"Canada being the North American capital of niceness, politeness, smiling moose . . ."

Ah, Canada - America's hat. That niceness you mention is really an arrogance. Too many (although, certainly, not all) Canadians will remind everyone how "nice" they are while in the same breath remind you how ignorant, selfish, and rude Americans are.

Sort of like Democrats; but, a whole country with too many of those passive-aggressive bullies.

Happy belated Canadian Thanksgiving! (hey, didn't the Canucks culturally appropriate that holiday from the US?)

I like all the Canadians I know. There is a decency to Canadians, generally speaking, and the ones I know don't remind you of it -- or tell you how rude Americans are? Who does that?

I spent a good bit of time in Canada growing up, and I was just in Vancouver this summer for an ev psych conference. People I encountered there were pretty lovely.

Interesting post by Brian Boutwell and a colleague on the racial "no-fly zone" -- the thinking and behavior that will automatically get you called a racist:

http://quillette.com/2016/11/21/what-is-a-racist-why-moral-progress-hinges-on-getting-the-answer-right/

It is true that assertions about group differences can be motivated by malice. But group differences either exist, or don’t, regardless of whatever motivations are in place to seek them out. In the parlance of scientists, “it’s an empirical question” whether groups differ, on average.

It might even surprise us which direction these differences take. For example, many in the media focus on black/white differences in outcomes and infer that all of them result from racism, or “structural oppression.” But they often (deliberately?) omit the fact that Americans from South and East Asia perform better on a variety of metrics than other groups. Asian Americans have slightly higher SAT scores and higher incomes than Americans of European descent. And in every country in which they are represented, Ashkenazi Jews are disproportionately productive, innovative, and creative. Is it plausible to argue that such statements about Jews or Asians are racist? Hardly. In fact, failure to acknowledge the possibility of genetic differences in intelligence has led some to search for bizarre explanations of Jewish success, like supernatural sorcery or global conspiracies.

I have an American friend who lives and works in the Vancouver area. More than a few of his Canadian coworkers never miss an opportunity to slag on the USofA.

I drink and take my clothes off and foam up in the shower and dream of Trump making Ottawa pay for a wall on our shared border, the world's longest.

The Celeste Yim piece at the link is just a 20 year-old working on her comedy chops. She has a long way to go, but seems harmless enough. A lot of comics start out using race as comedy material.
Taking her post seriously is a Canadian oddity. They're like that. Even Salon magazine has noticed. Glenn Greenwald writes about a threat to jail Ann Coulter and barring a leftist British MP from entering the country. http://www.salon.com/2010/03/22/canada_5/

In fact Yim may be prosecutable under Section 319 (2) of Canada's criminal code:

"Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of

(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or

(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction."

Canada is still a constitutional monarchy under Queen Elizabeth. British weenie wankerdom must be a communicable disease.

John Waters must be jealous. In his heyday, you used to have to put some effort into bad taste (I still remember Divine shoplifting raw meat by slipping it between "her" thighs). Now you just have to put on a sombrero.

So just to be clear, a private business (college) is investigating its customers (students) for something they did outside of company property?

Would we stand for Wal Mart snooping on its customers Facebook feeds to find justification to refuse them service?

If a college wants to do this, I wouldnt have a problem so long as they issued a full refund. But I get the feeling that these activities arent so much about moral superiority as they are about kicking out student who have paid to bolster their bottom line.

FYI I LOVE Canadians with their smug attitudes

This story is going on my list

No in addition to pointing out how the Canadian government has ruled it a civil rights "violation" to requires food handlers to wash their hands after taking a shit, we can add educators spying on students every moment of their lives

And speaking of inappropriate

I was watching some clip show and the guest was one of the people with down syndrome who had achieved somewhat of a celebrity status, the host asked if he had ever gone swimming with alligators as a lead in to a bunch of clips where people get attacked by animals.

The guest said "No, do I look that retarded to you"

Only a small portion of the audience laughed, you could tell they wanted to be outraged, but had no one politically acceptable to brow beat with their superior ways

Crid:

I drink and take my clothes off and foam up in the shower...

Crid, don't be gross. People are trying to feast today.

Hey, chicks dig him. That's one reason why.

Hey, he might be hot. You dunno. Neither do I.

I'm not a chick Rad. And all men are inherently ugly (to me at least).