{"id":72,"date":"2018-03-16T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:47:16","slug":"check-your-privilege-and-be-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/2018\/03\/16\/check-your-privilege-and-be-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Check your privilege and be quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To be effective, justice must be blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And our government should be too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way to solve the injustices of the past is not to create new categories on which to base discrimination.&nbsp;<strong>It\u2019s to treat all citizens equally.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s not what the Liberals are doing. They recently tabled a budget where money is allocated on the basis of \u201cintersectional race, gender and sexual identities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re creating more division and more injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when I called them out on it, I was told to \u201ccheck my privilege and be quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This wasn\u2019t just another troll on the internet. It came from a Liberal Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are people in this government who believe my opinion is less valid because I\u2019m a white man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They believe the government should segregate people based on their gender and skin colour and treat them differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Help me fight this radical ideology.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I believe the government should be blind. And that it should work to the benefit of all its citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191023095849\/https:\/\/donate.conservative.ca\/en\/donate-maximebernier\/\" target=\"_blank\">If you\u2019re with me, click here to donate $2<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For freedom. And equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<br>-Maxime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be effective, justice must be blind. And our government should be too. The way to solve the injustices of the past is not to create new categories on which to base discrimination.&nbsp;It\u2019s to treat all citizens equally. That\u2019s not what the Liberals are doing. They recently tabled a budget where money is allocated on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}