Kennedy Stewart has launched a full broadside of racist and \u0027hyper\u002Dcolonial\u0027 accusations at the electoral system
It would be fair knowing this for the reader to ask if my words are merely sour grapes for a tight election loss. I cannot, of course, prevent anyone from thinking that, but I would just say that my belief is and has always been that in defeat one must behave in a dignified manner and elected representatives all the more so. I personally congratulated Stewart in 2015 and long tried to view that night as a one-off in bad behaviour.
On its own, this is perhaps all somewhat of a tempest in a west coast teapot. I would argue, however, that the playbook of tossing around serious accusations of discrimination when things don’t go your way is becoming all too common in our political world.
For one, screaming racism at a system which regularly elects people of all races, genders and sexual orientations just looks stupid. Second, accusations of that type make a mockery of the real, actual racism and discrimination which continues to plague the world. Calling Vancouver’s electoral system racist is to define racism and discrimination as merely “something happened that I disagree with” rather than the actual definition of devaluing people based solely on the colour of their skin.
To invoke racism as Kennedy Stewart and his team have once again done to apparently explain away their failures in the municipal election makes a mockery of those in this country who have faced real, hateful discrimination and compares their trials with a meaningless, petty spat while gazing down from an ivory tower.
It is high time that Kennedy Stewart and all his ilk who claim to speak for the vulnerable to start taking the responsibility seriously and not as an opportunity to fling around accusations with real significance and meaning as though they were cheap toys at a party for spoiled children.Adam Pankratz is a lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. He was the Liberal candidate for Burnaby South in the 2015 federal election.
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