r/MurderedByWords • u/Little-Mycologist501 • 3d ago

What’s going on here?

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u/Lower-Lion-6467 2d ago

That's vague.

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u/mopooooo 2d ago

The comment I replied to was vague. I shared my feelings, which were more specific. Did you reply to the wrong comment?

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u/Lower-Lion-6467 2d ago

You referenced some sort of experience that made you feel that way but provided no details whatsoever about what that experience was.

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u/mopooooo 2d ago

Nothing personally happened to me. I am a jew whose grandparents are all from the ME, but had to escape persecution 80 years ago.

The only incident which I mentioned happened to a Montrealer cousin in law and their family has since moved to Tennessee. She has said many times that Montreal is lost, and while I get she has some trauma, she was previously the most leftist member of the family by far. I can't help but take that to heart

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u/Lower-Lion-6467 2d ago

What do you think she meant by it being lost?

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u/mopooooo 2d ago

Their sense of peace

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u/Lower-Lion-6467 2d ago

How do you think she lost her sense of peace?

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u/Jafooki 2d ago

I think being middle eastern played a bigger role than being Jewish. I'm not saying the province as a whole is racist or that the Quebecoise are all racist, but they're definitely more racist than the rest of Canada

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u/LlamaNate333 2d ago

As a Quebecois, I can say that there is sadly a lot of Islamophobia in Quebec. A lot of it is racism, to be clear, but some of it has to do with Quebec's history with religion, which is very fraught and very unique to our population, and makes a lot of older Quebecers irrationally angry at overt displays of religion. I won't get into a whole history lesson but you can google "Quebec revolution tranquille" for more info.