Radio-Canada's woke mandate
You think I'm exaggerating when I say that white, straight, physically healthy men are disappearing in our media-cultural system? That their productions are far from being priorities for our institutions?
However, we have had further proof of this recently.
INTERSECTIONALITY
On June 22, the CRTC renewed the CBC's licences for the next five years with new requirements
The organization requires: "A fixed portion of independent programming expenditures devoted to programming produced by Indigenous peoples, official language minority communities (OLMCs), racialized Canadians, Canadians with disabilities and Canadians who self-identify with the LGBTQ2 community."
What this means is that producers will be chosen based on what is happening in their bedroom, their physical abilities, their language, the colour of their skin or their ethnic origins (Indigenous or non-Indigenous).
However, we have had further proof of this recently.
INTERSECTIONALITY
On June 22, the CRTC renewed the CBC's licences for the next five years with new requirements
The organization requires: "A fixed portion of independent programming expenditures devoted to programming produced by Indigenous peoples, official language minority communities (OLMCs), racialized Canadians, Canadians with disabilities and Canadians who self-identify with the LGBTQ2 community."
What this means is that producers will be chosen based on what is happening in their bedroom, their physical abilities, their language, the colour of their skin or their ethnic origins (Indigenous or non-Indigenous).
And that's not all.
The CRTC requires: "an 'intersectionality credit for women' to encourage spending on productions produced by Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, and people who self-identify with the LGBTQ2 community, and who also self-identify as women."
In other words, in TV and radio bingo, you score more points if you are a woman (sorry, if you self-identify as a woman) in addition to earning points if you are Innu, Senegalese, paraplegic or if you are non-binary queer (sorry, if you self-identify as non-binary queer).
But if you were born into a red-haired guy body from Shawinigan, if you've been sleeping with the same woman for 20 years and you have both arms and legs, you go down to the bottom of the list.
If you are told that you only have to "self-identify" as a member of a minority to benefit from priority treatment,
do you not think that this opens the door to many "self-identifications"?
ANGLO/FRANCO
Still on the subject of the CRTC... As you know, the Commission demanded a public apology from radio-Canada for "disrespectful and sensitive" in a radio column where the title of the white negroes of America was uttered four times.
You also know that Radio-Canada apologized but appealed the decision.
But you may not know that on August 4, all CBC employees received an email from Nicholas Davis, Executive Director of Equity and Inclusion. Mr. Davis, who is black, says there is no context that allows the use of the word "n."
He adds: "If colleagues or members of the public tell us that the use of this word is harmful, out of simple respect for our colleagues and the public, we must listen to them and do better. And under no circumstances should we appeal a CRTC decision about that word."
On the French side (Radio-Canada), there is concern about the CRTC's interference.
On the Anglo side (CBC), a director says that we should not go to appeal.
You said: two solitudes?
The CRTC requires: "an 'intersectionality credit for women' to encourage spending on productions produced by Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, and people who self-identify with the LGBTQ2 community, and who also self-identify as women."
In other words, in TV and radio bingo, you score more points if you are a woman (sorry, if you self-identify as a woman) in addition to earning points if you are Innu, Senegalese, paraplegic or if you are non-binary queer (sorry, if you self-identify as non-binary queer).
But if you were born into a red-haired guy body from Shawinigan, if you've been sleeping with the same woman for 20 years and you have both arms and legs, you go down to the bottom of the list.
If you are told that you only have to "self-identify" as a member of a minority to benefit from priority treatment,
do you not think that this opens the door to many "self-identifications"?
ANGLO/FRANCO
Still on the subject of the CRTC... As you know, the Commission demanded a public apology from radio-Canada for "disrespectful and sensitive" in a radio column where the title of the white negroes of America was uttered four times.
You also know that Radio-Canada apologized but appealed the decision.
But you may not know that on August 4, all CBC employees received an email from Nicholas Davis, Executive Director of Equity and Inclusion. Mr. Davis, who is black, says there is no context that allows the use of the word "n."
He adds: "If colleagues or members of the public tell us that the use of this word is harmful, out of simple respect for our colleagues and the public, we must listen to them and do better. And under no circumstances should we appeal a CRTC decision about that word."
On the French side (Radio-Canada), there is concern about the CRTC's interference.
On the Anglo side (CBC), a director says that we should not go to appeal.
You said: two solitudes?