Trumpy behavior appears to be everywhere. We cats are sad to report that it's even popped up in our favorite city, Montreal.
By Trumpy behavior, we mean people behaving rudely and boorishly, and when they're called on it, they double down. Along the way, they indulge in ugly stereotyping and hate. Have we missed anything?
Here's the story: In the Montreal neighborhood of Outremont, which has a large community of Hasidic Jews, a group of non-Jewish residents was annoyed with having to stop behind the Hasids' school buses so often. To protest the inconvenience, they showed up at a borough council meeting wearing... um, rectangular yellow patches on their lapels.
Well, at least they weren't Stars of David!
You'd kind of hope that once this egregious error was pointed out, the bus protesters would have taken off the patches and apologized profusely. If we cats had done it, we'd be so embarrassed we'd have to slink away for weeks. But not these folks.
"(The Jews) always bring up their painful past," was the protesters' spokesperson's retort. "They do it to muzzle us. We’re wearing the yellow square because the school buses are yellow. We are living an injustice. We are being persecuted by them."
See what we mean? Trumpy. Never admit a mistake, and for God's sake, never apologize. That's for losers. We cats HISS.
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