The scourge of white racism

Canadians need to be much more vigilant about anti-immigrant and racist dog-whistling in the public sphere.

While he denounced last week’s attack against Muslim worshippers in New Zealand, U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured in 2017, also downplayed the severity of white nationalism as a rising global threat.Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

March 20, 2019

OTTAWA—The death toll from the white supremacist terrorist attack on Muslims in New Zealand had only just risen on the weekend when United States President Donald Trump was tweeting his full-throated support for a Fox News host who had been suspended for on-air Islamophobic comments. “Bring bac...

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