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[Hazu]

Being link for the video : http://www.cliqueduplateau.com/2017/06/24/ca-cest-extremement-genant/

Not just if this was in Quebec City or Montreal, but everything in this video just looks so wrong.

I'm just speechless right now.. and ashamed of being a Quebecer. :/

Organizers response :

TLDR the organizers defended themselves by saying the cart pushers were a sport team (as if it means anything)

 

[Mr.Mike]

Far Cry 5?

 

[Username1198]

Ummmmmmmmmm

Huh

I............

 

[Slayven]

I am going to need some context, but at first loook.........whoooooaa

 

[Tecnniqe]

Is there a non Facebook link?

 

[CSJ]

For a second looked like a bunch of Guilty Remnant.

 

[Reverend Funk]

huh

 

[psyfi]

Can someone summarize? I don't have FB.

 

[demosthenes]

Context?

 

[Slayven]

Can someone summarize? I don't have FB.

Black people in potato sacks pushing a float with a singing woman, and a bunch of white people in white singing and dancing around them

 

[TimeEffect]

Can someone summarize? I don't have FB.

Bunch of white people in a parade... and then black dudes in slave gear, pushing a float...on the float is a white woman singing

 

[Mr.Mike]

Are these the values they want a charter to protect?

 

[Username1198]

Can someone summarize? I don't have FB.

There's a float being pushed by minorities.

Whose on the float? A bunch of white people dressed in white followed by more white people dressed in all white singing what I can only imagine is a unifying song for all people!
The floats being pushed by two black men and what looks like an Asian man? I think?

 

[Soapbox Killer]

One could hope the is simple irony but it does look really suspect.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Context?

Today is the Québec national holiday (St-Jean-Baptiste) so there are parades all around.

But this is.. uh.... I've never seen anything like this, ever. Tone-deaf doesn't even begin to describe it. WTF?

 

[Van Bur3n]

Le what?

 

[Alienous]

Worse than Trump?

 

[Hazu]

Is there a non Facebook link?

Trying to find one, will update as soon as I find one.

Edit : Got one : http://www.cliqueduplateau.com/2017/06/24/ca-cest-extremement-genant/

 

[Trace]

Can someone summarize? I don't have FB.

A float with a woman in a blue dress singing in french, with a map on the back of the float, with the float being pushed by 4 black people in dirty brown clothing, with a crowd of white people in white clothing walking behind them.

 

[Muffin1611]

What the fuck. I'm gonna need more information on this. Especially why the black dudes volunteered to help with that.

 

[MrToughPants]

Diversity parade with two black people pushing the float while white people sing in the parade. There is a white guy? pushing the float too.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Oh.

 

[PaulExcellent]

It's pretty easy to throw a parade.
It's also pretty easy to be a waste of oxygen.

 

[Master Of Illusion]

Can someone summarize? I don't have FB.

Four black guys in rags push a singer on a float. There's a crowd of people who look like they came straight from that cult in Bioshock Infinite dressed in white following it while slow dancing to what sounds like a knock-off Celine Dion song.

 

[Tecnniqe]

Trying to find one, will update as soon as I find one.

Edit : Got one : http://www.cliqueduplateau.com/2017/06/24/ca-cest-extremement-genant/

What the fuck

 

[Username1198]

The singers have shit eating grins on heir faces too, like they know what their doing.

 

[Ether_Snake]

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1041590/defile-fete-nationale-quebec-souligne-375-ans-montreal

This article doesn't even mention it, says it was "the opening" of the parade by some signer, and never even mentions how weird that was even though the pictures are in the article.

Usually those things aren't even pushed by people, they're motorized. This was probably done deliberately, for whatever reason. I'm going to assume someone thought that having minorities push the cart was "inclusive", showing how they are contributing to society.

 

[excelsiorlef]

The whole thing looks like a very racist's musical dream... the way they all move in sync and shit.... surreal as fuck.

 

[Username1198]

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1041590/defile-fete-nationale-quebec-souligne-375-ans-montreal

This article doesn't even mention it, says it was "the opening" of the parade by some signer, and never even mentions how weird that was even though the pictures are in the article.

Usually those things aren't even pushed by people, they're motorized. This was probably done deliberately, for whatever reason. I'm going to assume someone thought that having minorities push the cart was "inclusive", showing how they are contributing to society.

Damn good point.

Ok so yea, I don't think we need anymore context.

Is that parade racist?

Yes, fuck yes it is.

 

[jaypah]

EVERYTHING about this is super fucking creepy.

 

[aliengmr]

It looks bad, but then I don't understand the context of what I'm seeing. For all I know it means the opposite of what I am seeing.

Posting a video like that without any explanation is rather frustrating.

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

Uh...
Well, that was puzzling and extremely surreal. I hope I'm missing some context here.

 

[Hazu]

It looks bad, but then I don't understand the context of what I'm seeing. For all I know it means the opposite of what I am seeing.

Posting a video like that without any explanation is rather frustrating.

I'll update my first post once I have more information but I haven't seen anything to justify it so far.

And to be honest, I can't think of a single good reason to have that kind of stuff. :/

 

[PdotMichael]

The founding of a nation carried by slaves something something

 

[Maxinas]

I'd understand if it was supposed to be a reenactment of some kind for historical reasons, but doesn't seem like it at all.

 

[Epsilon-delta]

Wtf is this shit?!

Don't need people to push a float but whatever, let's be racist.

 

[SpiceMelange]

As someone from Quebec city, I have nothing. This is indefensible. Very embarrassing and tone deaf.

 

[Jenov]

The loud squeaky wheels of the float add to the absurdity.

 

[mr2xxx]

Get Out sequel already filming.

 

[wandering]

I mean, the fact that they're wearing dirty rags while everyone else is dressed in clean white makes it hard to imagine any context in which this image isn't unsettling.

 

[excelsiorlef]

If you told me this was a scene being filmed for the Canadian remake of Get Out I'd believe you.

 

[Loudninja]

I have no idea what else this can be what the hell.

 

[Morat]

That's just bizzarre

 

[chadskin]

The Leftovers bonus episode?

 

[Ether_Snake]

The founding of a nation carried by slaves something something

Wrong country. It makes no historical sense. I really think that on paper they thought they would have minorities push the float to represent how minorities contribute through hard work, but it was probably a footnote, they didn't visualize how everyone else would be white. This was probably organized by people who don't know much at all, and worst probably by people who consider themselves progressives.

The opened book behind the piano player is saying "once upon a time" and seems to show a map of Montreal. Makes no sense.

 

[richiek]

Quebec huh...

 

[D i Z]

I'm cool. You can keep it. Thanks though.

 

[Jackpot]

 

[ItIsOkBro]

i know how it looks but they would have voted for obama for a third term if they could

 

[SpiceMelange]

Les organisateurs de la fête nationale à Montréal se sont défendus sur Facebook en disant que les chars étaient poussés par une équipe sportive. « Nous voulons simplement clarifier cette situation : sachez que tous les chars allégoriques roulants sont poussés par l’équipe sportive de l’école Louis-Joseph Papineau de Montréal », écrivait sur Facebook la page La Fête nationale du Québec à Montréal.

TLDR the organizers defended themselves by saying the cart pushers were a sport team (as if it means anything)