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- From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
- Newsgroups: can.politics,soc.culture.canada
- Subject: Re: Americans on English schools in Quebec (Was: Quebec)
- Message-ID: <13572@grayt>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:05:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.214602.29124@cerberus.ulaval.ca> <13533@grayt> <BxxBE9.BCA@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
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- In article <BxxBE9.BCA@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
- >In article <13533@grayt> grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes:
- >>Now here is another example for the "Thank You Mr. Clark" file.
- >>This person is a perfect example (as if we needed another after
- >>Beauregard and Schuck) of someone living in ignorant certainty.
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- >Selective list? I don't feel as an ignorant certain, but I feel
- >that you often are.
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- I freely admit to ignorance about many things. I freely admit to partial
- knowledge of fewer things. I will not admit to certainty.
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- Certainty is direct indicator of error. You were certian that the dreaded
- English exploited the helpless French in Canada before Confederation. When your
- error was pointed out to you, did it change your view? No it only
- seemed to confirm you in your myth of oppression.
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- Now this completely apropos of the topic being discussed. Regional isolation of
- groups as proposed by Clark in his "Community of Communities" proposal will
- foster ignorance. Myths such as the absence of French schooling in CSQ or
- the exploitation of BC by a fictional Central Canada will
- spring up. Out of these myths will spring certainty. Certainty breeds
- intolerance.
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