{"id":15490,"date":"2012-06-14T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2012-06-14T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:13:32","slug":"the-victim-mindset-among-quebec-protestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/the-victim-mindset-among-quebec-protestors\/","title":{"rendered":"The “victim” mindset among Quebec protestors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Delmar<\/a> on some of the long-standing grievances being channelled by Quebec’s most recent protestors:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite Niggers of America:\u201d That\u2019s how author Pierre Valli\u00e8res famously described the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois people in his 1968 book, which the former Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) terrorist leader wrote from his prison cell.<\/p>\n

Valli\u00e8res argued that the struggles of French settlers in British North America were similar to those of pre-segregation era blacks in America, and the lingering effects of English repression were reason enough to issue a call to arms in the late 1960s. FLQ members then kidnapped and murdered Pierre Laporte, who was Quebec\u2019s deputy premier, and sparked a national crisis that ended in martial law.<\/p>\n

Valli\u00e8res and the FLQ may be dead, but the notion that Quebecers are an oppressed people lives on.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

Although the \u201cN Word\u201d hasn\u2019t made a noticeable comeback just yet, it\u2019s only a matter of time before fringe elements search for new and more shocking tactics to attract attention to their cause which, at least legislatively, has hit a dead end.<\/p>\n

Upon seeing the salute images, many jumped to the conclusion that protesters were racists or that Neo-Nazism was on the rise in Montreal; neither is true. They aren\u2019t racist \u2013 at least not intentionally. There is a genuine belief, as Valli\u00e8re expressed, that Quebecers are in the midst of an epic battle to save democracy and break away from the shackles imposed on them by their Anglo overlords.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

In many ways, he [Amir Khadir] embodies the Quebecois victim mentality. At a press conference last week, he compared his struggle with those of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. He turned to a CTV News reporter, a black woman, and said that \u201cLaw 78 is as unacceptable as segregation of blacks was in the 60s.\u201d And he said that in all sincerity, with a straight face.<\/p>\n

The culture of victimization runs deep. Some Quebec laws are based on the concept that Francophone culture is under attack, and restricting the use of other languages, as is the case with Bill 101, is an important weapon in the war against Americanization. And make no mistake: This is a war, ideologically speaking. Political elites, particularly within the separatist movement and the opposition Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, believe the mere existence of the English language in this province is an assault on French.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Delmar on some of the long-standing grievances being channelled by Quebec’s most recent protestors: \u201cWhite Niggers of America:\u201d That\u2019s how author Pierre Valli\u00e8res famously described the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois people in his 1968 book, which the former Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) terrorist leader wrote from his prison cell. Valli\u00e8res argued that the struggles of French settlers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,10],"tags":[400,325,720,113,114],"class_list":["post-15490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-liberty","tag-language","tag-montreal","tag-protest","tag-quebec","tag-separatism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-41Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15493,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions\/15493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}