Commentary
The other day I happened to have commercial dealings with a guy whose name and accent made clear he was from Russia. So here’s what I told him about the invasion of Ukraine: nothing. Not because I don’t care about Ukraine. I do, on humanitarian and strategic grounds. The reason I didn’t give Boris what-for (and don’t use his real name here) is that he’s not Vladimir Putin, RT, or “Russian.” He’s Canadian.
Our official policy of multiculturalism somehow managed to make judging people by ethnic origin sound virtuous and inclusive. And lately we’ve redefined “inclusion” to mean “exclusion,” especially of anyone who doesn’t use PoC or “person of colour” not as a physical description but a metaphysical one. But we shouldn’t.
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