level of bias. Over time it may change but it is an extremely just and fair society relative to the world. We as minorities owe the Anglo community in Canada a debt for them opening their doors to us. Let's show their institutions and way of life some respect. If you are extremely upset with it there is an option for us all minorities which is to return to ous place of origin where society is more just and provides us the opportunities that are found within Anglo societies....lol. However, the best advice to the Muslim community stop complaining and emulate the Jewish community at McGill .... and I should add in many other respects .... take things into your own hands and stop asking for free handouts from an Anglo society that has already given so much.... raise the funds, build a mosquem, donate it to McGill and there you have a place for worship....or don't even donate to McGill keep it for yourself....cheers....dave.

What about us Natives? I feel as if though, sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we still get thrown into the bottom of the barrel and then get s**t on.

My Irani boyfriend and I have been through so much of this crap... all this bigotry.

I guess it doesn't help being gay either - haha!

I decided not to care about all this. Why stress myself? I just hold my head up high and pretend them "perfect" people don't exist. Why stoop down to their level?

Peace :)

Many comments, many victims. How do you feel about your white oppressors. Slightly rasist?!?
Start a open minded word view within your own heart.