前天,加拿大五百多位学者发表公开信,谴责保守党的哈珀这些行为,认为他们已经crossed the line.
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yongbing
2015-10-13 18:56
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我为什么不选联邦保守党?--------在大选期间, 各个政党互相争论攻击是民主过程的体现。但这种攻击是由公认的标准的, 有正常的攻击,不怀好意的攻击,有下流的攻击。正常的攻击是攻击对方的执政记录、政策、说过的话。不怀好意的攻击有很多种, 下三滥的攻击是故意误导欺骗选民、捏造事实进行攻击, 或者攻击对手的长相、性别、年龄等。下流攻击遭人唾弃。 我个人也不理解为什么总理哈珀会花那么多资源用在下三滥手段上。前天,加拿大五百多位学者发表公开信,谴责保守党的这些行为,认为他们已经crossed the line. 加拿大 51网
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克 飞
2015-10-13 19:02
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587 Canadian academics condemn Harper’s racist election propaganda
587 名加拿大学者谴责哈珀的种族主义竞选宣传!
“We condemn the unethical Conservative strategy that brings shame to Canadian politics.”“我们谴责保守党的不道德的策略,他们给加拿大政治带来羞耻”
by: Various Authors
Posted Oct 9, 2015We are a diverse group of academics with different political views and different political allegiances. We are united by a common interest in the integrity of democratic processes and a concern about the ugly and dangerous turn we have recently witnessed in the election campaign. In democratic electoral politics there is an ethical line that distinguishes spirited partisan strategy from cynical tactics that betray the values of mutual respect and toleration that lie at the heart of civil democratic discourse. Honourable politicians do not cross that line even when they think doing so will be politically advantageous. Disreputable politicians ignore the line when they find it convenient to do so.The Conservative Party under Stephen Harper has already come perilously close to this line by suggesting that religion is an appropriate basis to select refugees and by fanning fears of terrorism as a pretext for revoking citizenship from some Canadians. Distinguishing ‘old-stock’ Canadians from new ones was also divisive and problematic. Increasingly, the Conservatives seem to have been opting for a particularly nasty form of “wedge politics”.However, by injecting the inflammatory rhetoric of ‘barbaric cultural practices’ into the current campaign, the Conservative Party has flagrantly crossed the line. The repeated use of this phrase along with a proposed tip line to root out undesirables are cynically calculated to distract and divide citizens by insinuating that some law abiding and peaceful members of the community are freedom-hating barbarians who threaten Canadian society. The Conservatives know that Canada faces no such threat and that the vast majority of citizens, irrespective of their religious commitments or cultural backgrounds, embrace the basic rights and liberties upon which our democracy is based. By conjuring up a phantom menace to the country and implying that some immigrants and religious minorities are enemies, the Conservatives hope to pit Canadians against one another. Like many sophisticated forms of vicious propaganda, the invocation of barbarism is meant to create fear and anxiety rather than to identify a real problem.We enjoy the rule of law in Canada and it requires the equal application of the law. Those who break the law should be treated within a common system of criminal justice. A special mechanism that targets some minorities for extra scrutiny is as unnecessary as it is odious. The devious strategists who have devised this campaign know that their objectives are not well served by employing racist or anti-religious epithets, so they ask us to imagine unspecified but supposedly real barbarians. So we are encouraged to demonize those who are different from ourselves and whose religious or cultural practices we do not share or understand. In the present context, this is hate mongering, and it has no place in Canadian democracy.We do not deny that there is room to discuss and debate how contemporary democracies should respond to religious, cultural and linguistic pluralism. Indeed, Canadian legal and political theory is at the forefront of exploring such matters. But a common point of departure for these debates and discussions is a commitment to civility, decency and toleration. Toleration does not require that one like or endorse the cultural or religious practices of others, but it does require that we refrain from insulting the dignity of those with whom we disagree. The Conservatives have shown contempt for a politics of mutual respect. We condemn the unethical Conservative strategy that brings shame to Canadian politics. We hope that Canadians will join us in repudiating the politics of hate. Instead let us embrace a nobler vision of civil discourse that is truly oriented to achieving the common good for all Canadians.Signed,Daniel Weinstock, Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Colin Macleod, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Law, Victoria University
Jocelyn Maclure, Professeur, Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval
Avigail Eisenberg, Professor, Department of Political Science, Victoria UniversityAt time of posting, 587 individuals had signed this letter. See full list of signatories here.
http://www.canadianprogressiveworld.com/2015/10/09/587-canadian-academics-condemn-harpers-racist-election-propaganda/
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yongbing
2015-10-13 18:51
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我为什么不选联邦保守党?--------哈珀他作为国家领导人有一项基本的任务, 就是尽量团结这个国家的人民。这次选举哈珀他的目标是niqab ban 。这次的niqab ban 则是利用把选民对恐怖分子的仇恨,转移到对身边穆斯林妇女身上。
投票仅剩数天 我为什么不选联邦保守党?