Wow! These guys are good for at least one xenophobic comment every few months...
This time, Pierre "Little PeePee" Poilievre uses the derogatory term "tar baby". This is such a well-known racist terminology, that he can't deny what he was saying (check Oxford's Dictionary, if in doubt). Of course, "lie" is right in the middle of his last name... so perhaps he'll do the typical Harper Reform-a-Tory thing and "lie, conceal, and fabricate"...
It ain't pretty when the true Conservative colors show through.
Now, you know the typical conservative response will be to drag out one off-the-cuff, and not NEARLY as derogatory term used by a Liberal in the distant past to justify all their (Conservatives') hundreds of xenophobic expressions... Nice try. We know who's party ideology best "fits" the intolerant lifestyle. Intolerance is a 90% Conservative thing (follow link for full study on this fact) ... more accurately, moderates who are accepting of change and differences tend not to be xenophobic, while extremes (of either end of the spectrum - left or right) tend to use xenophobia and fear to divide populations. Cosmopolitans from Western Liberal Democracies tend to be the most tolerant and positive/progressive bunch anywhere... Conservatives tend to "diverge", "bunkerize", and generally fear, mistrust, and avoid new peoples, and new ideas.
Don't question me... Question the "ivory tower elitists" who authored the study...
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Wow that study you cited was from 1965!!!
Do you have anything more recent to back up your claim that intolerance as an exclusively conservative phenomenon?
Psychological research methods and statisical analysis were pretty poor at that time as the analyses were limited by the fact that computers were so amazingly slow that those of us today can barely even imagine.
Not saying your theory is false (in fact intuitively it sounds correct), but backing it up with a study from 1965 is not particularly persuasive.
As for Poilievre's comment, read this article (written by a Liberal who I believe once even ran to be President of the Young Liberals of Canada about a decade ago) and let me know if you think it applies. Look fwd to hearing what you think.
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