As a throwaway joke. Because Canadians are soooo famously shitty that being even half-Canadian must be a great blot on one’s character… That’s why Canadians wear American flag patches on their bags when they travel overseas, I’m sure.
Really, no need for a gods-damned lecture. Especially not the bit on growing up in South Africa.
I will just note, as a multiracial South African also “born a crime” but more than a decade before, that it’s amusing Noah has made quite a lot of hay out of a circumstance that persisted for literally only the first year of his life.
It was a joke? It sounded to me more like the kind of nitpicking that someone does when they don’t have an actual argument. Followed later by the famous “it was just a joke” remark that we hear from the Trumps and Elmos of the world when confronted by the indisputable record of their own idiotic remarks. I thought you were better than that.
I have no idea whether this is some bizarre form of sarcasm or you’re just delusional.
My simple point is that the birthplace of Elmo’s mother is absolutely irrelevant to any discussion of his background. Whatever point you thought you were making is … rather opaque.
Not true. Working back through the various comments, it seems I was overly sensitized to the “half-Canadian” comment as either a defense of Elmo – a person I have come to despise – or an attribution of his eccentricities to my homeland, which has no such attributes at least in recent history.
So yes, it appears I was overly sensitive and misinterpreted that remark. No ass-covering. I fucked up. Hey, I hate Elmo, I love Canada – so sue me!
I have no love of him either, trust me. Even if I corrected a couple factual errors about his background in this thread, I’m pretty sure his upbringing has a lot to do with his personality.
And even though I’ve never been, all the Canadians I know are great people.
Sorry I was overly abusive there. I think I was on edge from an actual asshole trying to tone police me in GD earlier today.
As sarcasm (which I assume that was), this comment is consistent with my personal experience as an American living in majority Islamic countries (Indonesia and Egypt) from 1993 to 2018.
A lot of Americans I knew chose to (falsely) identify as Canadian if asked their nationality by the locals. I understood the sentiment, and sympathized. But, I’m also chronically honest. When Indonesians or Egyptians asked me where I was from, I always told the truth, even when I felt ashamed.
That’s why Canadians wear American flag patches on their bags when they travel overseas, I’m sure.
