What makes oil ethical? Pt. 2

Prejudices, stereotypes, and just any hateful language can make is so hard to have a thoughtful discussion on a topic. Consider my ethical oil post from yesterday.

In many respects the so-called ethical oil campaign created by Alykhan Velshi uses stereotypes and prejudices about people and governments in the  middle east and south america promote Canadian oil.

In turn, a small number of commenters at the Globe and Mail used prejudices, stereotypes, and hateful language about Albertans (and their government) in an attempt to criticize the ad campaign.

Consider this comment by someone named con hack PM down in flames:

“When petroleum reserves were deposited around the world, it is unfortunate that they were all given to the world’s bastards,”

Not bad. Described the Alberta con hack loser government to a T.

This article was linked to by the conservative site, Small Dead Animals, and the commenters there have focused exclusively on this type of negative comment.

Now the commenters there believe that any criticism of the ethical oil campaign is rooted in unseemly anti-Albertan prejudice. As progressives we have to remember to conduct ourselves in accordance with our values.