RBC posted:

i dont really see how chicfila is worse than any other global fast food chain

Starks posted:

Firing workers for being Muslim, donating to conversion therapy, advocating publicly against same sex marriage and abortion. They even want to ban divorce. The owners are doing their best to roll back LGBTQ and women’s rights and they’re being completely open about it. That’s a step beyond the normal profit-driven evil of most corporations in my book since it’s just purely ideological.

So yeah no ethical consumption under capitalism but if you ARE going to do it maybe get Popeyes instead.

zapplez posted:

actually no, there are degrees of terribleness and we should in fact publicly shame a company that is rabidly anti-gay.

BGrifter posted:

Chick-fil-a leans heavily into the religious angle. They close all their stores on Sunday and put Christian propaganda in their kids meals.

They present themselves as a morally superior product targeting white Christians as part of their branding. It’s not super surprising their rampant homophobia gets more of a reaction than other fast food chains who profess to be neutral and take great pains to avoid controversy.

That said, it’s not like going to McDonalds or Burger King instead is some great moral victory that needs to be celebrated on the Internet.

Helsing posted:

It's a very blatant example of how we naturalizes the mistreat of workers and act like it is completely legitimate as long as it only attacks them in their capacity as workers.

Helsing posted:

But not companies that are rabidly anti-worker?

Hexigrammus posted:

We have Chic-fil-a in Canada?

Wish I had the money to fly there and hand out copies of Margaret Atwood's sequel to the Handmaid's Tale.

Ardent Communist posted:

I'm lucky in most of the brands that I somehow develop a taste for tend to be not totally terrible. At least Quiznos kills fascists, after all.

xtal posted:

I posted this in the Toronto thread and decided to share it here. To make me feel better about Chick-fil-A I donated $250 to the 519 (a non-profit in Toronto's gay village) and I'll donate more if some other people make donations that are financially sensible to them.

Rust Martialis posted:

Cameron.

Femtosecond posted:

https://twitter.com/derrickokeefe/status/1170333331545673728

Archive of the article here: Mark Hecht: Ethnic diversity harms a country's social trust, economic well-being, argues instructor


Readers of the Canada Debt Bubble Thread will know that this sort of racist trolling from the Vancouver Sun is nothing new. Douglas Todd regularly muses about the impact of foreign students and immigrants (too many???) on Vancouver's housing market, but this time the op ed section went overboard and drew lots of attention to themselves.

Franks Happy Place posted:

I'm honestly still reeling at this. They actually printed a full on blood and soil white nationalist diatribe in the print edition of both metro dailies.

It's coming to Canada, folks. Time to start doing fash punching exercises so I don't break any fingers.

Franks Happy Place posted:

I'm honestly still reeling at this. They actually printed a full on blood and soil white nationalist diatribe in the print edition of both metro dailies.

It's coming to Canada, folks. Time to start doing fash punching exercises so I don't break any fingers.

Franks Happy Place posted:

I'm honestly still reeling at this. They actually printed a full on blood and soil white nationalist diatribe in the print edition of both metro dailies.

It's coming to Canada, folks. Time to start doing fash punching exercises so I don't break any fingers.

Reality Sinner posted:

Tape your hands

Franks Happy Place posted:

I'm honestly still reeling at this. They actually printed a full on blood and soil white nationalist diatribe in the print edition of both metro dailies.

It's coming to Canada, folks. Time to start doing fash punching exercises so I don't break any fingers.

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James Laurence, Katharina Schmid & Miles Hewstone (2019) Ethnic diversity, ethnic threat, and social cohesion: (re)-evaluating the role of perceived out-group threat and prejudice in the relationship between community ethnic diversity and intra-community cohesion, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45:3, 395-418, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1490638

Abstract: Research frequently demonstrates diverse communities exhibit lower intra-community cohesion. Recent studies suggest there is little evidence perceived ethnic threat plays a role in this relationship. This paper re-examines the roles of ethnic threat and prejudice in the diversity/cohesion relationship. First, we test threat/prejudice as conceptualised in the literature: as mediators of diversity’s effect. Second, we test a reformulation of the roles of threat/prejudice: as moderators of diversity’s effect. Applying multi-level models to cross sectional and longitudinal data of White British individuals across England and Oldham (a unique English town case-study) we find neighbour-trust lower in diverse communities. However, perceived threat/prejudice does not mediate this relationship. Instead, we find perceived-threat/prejudice moderate diversity’s impact on neighbour-trust. The result is diversity only reduces neighbour-trust among individuals who already viewed out-groups as threatening. Longitudinal analysis confirms the importance of out-group attitudes in the diversity/neighbour-trust relationship. In diverse communities, residents whose out-group attitudes improve, or worsen, become more, or less, trusting of their neighbours. However, in homogeneous communities, changes in out-group attitudes are not linked to changes in neighbour-trust. We therefore argue and demonstrate that perceived-threat emerges from other societal processes (such as socio-economic precariousness) and it is when individuals who already view out-groups as threatening experience diverse neighbourhoods that local cohesion declines.

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Donya Ahmadi (2018) Diversity and social cohesion: the case of Jane-Finch, a highly diverse lower-income Toronto neighbourhood, Urban Research & Practice, 11:2, 139-158, DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2017.1312509

Abstract: Diversity has increasingly emerged as the core focus of many studies concerning factors impacting on social cohesion. Various scholars have concluded that diversity is detrimental to cohesion. Most of this research, however, draws generalisations based upon quantitative data and fails to account for the impact of inequality, segregation and discrimination, and their interconnectedness to diversity. This research provides an indepth qualitative analysis of the perceptions of inhabitants of a diverse Toronto neighbourhood regarding formal and informal interactions, common values and attachment. The findings suggest that the internalisation of gendered and class-based racism by inhabitants plays a crucial role in shaping perceptions and interactions.

[and from the conclusions to this one:]

In the case of Jane-Finch, the analysis suggests that, regarding the creation of common values, neighbourhood attachment and formal and informal interactions, inhabitants do not perceive diversity as an asset or a liability. While there were instances in which diversity was perceived to have contributed to social cohesion, the positive contributions were often implicit and required the presence of other factors such as commonalities (language, culture, religion, age and political views), shared activities and a sense of solidarity grounded in situated knowledge and lived experiences. In some cases, such notions derived from belonging to the same group (country of origin, age, class, etc.), while in others they spanned different social and cultural backgrounds and identity politics.

The findings demonstrate that living with diversity often created opportunities for cultural exchange and increased recognition; however, the existing hierarchies among cultures and income groups were persistent in shaping and conditioning perceptions and interactions. Civility towards diversity thus went hand in hand with negative stereotyping and essentialisations based on race, gender, religion and class. Similarly, diversity only led to informal interactions when there were commonalities, shared activities and experiences present among inhabitants. Regarding formal interactions, negative encounters with paternalistic social workers and service providers – signalling once again the internalisation of negative stereotypes directed towards lower income ethnic minorities – were the real factors undermining community participation. The impact of poverty, institutionalisation and the internalisation of gendered and class-based racism in shaping residents’ perceptions and interactions were thus much more tangible than diversity.

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Ruud Koopmans & Merlin Schaeffer (2016) Statistical and Perceived Diversity and Their Impacts on Neighborhood Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the Netherlands, Social Indicators Research, 125:3, 853–883, DOI 10.1007/s11205-015-0863-3

Abstract: The question whether ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion has produced much controversy. We maintain that more attention must be paid to cognitive mechanisms to move the debate ahead. Using survey data from 938 localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We not only consider perceptions of the amount, but also of the qualitative nature of diversity. By asking about various qualitative aspects of diversity, we test the cognitive salience of three explanations that have been proposed in the literature for negative diversity effects: out-group biases, asymmetric preferences and coordination problems. We show that all three mechanisms matter. Perceptions both mediate statistical diversity effects, and have important explanatory power of their own. Moreover, we are able to address the question to what extend the relationship of perceived diversity and neighborhood social cohesion varies across policy contexts. Based on assumptions in the literature about positive impacts of inclusive and culturally pluralist immigrant integration policy approaches, we hypothesize that ethno-cultural diversity is less negatively related to neighborhood social cohesion in more inclusive policy contexts. Our results provide partial support for this hypothesis as perceived diversity has a significantly stronger negative impact on neighborhood cohesion in Germany.

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We were able to show that these cognitive mechanisms are indeed important mediators of statistical diversity. Inclusion of the perception variables substantially reduced the size of the regression coefficients for statistical ethnic diversity, which dropped below the level of statistical significance in all three countries and for immigrants and natives alike. A formal mediation test showed that overall about half of the effect of statistical ethnic diversity was mediated by our summary measure of perceived diversity. Perceptions are therefore an important mechanism by which statistical diversity affects social cohesion, certainly if one takes into account that we in all likelihood underestimate the strength of this mediation path because we had to pool natives and immigrants and use the combined social cohesion scale to have enough statistical power for a formal mediation test. Still, other mediating factors that are beyond the scope of this paper may be at work, too. The most frequently mentioned of these additional mediators are intergroup social contacts (e.g. Stolle et al. 2008). To the extent that these are less dense than intragroup contacts, diverse areas will either have a lower overall social network density or more segregated social networks, which both may harm trust and other aspects of social cohesion. Beyond their role as mediators of statistical diversity, we showed that perceptions of diversity are also important predictors in their own right. Including perceptions in our models raised the explained variance of neighborhood social cohesion by more than 60 % among natives and 40 % among immigrants. This is an important result if one considers that perceptions can be more easily affected by policies, political mobilization, and media coverage than the statistical composition of populations. Our results therefore suggest that future research should focus on factors that moderate the perception of diversity in order to better understand the conditions under which statistical ethnic diversity affects social cohesion.

As a first step in this direction, we investigated the potential impact of national policies on immigration and ethno-cultural differences on the effects of perceptions of diversity. Based on assumptions in the literature about positive impacts of inclusive and culturally pluralist policy approaches on interethnic relations, we hypothesized that, controlling for statistical levels of diversity, ethno-cultural diversity would be less negatively related to neighborhood social cohesion in the more inclusive policy context of the Netherlands, compared to the more assimilationist policy contexts of France and Germany.

Our results provide partial support for this hypothesis as the negative effect of perceptions of diversity was indeed stronger among natives in Germany compared to their counterparts in the Netherlands. However, French and Dutch natives, and persons of immigrant origin in all three countries, did not differ significantly. The reason for the more negative association of perceived diversity with neighborhood cohesion among German natives may be the particular way in which immigrants have been, and to some extent continue to be politically framed in Germany, namely in terms of nationality and foreignness. Even after the 2000 reforms of the naturalization law many immigrants, and even many of their German-born children, do not hold German citizenship and are depicted in public discourse as foreigners. By contrast, what France and the Netherlands have in common—in spite of very different approaches towards cultural and religious rights for immigrants (Koopmans et al. 2012)—is that they have long had inclusive naturalization regimes that have allowed most immigrants to become citizens. The stronger emphasis on foreignness in Germany and on common citizenship bonds in France and the Netherlands may be a reason why similar levels of perceived diversity are more strongly associated with feelings of distrust and unease among German natives than among their French and Dutch counterparts.

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Hobby Lobby purchased thousands of ancient artifacts smuggled out of modern-day Iraq via the United Arab Emirates and Israel in 2010 and 2011, attorneys for the Eastern District of New York announced on Wednesday. As part of a settlement, the American craft-supply mega-chain will pay $3 million and the U.S. government will seize the illicit artifacts. Technically, the defendants in the civil-forfeiture action are the objects themselves, yielding an incredible case name: The United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty (450) Ancient Cuneiform Tablets; and Approximately Three Thousand (3,000) Ancient-Clay Bullae.

vyelkin posted:

You will note that the countries he cites in that op-ed as successfully navigating diversity (supposedly by forcing assimilation or ethnic segregation) are countries with low inequality, like the Scandinavian countries or Switzerland or Japan or Hungary, while the countries he cites as unsuccessfully navigating diversity (supposedly by allowing ethnic mixing), like the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia, are countries with relatively high inequality (look at the numbers yourself if you don't believe me). High and growing inequality makes people more fearful, less trustful, and makes racists more racist. Low inequality makes people less fearful, more trusting, and makes racists less racist.

eXXon posted:

Wait, he cited Hungary and Japan as successfully managing diversity? Just .

Switzerland is also very insular and even after recent reforms has at times absurd requirements for obtaining citizenship, which you need to do at three levels - federal, canton and commune. I can't easily find information about the commune level but my understanding is that in some communes if your neighbours don't like you they can make your life miserable.

infernal machines posted:

Who was it in the previous version of this thread that said multiculturalism is at odds with social cohesion?

Fart Amplifier posted:

Went and checked out /r/Canada to see how they feel and found a bunch of up voted white supremacy

infernal machines posted:

Who was it in the previous version of this thread that said multiculturalism is at odds with social cohesion?

zapplez posted:

Bernier is a goon?

Arivia posted:

CI?

zapplez posted:

Bernier is a goon?

vyelkin posted:

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NDP MP Romeo Saganash said that Trudeau “doesn’t give a gently caress” about the rights of indigenous people, amid mounting tensions between the country’s First Nations and at the federal government.

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“During pre-budget submissions to the Commons finance committee, Dale LeClair of the Assembly of First Nations estimated that about $25.5-billion in federal money has failed to flow to communities since funding was capped in 1996.”

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The biggest piece of money in the Indigenous envelope—$1.15 billion over five years—targeted on-reserve infrastructure like housing, water treatment systems, health facilities and other similar projects. The money is part of a $4 billion package the Liberal budget said will be spread over 10 years. None of the new infrastructure money will be invested this year. A first instalment of $275 million will flow next year, with a matching amount to follow in 2019-2020, the next election year. The budget says a total of $600 million is slated to roll out in 2021 and 2022.

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The government's most recent projection is that by the middle of 2018 there will be 66 advisories left to lift, dropping to 51 in 2019.

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But some delegates weren’t happy with the minister’s platitudes.

“She talks about nation to nation, and so does Trudeau. He says the same thing: nation to nation and reconciliation,” said Hart Perley, proxy for Tobique First Nation Chief Ross Perley.

“Well, you know what? Canada is not a nation. It never was and it never will be. Canada is a corporate state. And as soon as you look at that and recognize that and admit it, then maybe the Indigenous peoples across this land will start believing what comes out of your mouth,”

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While the bill cannot compel changes in the Canadian system, it would create obligations for the Canadian government to concern themselves the right to self-government for First Nations that they have ignored.