LETTER: White Rock anti-racism forum \u2013 dialogue or doctrine?<\/p>\n
Published 6:45 pm Sunday, April 5, 2026<\/p>\n
Editor,<\/p>\n
In response to the article \u201cAnti-racism forum inspires dialogue\u201d (March 26)<\/p>\n
A recent anti-racism forum in White Rock, facilitated by MOSAIC, warrants a closer look from our community. While framed as a gathering for \u201cdialogue,\u201d those familiar with modern political activism will recognise it as an exercise in praxis \u2013 the application of a radical theory to shift social dynamics.<\/p>\n
Having spent years within the progressive left, I see the playbook being used. It relies on a specific lexicon that redefine words like \u201cinclusion \u201d and \u201cjustice\u201d to fit a framework of Critical Theory. In this worldview, \u201canti-racism\u201d does not mean not being racist, and to treat your neighbours with dignity and respect; it is a system of standpoint epistemology that categorizes individuals into power dynamics based on immutable traits. By adopting this language, the City is endorsing a state-sanctioned sociology that many residents do not share.<\/p>\n
We must ask: Where is the evidence, and what is the cost?<\/p>\n
The forum was ostensibly a response to \u201cracist attitudes\u201d observed during a local byelection, yet documented incidents remain absent from public reports. In a free society, we address actual harms through law and factual evidence. We do not use taxpayer-funded grants to hire outside consultants to \u201cunpack\u201d the supposed moral failings of an entire community based on vague trends.<\/p>\n
True community belonging is built through the freedom of individuals to interact with the marketplace and social life. We do not need expensive, ideological re-education forums to know how to be good neighbours, and we certainly shouldn\u2019t be footing the bill for a narrative that seeks to redefine our community from the outside.<\/p>\n
Martin H Fisher, White Rock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: White Rock anti-racism forum \u2013 dialogue or doctrine? Published 6:45 pm Sunday, April 5, 2026 Editor, In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-585092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}