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Subject: Re: [OT] Yet another exercise in "woke"/DEI pandering
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:59:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mar 17, 2025 at 1:34:14 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

> Toronto mayor Olivia Chow is encouraging the idea of adding an 
> indigenous (i.e. Indian or Inuit (formerly Eskimo)) councillor to the 
> Toronto City Council. This individual would be *appointed*, not elected, 
> but still have full voting rights.
> 
> Brian Lilley points out why this is objectionable just in case it isn't 
> obvious:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsMieSpx-gU [3 minutes]
> 
> Some of the comments are fun. A few of them propose Buffy Ste. Marie to 
> fill the post; she's only recently admitted that she was born in the US 
> after decades of being honoured as a Canadian aboriginal performer; she 
> was "adopted" by a Cree tribe in Saskatchewan as an adult and used that 
> to obtain various awards and honours in this country.

This happens in Hawaii, too, and I've never been able to figure out how it has
survived given how unconstitutional it is.

Hawaii has seats in the state legislature that are "native only". If you're
not a Hawaiian native with proof of your pedigree, you literally can't run for
office to be elected to those seats.

Imagine if Colorado or Wisconsin had several seats in the state legislature
reserved for white candidates only. That wouldn't be allowed to stand for a
millisecond. Yet Hawaii gets away with it. I can only imagine no one has ever
challenged it because if anyone *had* challenged it, there's no way any court
could allow it given the Constitution and federal statutes and civil rights
jurisprudence against it.

The only other way I can see this being allowed is under the moviePig 14.5
Amendment-- otherwise known as the Seems To Amendment.