Angry in the Great White North

A "tar baby" is, of course, a sticky situation that gets worse the longer you remain in contact with it.  It comes from one of the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris.  Even Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff, uber-intellectual and prolific writer, hasn't invented a word or term that has entered into the English language.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre used the perfectly legitimate term in parliament, and now Liberal and NDP MPs are howling for an apology.  Why?  Who knows?  Something about being black or something.  Really, it makes no sense.

[Actually, I think it's about scoring cheap political points, but these opposition MPs are certainly not saying that.]

It's like the controversy over the word "niggardly".  It is born of ignorance of the language these people claim to speak.

But in an attempt to divert some of this attention from Pierre Poilievre (who has not apologized, nor will be compelled to apologize by the speaker), I would like to draw the attention of these candidates for remedial English classes to this post.  I will now assault their sensitive natures in the most awful way possible.

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Leave Pierre Poilievre alone and go after me.  Try to get me to apologize.  While I'm at it, good riddance to the Tamil Tigers.  Bunch of terrorist thugs.  Hey, if I'm going to offend, might as get my money's worth out of it.