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  1. kool maudit
    it feels like this argument is getting to its 6th or 7th beer now.
  2. kool maudit
    i didn't accuse you of being a racial/ethnic/nationalist bigot, because i clearly didn't know anything about your ethnicity. your extraordinarily ahistorical and sweeping proposals concerning the "harmonization" of quebec education, however, coupled with your callous disregard for the importance of these institutions to what remains of montreal's english community reveals you to be a linguistic bigot. the fact that all of these massive, sweeping reforms seem to be predicated on your peevish anger at the "bitching" of the anglo community reveals you to be a weird, unstable character (on this subject at least) -- a "hothead," as you've already admitted. as such, i'm not prepared to seriously discuss these issues with you. these are radical, strange ideas that no sovereignist leader has ever proposed. they are decidedly outside of the mainstream of the movement, and shouldn't be considered as part of it.
  3. kool maudit
    yeah a lot of dictatorial programmes begin with such rhetoric. what's that quote? the desire to save the world is a mask for the desire to rule it?
  4. kool maudit
    it shouldn't be necessary to state this, but in light of the above, i must say that i do not believe the sovereignist position is innately fanatical or bigoted. my criticisms were solely of antoniomtl, who revealed these personal qualities through his drastic and callously-phrased proposal.
  5. kool maudit
    in your desire to "eliminate," by state fiat, some of montreal's most historic and revered institutions, you have revealed yourself as a dangerous fanatic and a bigot. i won't discuss this matter with you any longer.
  6. kool maudit
    it has made numerous concessions, but isn't it still the greatest institution of historical english montreal? of the immense anglo-scottish civilization that once was rooted here?
  7. kool maudit
    even so, cutting their funding for the sorts of emotional/political reasons he outlined is not really in line with the sorts of policies espoused by western nations. it's third-worldy.
  8. kool maudit
    do you think the value of those institutions is so negligible that they could be so quickly discarded? mcgill university alone represents an incredible amount of economic, academic and cultural activity right in the heart of quebec's only metropolis. "the francophones of quebec," as you have grouped them, are not stupid, nor do they wish to head some sort of weird isolationist state. they are not a gaggle of robert mugabes (comments about westmount aside).
  9. kool maudit
    this seems unrelated to my post. i did not repeat the "typical anglos" xenophobia charge you have outlined, nor do i endorse it. i think it's sort of stupid, actually. you seem to perceive anglophones as external to montreal's history rather than inherent. again, this may be accurate in much of the rest of quebec, but this is montreal. i only really care about montreal. our history does not allow it. the "streamlining/harmonizing" mind is the same as the "conquering/assimilating" mind, only more passively phrased. the "two solitudes" system, however inefficient in your eyes, respects to some degree the reality of the city's history and of it's two founding cultures. your system does not. (besides, why do some quebecers always mention this desire to be like other countries (esp. scandinavian ones, for some weird reason...). i thought this place was unique?)
  10. kool maudit
    this is not sufficient for english montreal (it may be sufficient for the rest of quebec, however). english in montreal should be recognized as a founding language, and as the language of a founding culture. to insist that it occupy the same status as the remainder of the city's minority languages is the worst sort of ahistorical PC. our circumstance may be cumbersome, inefficient and weird, but it is ours. it is true to our history. all efforts to streamline or simplify this "sacred jumble" that comprises our situation are veiled attempts to ensure the supremacy of one language over the other. the english did it in the past and now (some of) the french are doing it.
  11. kool maudit
    i was in nova scotia the other weekend, and somebody brought up a (non-quebec related) recent issue of macleans, asking my opinion of it as i work in media. i said "i don't read maclean's. i'm from montreal." it was doubtlessly annoying, but satisfying.
  12. kool maudit
    this building sucks. i'm not awakening the "property rights v. community standards" box over this fucker.
  13. kool maudit
    this is the scale we've needed. i remember back in 1999 or so, when toronto finally and tentatively bumped up against the 40 storey mark with the pantages tower -- and now look. maybe this will give us a taste for this sort of thing.
  14. kool maudit
    new york has become paris, and shanghai, new york.
  15. kool maudit
    the parisian boulevards required a level of authority and command we don't have. north american versions don't work.
  16. kool maudit
    it's a railway and transit junction. any park would be pointless and unpleasant. the traditional approach to such areas is commuter-oriented retail and dense working-to-lower-middle-class/service worker etc. apartments over top. 5 to 7 stories. this would be better. maybe throw in a hotel -- the sort with a lot of brochures in the lobby and a decent, 24 hour diner/bar.
  17. kool maudit
    too much open space. if we're going to build a city, build some city. this is a chest wound.
  18. kool maudit
    this is not a reasonable speculation. stick to the argument. there are times when i start to think that you don't have opinions so much as a general sort of... persona.
  19. kool maudit
    I have replied as follows at spacing: "Cirrus, 3 stories is not sufficient for central locations. The best sections of the world's great central cities are near-universally composed of 5-7 story structures. Paris, Istanbul, London -- even SoHo in New York. Even Old Montreal. Given the development history of Montreal over the last 20 years, it is the height of irresponsibility to demand that vacant lot-filling projects be downscaled to economically unviable sizes. There exists a culture in Montreal that uses the language of Jane Jacobs urbanism to promote, through the bylaws and public consultation projects, a petty, restrictive and unambitious building programme that produces none of the sorts of structures and spaces that defined, say, Jacobs' Greenwich Village. These guys raised $20 million in foreign capital and built a building that will house a vibrant collection of businesses on what was once a vacant lot... and the reaction of some Montrealers is to hope that exploiting some chintzy little bylaw can maybe erase half of of this new activity. Desolation angels."
  20. kool maudit
    this jim morrison angle is a bit embarrassing, no?
  21. kool maudit
    i feel like a generalized sense of allegiance with the modern u.s. right may be luring you away from pure conservatism and into culture war/talk radio visions of europe and the world outside america.
  22. kool maudit
    mtlskyline, you often provide a valuable perspective here, a kind of conservative counter-balance that i've come to appreciate. in this instance, though, you have departed into self-parody.
  23. kool maudit
    a little ill-timed and overdone i think. i mean, i know you've been waiting for the moment and all -- but that probably wasn't it.
  24. kool maudit
    i fucking hate this city sometimes.
  25. kool maudit
    i really couldn't care less about this issue. a big, international metropolis will by its nature contain a certain population whose ties to the host country are... other than direct and strong. big deal -- money is money. conservative values have the advantage of a certain coherence, but they are often not the values of the immense metropolis. given the subject of this board, it's good to remember that.
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