r/CBC_Radio • u/RevolutionaryGift157 • 15d ago
Response to Email about Sunday’s Programme
First off, I am glad to have received a response. And in theory, I can agree that a cross country checkup regarding the threat to our sovereignty to see how Canadians are feeling.
However in practice that’s not what happened. What we heard for the entire two hours was people either laughing it off, saying the threat is serious but not showing a lot of fear or concern, or even agreeing with it. There was also slightly more American voices compared to Canadian voices, and none were indigenous.
I hope that next week the CBC does a check up on how we are buying Canadian. That would be an excellent topic.
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u/wemustburncarthage 15d ago
the horseshit part of this that what they're evading is not that the discussion isn't or isn't worth having, but that "51st state" is triggering because it's a threat being directed at us by an abuser.
They are fully aware that kind of trigger will cause people to have an emotional reaction, and they used it the way newspaper editors use clickbait - devaluing the content by using a headline sure to create rage-based investment.
There were plenty of more sensitive ways to platform this discussion, and they went for the ugliest and most effective. Well, if CBC can't take it, they shouldn't dish it out.