Logical. Unlikely that CBC would run this story. Whenever CBC news comes up on my YouTube, there's the white woman, the gay man, the brown man, the black man, the brown woman with the hijab, the brown woman without the hijab, etc... as if they checked off every single box possible. Great success.
I was scrolling through Crave last night looking for a new show and wondered why every fourth or fifth show was centred around an LGBTQ2S+ theme? Less than 5% of the population right? Maybe there is overrepresentation in the entertainment industry? And by the logic of the first article, time to skew the votes...
I was talking to a good friend of mine about all this stuff - racism, representation, equality, etc... He's black, muslim, came here from Sierra Leone in his teens - was one of the lucky ones to be able to leave before getting slashed by a machete - wealthy family with connections helped. I came from the Middle East in my teens - one of the lucky ones too - middle class family, open minded parents, no war/civil war to deal with in my childhood thankfully.
We're both doing just fine mainly because of the wealth of our families that put us in an advantageous position. Nothing to do with our skin colour, religion or sexual orientation. Did we miss out on a few interviews because our names were too hard to pronounce? Possibly... But it hasn't hindered our careers and we've more often than not been judged by our competence at work than anything else. And we might get the odd joke in poor taste like, "make sure you have your TTC track training card on you or they'll think you're out there at track level planting a bomb"... And so what? We can all take a bit of banter can't we? It didn't hurt my feelings as much as a machete or AK47 would...
In my opinion, all this focus on surface level crap just creates division. Logical people dismiss it and emotional people get riled up. I once asked a friend (social worker) to listen to something Jordan Peterson had said and tell me what she thought about it. She was disgusted... "He's a horrible man", she said. Why? She hadn't listened to anything he said. She just didn't like how he said it...
If we truly want to give people a chance to thrive, we have to go back to the fundamental social issues that don't get much press...