Blogs Apr 8, 2010 at 3:46 pm

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Really? Really?
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This seemed deja vu-ey. Turns out Hecht Slogged a photo of the sign in '08 too, I think when you guys were all up there heading into New Year's Eve. I have room in my head to remember seeing the image before, but space out on my PIN sometimes. Yeesh.
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I totally take offense to that comment, Dan. There are at least 2 black people who live in my little town in Alberta, and Whistler can't help being really white, what with all the snow... Yeah, small towns in western Canada aren't the most racially diverse, but we make up for it with our lack of both Republicans and supremacists...
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wow. that's tacky. i would expect that at Pigeon Forge, not Whistler!
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'See where you can afford Whistler even with Loonie at par. Cleaning up on the college lecture circuit?
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@3 - my next door neighbors in Trail, BC were black too. Race isn't the same there, for the most part - we both got promotions in the Army about the same time, did as well in school, so you're probably projecting your American attitudes. Most racism in Canada is about the most recent immigrant group or about language or culture.
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Go home. Now. You suck.
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What is wrong with picture? It's a reference to a Samuel L. Jackson movie, no?
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@6, Trail! That explains a lot. They have the world's largest lead smelter there. You licked the window and got brain damage. It all makes perfect sense now.
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There are probably Americans who don't know who Amos and Andy were, so I guess it wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of Canucks don't know. Still, yeah, that's pretty fucking white.
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Dan,
While in Whistler you should play the "Makin Bacon Run" Game.
You need a hoodie, trucker hat and a can of soda. As you walk along the village stroll, look for cops. Once one is spotted, raise the can to your lips as you make eye contact. Then do a 180 and walk the other way. You get points for distance. Trade them for sexual favors with your boyfriend.
Getting tasered means a disqualification.
And no Whistler is too white. Everyone is Chinese
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Yeah, we have one of those in Victoria, and I often wonder what the hell they were thinking. The worst part is, it's an import store, so middle-class white women can buy vaguely Central-American looking designs and look "earthy". I won't go in on principle.

You should see if there's a White Spot nearby.
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@9 - no, they installed the scrubbers when I moved there at 13 yo. Before that I lived up north in Kaslo, BC.
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@13 Still, you lived in Trail? My God, man. I was up there for a tournament back in my teenage years, and boy was that a forlorn place to be.
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One time at my old job we were rewarded with a free weekend in Whistler. Two black guys that we worked with said they didn't want to go cause as they put it "black people don't go skiing." As it turned out they went, and it just so happened to be the weekend of a national black ski convention.
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Arrgh, okay @6, the attitude I was trying to "project" was sarcasm, our little towns here really aren't racially diverse, compared to the big cities (not sure how this reflects my "American" attitude, what with saying I live in Alberta, CANADA, and my posting name is "Canuck"...???) You're right, if there's any "racism" here in Alberta, it's directed at Quebec for the most part, as I'm sure you know. I would also say there is more tension between liberals and conservatives than between races out here.
@10, um, yeah, we know who Amos and Andy were, that's why the play on words (Amos and Andes) is funny...if you haven't shopped at this store, it sells sweaters from...wait for it...the Andes. As Dan would say: "Cripes!" Are all Americans this literal, or just the really enlightened ones who read SLOG?
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@16, you are mistaking Will @6 for a sentient being who can understand and respond to arguments.
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HD's who think this is offensive are probably unaware how popular A&A DVDs are with AA folk of a certain age.
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You suck so hard. Jesus, the sucktitude. Owie.
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Oh my god I'm like so outraged.

Oh, and Danny boy, if you think it's too white, you can always invite your HUGE amount of black friends to move there. Like, call them, right now, and get them to move to Whistler, because, you're like, SO concerned.

That should take you, like, zero seconds, and should result in, like, zero black people moving there.
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As a Vancouverite I can tell you where the name comes from.

The owner used to have two golden retrievers, Amos and Ande. The dogs were frequently in the store sleeping in the back. I've seen them myself. The dogs died several years ago and the Vancouver store is no longer called that. It's still a clothing store so maybe it was sold. I dunno.

I'm not sure why the name is offensive to Americans. Whatever the reason I don't think most Canadians have any idea what the reference is so I doubt there is anything to this other than naming a store after some dogs.
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Shit-for-brains @16: Hope you read that post at 21.

You may want to see a doctor about that condition. It sounds painful.
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@22, Amos & Andes is a chain/franchise, whatever, that has stores in western Canada, and sells clothing from south America, where the Andes are conveniently located. (Perhaps dogs inspired the first store's name-?-but at this time they sell primarily ethnic clothing from south America.) But you knew that, right? Since you're from western Canada? And you've shopped there before? My favourite location is the one in Eau Claire market in Calgary, is that yours too?
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@21- Since I am done with Whistler for the season, can you champion the program to get them to change the store name to; Two Dead Dogs?

That would be great, thanks.
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What if they're really ugly sweaters? Like the ones Bill Cosby wore on The Cosby Show. Then it'd be more diverse. Oh wait, no it wouldn't.
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@16 after living in Alberta for a decade, I can tell you that most of the racism is not directed at Quebec. QC Gets its fair share, but, at least in Edmonton, most racism is towards immigrants and natives. Emphasis on the natives. Like sooooo hard.

The sad thing about Albertans having some sort of crazy hate against Quebec is that, ironically, the Quebecois just don't care enough about AB to hate back with equal force.
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@27 I was born in Edmonton, and there is very little racism here, and plenty of black people. The hate in Edmonton is directed at Calgary, and vice versa.

No one in Alberta gives a shit about Quebec. We're sort of just waiting for them to leave so they can stop draining the country of money for all the federally funded programs they get that no other provinces get, due to all the whining they do, and the threats of seperation.
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Blacks make up only 8% of Seattle but 14 of the 28 murders in Seattle in 2008 and 12 of the 21 murders in Seattle in 2009 were committed by blacks. Obviously we should celebrate diverseshitty and institute a tax-funded program to bring more of the wonderful civilized creatures to both Seattle and Whistler.

While implementing your diverseshitty enrichment program, why not sentence the critters to only 3 months for murder (tuba man)? It's the progressive thing to do. Then they can get out in 3 months and attack more people and spread around some more of that awesome diverseshitty for which such creatures are well- known worldwide!!!!!!!
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@16 - the Quebecois have the same attitude about Alberta.

Most of my artist high school classmates ended up in Calgary. Lots of cute pics of them wearing cowboy hats.
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@27 - it depends on where in Quebec you are, actually.
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@29: Adjust for income and background, you racist motherfucker. Black people aren't the problem; poor people in bad neighborhoods are the problem. It just so happens that blacks are disproportionately poor due to centuries of oppression at the hands of people like YOU.
I'd cut your throat just to watch you bleed, you twisted scumbag Amalekite.
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Venomlash - wow Internet tough-guy talk gets me hot! Move to a black neighborhood, whitey.
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Venomlash - wow Internet tough-guy talk gets me hot! Move to a black neighborhood, whitey.
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I don't give a fuck that they are "poor". NO EXCUSES FOR RAPE AND MURDER.
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@28, so you don't give a shit about Quebec but would like the province to separate from the rest of Canada? I'd say that's giving a shit. As a Canadian, I'm sick of the anti-Quebec sentiment from the rest of Canada. The times I've visited there, I've found Quebeckers to be friendly, nice and more than willing to speak English with me, since my French sucks - in other words, exactly the opposite of what I'd been raised to believe they are.
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@33-35: I currently live on the South Side of Chicago. In Woodlawn, which is ~95% black. And I'm no Whitey, you presumptuous dickhead; I'm a full-blooded MOT.

There are indeed no excuses for rape and murder. However, if you ADJUST FOR INCOME AND BACKGROUND like I said you should, blacks and whites will turn out to be roughly the same in terms of rapes and murders per 1000 people. You might want to read this: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/l/…

And if you come down here and lay hands on me, I will fuck you up; a Klansman is the same as a Nazi in my book. I don't need a knife for that, and frankly, I'm not sure I want to get a blade dirty on the likes of you.
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Ha ha SURE You live there, Internet tough guy. The fact that you have to "adjust for" so many factors only illuminates the insanely-high black violent crime rates even more starkly.
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@ 38-Proper yo... Humboldt Park, stuck in the N/W. It is very hard to explain to folks out here about the effects of segregation out here. As we know, well like for example um, the CHA, what a fucking train wreck of a system.

I know I will get beat up for this this, but what Chicago did with racial segregation is about the equivalent to what we did to the Indians, (not Cleavland) put all the po folk in small geographic areas and watch what happens, it doesn't matter ethnicity creed er any of that shit, there is gonna be crime. Fuck look at Granite Falls....that is white as fuck and full of criminals.
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@38: I do. And if I were so inclined, I could take a short walk and pass through some damn sketchy neighborhoods. Want me to take a picture of 63rd and Cottage Grove for you? How are income and background "so many factors"? Hell, I bet if you even just adjusted for income alone, you'd see that crime rates are about the same for blacks and whites.

I'm starting to think you're the sort of unemployed white trash that lives in trailer parks and thinks "well, at least I'm not a moderately successful black man; THAT would suck". Crawl back into your hole, you Nazi cracker.
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MMMM... The Green Line, another great example of segregation. Let's get rid of all the public transit for the po' folk.

Venomlash, you are spot on.

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