Racism is so bad in the West that BLM and Antifa feel entitled to shut down society?
They call their grievances "systemic racism" (a crime alleging unequal social outcome due to unequal opportunities) while conveniently ignoring statistics and factual evidence, relying heavily on individual cases of racism which reinforces a confirmation bias. If you seek racism, you shall find it.
They are right there is no shortage of real racism. Where the dishonesty or failure to reason starts is when they accuse all others of one perceived group of sharing the same traits. This is called stereotyping and it exists in us all. This is a human instinct that helped our tribal ancestors to survive. Most modern people (in Western societies at least) would agree that it is unfair and not always accurate to assume that a person from a defined group must conform to that group. Generalizations in groups do NOT automatically apply to the individual who happens to be in whatever defined group! However there are indeed inferences that can be taken from averages from a group.
Statistically speaking, by measure of true equality of opportunity (NOT equality of outcome (equity) which is commonly misunderstood or deliberately misapplied by BLM in their view on systemic racism) the West is the freest and least racist society in any time or place in all of human history.
Not only are BLM and Antifa and their supporters so broken by their mental gymnastics that they fail to see (by lack of education, intelligence, or 'justified omission of the truth') the absolute inequality and racism that is "affirmative action" or "positive discrimination", a policy in which Canada is a world leader.
BLM and (modern) Antifa are American politics, and American politics spill into Canada. It is the exact same movement here as there (albeit with less outward chaos as of yet). With a far different history from the USA, the sheer hypocrisy of hardcore BLM or Antifa supporters is even stronger for their Canadian contingents.
BLM is a mob of group thinkers with the audacity that their broken misunderstandings of the world justifies them to be as lawless as they want to achieve a new world order that they can't even define.
Your right that most of what we see "in the public eye" is not often reliable. Special interests lobby what is propagated in the media (traditional and online). By special interests I mean anyone that has anything to gain. Media with powerful backing behind it can convince a large group of people virtually anything in very little time, or censor it. The media lies very much IMO through sheer laziness as well.
I would never argue racism does not exist or racists do not exist. My point was the same as yours, that in reality the world is not as racist as media likes to portray.
Yep. No evidence of systemic racism exists in Canada, except against whites, despite thousands of researchers in colleges paid to document just that. Further, some races, such as Japanese Canadians, outperform whites economically and academically with less criminality and stronger families. This proves that hard work and strong families, not prejudice, dictate outcomes. But these are what leftist fight against.