Canadian smoke is racist

Canada is a very White country. 70% of the population is of European extraction.

So it’s no surprise that the smoke from Canada’s wildfires is harming Blacks and other underprivileged Americans disproportionately.

What a bunch of racists. Time to invade!

The smoke is impacting air quality issues for poor and Black communities that already are more likely to live near polluting plants and in rental housing with mold. https://t.co/8u1QutUk4w

— FOX 9 (@FOX9) June 29, 2023

Back in March, I wrote about an absurd Los Angeles Times article that claimed that car exhaust from White drivers was sickening Black Angelinos. It was a fascinating deep dive into the twisted minds of liberals, whose racial obsession leads them to believe that car exhaust is racially aware and White exhaust seeks out and sickens Black people.

Given that Hispanics make up nearly half of Los Angeles’ population, and non-Hispanic Whites only about 30%, that is some mighty discriminating car exhaust. I wonder how the Hispanic and Black car exhaust avoids being pollution.

It’s a mystery.

But not, to me, any more vexing mystery than the ability of Canadian smoke to deftly avoid the lungs of White Americans, who make up a larger fraction of the people exposed to the smoke than minorities. As a general rule, the country gets Whiter as you move north, and last I checked Canada is north of the United States.

Yet Canada’s smoke is smart enough to preferentially seek to determine the melanin content of our skin and attack those who are more blessed with the pigment.

Maybe it is secret White nanotechnology or something.

DETROIT – Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting warnings to stay inside and exacerbating health risks for people already suffering from industrial pollution.

The impacts are particularly hard on poor and minority communities that are more likely to live near polluting plants and have higher rates of asthma. Detroit, a mostly Black city with a poverty rate of about 30%, had some of the worst air quality in the U.S. on Wednesday, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to warn that “everyone should stay indoors.”

That is a pretty deft way of describing what is happening, choosing Detroit, which indeed has a large Black population.

However, it turns out that the Detroit metropolitan region, which as far as I know shares the same air, is over 60% White. It turns out that the air masses don’t stop at 8 Mile Road.

In other words, for the total group affected by the smoke in this region, only 1 out of 5 people are Black. Detroit isn’t even particularly industrialized anymore, suggesting that the claim that air quality there is worse than in other parts of the region is a bit weak.

Detroit is the hole in the donut of the region, and not where activity is highly concentrated anymore. I wonder why?

In any case, more people live outside Detroit in the region than in it, meaning that Detroit’s demographics are not representative of those affected in the area.

As you can see, they started with the narrative: Black people hit worst!, and just ignore countervailing facts.

It’s not so much that they are lying. Actually, they aren’t. They are simply indifferent to the truth and probably never even thought to check any facts to see if what they were saying was true or false.

Narrative Über Alles!