Racism Watchdog is one of my favorite follows. Every time I get a Woof notification I start tingling.

What are some good off the beaten path cities/places in Canada? I’m honestly pretty ignorant; we visited Vancouver and loved it and would move there in a heartbeat but it’s pretty hard to get residency in Canada from what I can tell (already tried applying once) and if we are serious we might have to go somewhere more in need of workers. I’m cool living somewhere relatively small as long as I can get internet and good services for my kiddo.

I'm from Ontario and love it here, so I'm biased but that's the province I know best: Kitchener-Waterloo, Oakville, Ottawa, Muskoka, and North Bay. Fredericton and Saint John New Brunswick, Quebec City Quebec, Kamloops and Nanaimo British Columbia.

your worst choice in canada beats most places best choice. apply everywhere, be delighted if one sticks.

Vancouver and the immediate area is ridic expensive. Like worse than the Bay Area. Victoria is a little better but on first pass of checking the schools seem to be rated low in the areas that are “affordable”. I don’t know what the rating system is really or how relevant the points are and plan to ask people who actually have kids in school what they think about them. Some of the smaller towns on the island are in line with California for prices. There are also other areas on the mainland that require a ferry from Vancouver that get more affordable the more remote they get, but even those are not cheap and we are talking pretty remote in some cases. I’m busy trying to imagine the transition while I’m vacationing this week. I grew up in a tiny beach town on the coast here and am reliving my pretty ideal childhood as I visit this week with my kids, but I went stir crazy when I hit puberty for sure.

Still hoping for this blue wave we keep hearing about so I can stick with plan a for a while.

victoria area schools are excellent. far far better than USA schools.

disclmr; i teach in victoria and attended grade school in connecticut and wisconsin.

That’s good to know. FWIW, the school my daughter goes to in Sacramento is really great. Can I pm you for details at some point?

This is a pretty good scam

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fe...lywood-1125932

Random q: "Mulatto" is reasonably offensive in the US, right? I was kind of surprised to have a lady use it to me last night. She was black tho, so maybe it's one of those things like the n-word where she gets a pass?

Edit: to clarify, the lady used it in conversation (to describe an NBA player), she didn't use it AT me, I am as white as they come.

I think if she is black, then she gets a pass. That's just my hunch, though. I'm definitely not sure if she can expect a pass in every casual conversation.

Hopefully, some of the experts will chime in.

Mulatto is offensive in USA#1 like "colored" is offensive. Like, it used to be a relatively polite way to refer to certain folks but is now just used by olds in ways that make their grandchildren cringe. If it is used by a non-old it should be regarded as highly offensive, or, if by a young black person, likely ironic.

Calling someone a Mulatto is def wrong if you're not Black and probably still off if you are, but it's not like the n-word.

You guys should definitely move to Ontario. Our new premier was sworn in two weeks ago and he's already gutted all our green programs, made cuts to health care, cancelled a police oversight law, rolled back the sex ed curriculum to what it was in 1998, and announced wrt immigration that we need to look after our own first. Plus we've got Jordan Peterson. Americans will feel right at home.

can you call folks mulattoes?

asking for a friend

Offensive, yes, but honestly it's really more confusing than anything else because "mulatto" is an archaic 19th century bit of terminology that almost much no one uses anymore. I think most people in the US wouldn't even know what you're talking about if you called someone a mulatto. Maybe there are pockets of people in the South that preserve this bit of cultural memory.

Was this woman 90+ years of age?

Yeah that was my reaction, I was like "that word is a thing? Surely that's considered offensive by now" so I looked it up and the dictionary said (dated, offensive) so I asked here. It's possible I wouldn't know the word if it weren't for Smells Like Teen Spirit. She obviously didn't mean anything by it, she was being descriptive. Trying to get me to identify an NBA player whose name shed forgotten and she was like "I think he's a mulatto". I couldn't work it out, she said he "beat LeBron in the playoffs" whatever that means.

I didn't see her that clearly, she was driving my cab, but I'd guess she was in her 50s.

She was probably talking about Steph Curry

Yeah. She also said his name started with a J but was probably just wrong about that.

Was she Latin American/Carribean? The mixtures of Black, European, and Native American are talked about differently in different places.

****ing Manny Pacquiao thanked Rodrigo Duterte after winning his fight.

How depressing. Imagine a fighter thanking Donald Trump after winning a fight only worse since Trump hasn't murdered people, isn't extrajudicially killing people and then sprinkling crack on them afterwards to justify it and has never openly regretted not taking part in opportunities to rape women and get away with it.

I've heard mix raced black people describe themselves as mulatto as an in joke, but no one else describe someone that way.

I guess it is a spoiler so don’t watch?

https://mobile.twitter.com/NBCNews/s...91231179689984

Take that Elon musk haters.

No, he bragged about that one.