Advocacy group calls for critical thinking on language amid whiteout celebrations - Winnipeg Jets "White Out" parties are somehow problematic

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https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/advocac...language-amid-whiteout-celebrations-1.4376649

Advocacy group calls for critical thinking on language amid whiteout celebrations

Gabrielle Marchand speaks with an advocacy group about why the Whiteout might not be inclusive for everyone.

A Winnipeg advocacy group is sparking a conversation about the term “whiteout” and associated celebrations in the city. Black Space Winnipeg says it wants people to think about language and the impact words have, going on to say the whiteout might not feel like an inclusive space for everyone.
Black Space Winnipeg works to build inclusivity and promotes education and awareness around anti-black racism. Black Space Winnipeg founder Alexa Potashnik lives downtown and is familiar with playoff revelry, saying she saw it up close last year.
“Obviously having a party, having a good time. But there were also a lot of moments that were not so pleasant, either people were really intoxicated or racial slurs were being thrown around,” said Potashnik.

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File image of a whiteout crowd in 2018.

After seeing a headline online this week, Potashnik says she watched videos of past fandom and thought about the imagery.
“I understand that they want to celebrate the Jets culture and Jets tradition, but in a lot of ways it still makes a lot of people of colour, of marginalized groups not feel safe in those spaces,” said Potashnik.
“You’re moving through thousands of people: it’s all white, this sea of white that floods the streets of Winnipeg. If you’re socially and racially conscious that’s going to trigger a lot of people.”
Potashnik ended up posting about it online and said she was immediately met with backlash and defensiveness. She’d like to see the term whiteout changed, but said she doesn’t expect that to happen.
Potashnik said she’d like to see people think critically and talk about creating a more inclusive atmosphere.
The whiteout was created in 1987 during the playoffs as a way to engage fans. At the time Calgary Flames fans would wear red, filling their arena in the colour.
University of Manitoba sociology professor Lori Wilkinson said while people might not have had conversations about the language at that time, it doesn’t mean they can’t have them now.
“This gives us a chance to talk about how our words have meaning that we might not be thinking about at the time when we’re using them,” said Wilkinson.
“In the English language and in North America we often talk about good things being white and bad things being black. Why do we have the word blackmail? Why isn’t it whitemail? Or we talk about the black sheep of the family versus the white knight that comes in and rescues you.”
Wilkinson also said it serves as an educational moment when people can develop understanding and perspective they might not normally have.
CTV News reached out to True North Sports + Entertainment but did not hear back.

 

[SigSauer]

The left has become a mockery of itself. We don't even need to make memes of them anymore, because now they're just walking memes.

"Hockey is racist"

Would they ever say Boxing, Football or Basketball is racist because blacks dominate those sports? What about running? Some sports white people are naturally good at while other sports chicken wing eating players are naturally better at. Just fuck off, leftists.

 

[666DEATHGAY]

Mayocide when?

 

[Night Terror]

i thought hockey fans just wanted to see fights?

 

[RG 448]

“Black Space Winnipeg” isn’t an inclusive name.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

This is nothing new. 20 years ago or so I remember some woke person reeeeeing about how the words "blackmail" and "blackballed" were problematic.

In fact, even though their derivations are entirely different and have nothing to do with race or racialism or anything, people steer clear of words like "niggardly" (i.e. being a miser) in case they're misheard.

 

[KeyserBroze]

So a group called "Black Space Winnipeg" is saying it "wants people to think about language and the impact words have" it wants an "inclusive space for everyone"

Hmmm

“In the English language and in North America we often talk about good things being white and bad things being black. Why do we have the word blackmail? Why isn’t it whitemail? Or we talk about the black sheep of the family versus the white knight that comes in and rescues you.”

Next time you create and spread the universal language then.

 

[Kalishnakov]

More from the warped leftist shit stirring sociology departments on controlling speech and making a mountain out of a mole hill.
The media just spews the same old refrain.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

And they wonder why people left the left or they feel like the left left them.... ?

More from the warped leftist shit stirring sociology departments on controlling speech and making a mountain out of a mole hill.
The media just spews the same old refrain.

Yeah, like a old scratched vinyl record....

 

[Rogue Boob]

Black Space Winnipeg

I don't know a lot about Canuckistan, but it's Winnipeg. If they shipped all the white people out, wouldn't it be more of a Blank Space?

 

[Megaroad]

Always hearing from a friend up there who participates in reeeeeeeset era hockey discords how much people sperge out over the racism in hockey and in particular how he's a Nazi for liking ancient retired players who speak their minds.

Dunno why he subjects himself to it.

 

[Kalishnakov]

And they wonder why people left the left or they feel like the left left them.... ?


Yeah, like a old scratched vinyl record....

Nothing to wonder about.
The "left" doesn't leave, it follows around like a really bad smell.

 

[spiritofamermaid]

“In the English language and in North America we often talk about good things being white and bad things being black. Why do we have the word blackmail? Why isn’t it whitemail? Or we talk about the black sheep of the family versus the white knight that comes in and rescues you.”

Um maybe because of neoplatonism, which is a huge influence on early Christianity as well as the Renaissance? And consequently Western culture as a whole? Nah, it's obviously racism. No other answer.

I thought it was Gnosticism that tied dark=evil and light=good, but apparently not only was that not true but it goes as far back as ancient times.

Neoplatonism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Black-and-white dualism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also

>sociology professor
>doesn't think about the linguistics of words and immediately ascribes racism

The absolute state of education.

 

[verissimus]

For a moment, I read the title of this thread as "Honkey Fans Are Racist". Guess it's still a little early for me.

 

[Diesel Boogaloo]

The left has become a mockery of itself. We don't even need to make memes of them anymore, because now they're just walking memes.

"Hockey is racist"

Would they ever say Boxing, Football or Basketball is racist because blacks dominate those sports? What about running? Some sports white people are naturally good at while other sports chicken wing eating players are naturally better at. Just fuck off, leftists.

Everything is racist.
Also, everything is sexist – except for Islam.

 

[AssRock]

This reminds me of the time a Texas politician wanted to change the term "black hole" because it was apparently racist.

Fortunately, a lot of people seem to be telling off these chodes, many, many black people included. If there's one thing you don't fuck around with, it's Canadians and their hockey.

 

[Pargon]

This reminds me of the time a Texas politician wanted to change the term "black hole" because it was apparently racist.

Fortunately, a lot of people seem to be telling off these chodes, many, many black people included. If there's one thing you don't fuck around with, it's Canadians and their hockey.

One of their human rights tribunals ruled that it was a crime to refer to a troon as their coercively-assigned pronouns. They're capable of any level of cultural or logical upheaval at this point. The rats are leaping off the sinking ship.

 

[Kalishnakov]

One of their human rights tribunals ruled that it was a crime to refer to a troon as their coercively-assigned pronouns. They're capable of any level of cultural or logical upheaval at this point. The rats are leaping off the sinking ship.

With the idiot at the helm in Canuckistan, it's gone from bad to full blown retard.
Jordan Peterson, Canadian has been fighting that idiocy, and is fortunate that he has not been 'de-platformed'...yet.

 

[SigSauer]

Everything is racist.
Also, everything is sexist – except for Islam.

Muslims - throw gays off rooftops, rape women, make them cover up and become slaves to their husbands, beat women as well as keeping African slaves.
Liberals - thinks a Christian bakery that refuses to make a cake for a gay couple is “real oppression” / wants to smash the patriarchy and “systemic racism.”
Also liberals - thinks Muslims are the “oppressed” ones because they’re shitskins.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

The only good thing Canada has is their hockey and it's also their only salvation. Canadians beating each other up in name of a sport and then going out trashing the city is the consequence of living in a country that hates itself. Think of Canada as a man who has a wife and seven daughters... you can't blame him if he occasionally hides in the basement to watch football and scratch his balls.