01 September 2019

Macpherson: Why Mathieu Bock-Côté matters in Quebec

The nationalism he advocates is neither racial nor, technically, ethnic. It is cultural, with a place for only one culture.

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/macpherson-why-mathieu-bock-cote-matters-in-quebec?fbclid=IwAR28gxXlDb0eKWSgsWKvN24aIENdn-kJRhYEPyBMijv8q1lncOcjueBRi3U

In a book recently plugged by the premier of Quebec, a reader was startled to see an apology for defenders of symbols of an American pre-Civil War Southern “civilization” built on the whip-scarred backs of black plantation slaves.

Among these defenders, in their 2017 Charlottesville “confrontation” with “extreme-left militants” to which author Mathieu Bock-Côté refers, were neo-Nazis ...

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