George Smitherman finds out the hard way that the rainbow coalition isn’t what its cracked up to be.

The trouble for liberals is that, all too often, they believe their own propaganda.

Take the case of failed Toronto mayoral candidate George Smitherman. George Smitherman is openly gay. Toronto is chock full of recent immigrants, many from the third world. Multicultural theory predicts that these immigrants should be natural allies of George Smitherman because they have a common enemy – the racist, sexist, homophobic white patriarchy. The trouble for George is that recent immigrants, overall, disapprove of homosexuality more than any other group in Canada. Especially the Tamil, Muslim, Sikh and Caribbean communities. 

This fact was illustrated in a late breaking campaign story when an ad aired on Tamil radio advising listeners to vote for Ford because “his wife is a woman”. There created a controversy about who created those ads but the fact remains, many immigrant communities openly sided with right-wing Rob Ford.

Of course, liberation theory is right to say that Rob Ford looks like a card-carrying member of the white ruling class to many immigrants. But unfortunately so does Smitherman. The only difference between the two is that Ford has a conventional family, which immigrant families can relate to, and Smitherman does not. What do they have in common with an effete, urban, white, gay man living in an expensive Downtown Toronto condo? And besides, many of them are small business owners as well as religious (at least the ones most likely to vote in municipal elections). 

So next time around George, put down that that textbook on deconstructionism and try and look at the world through the eyes of the people you want voting for you. You might be personally offended by what you see but, hey, we live in a democracy. Remember George that in a democracy the voter is always right so you might as well at least be aware of what the voters are thinking.

 

Comments

[real conservative]

A lot of people were turned off George and voted for Joe instead.

[gary]

This crash&burn by furious George is more telling of the rainbow crowd that hijacked the SCOC ruling for "2-Persons" of the same-gender being allowed tha equal status of Marriage.
The SCOC DID NOT rule for Gay-Marriage because nobody has ever had to prove their sexaul-preference on a video to get a Marriage License.
BTW
I had a bitter fight with a major Charter Bank over their Funding of the PRIDE parade while naked males are allowed to expose themselves to children,the bank also funds a PRIDE H.R. dept. while not funding any other gender/sexual-preference group among the 98% Str8 population.
Alas, the OHRC under Barbara Hall did not see the Human Rights violations to make Str8 people complicit by-proxy to enable Child-Abuse and take Profits or mislead Share-Holders that their Dividends did not mention it was adjusted to endorse Child-abuse in public.
Plus the new QuAIA pro-hamas float that makes a tacit approval for hamas murdering Homosexuals in public throughout Gaza.
If the PRIDE parade is moved to a paid-Venue for adults only and be self-reliant for funds, then this whole issue can go away. But as long as the fundamentalist-gay extremists among the moderates keeps using their GayStappo tactics to impose the Rainbow doctrine on 98% of the population.....they better get used to how Democracy works and that the SOB (South Of Bloor) crowd is NOT canada.
Imagine the struggle for the Liberals because Calgary elected a Mayor for his campaign and not for his Islamic faith,so much for those bigots and racists out west when Toronto has yet to have a Muslim mayor and that USA got a non-White leader even befor the Liberals have had a female Party leader Federaly.

[George Smith]

Hey Gary ... thanks for appealing to my libertarian instincts ... even if I threw up a little in my mouth over your modernistic (and puerile) spelling exercises.

I'd rather not make such an ass of myself. The members of any group sees the world through their own set of glasses.

Time to leave your Mommy's basement, Gary.

Regards.