My folks had much to do with Edmonton "Silly hall" back in the 70's and 80's, Through their social contacts, my folks knew a journalist who did a story on neo Nazis in Alberta. The journalist answered his door one evening and was assaulted by a skin head type fellow, the assault cost him vision in one of his eyes.. From what I have heard, that type of thinking is still rampant in Alberta. I worked for a pressure vessel company about 8 or 9 years ago and while there, I saw much antisemitism and KKK stuff written on the stalls in the washroom.
It's nice to see many posts that degrade that type of attitude, but I think we are only fooling ourselves by thinking that all of that is gone.
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