Juno News - November 06, 2022


As if you needed another reason to #DefundTheCBC


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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

189.97426

Word count

787

Sentence count

68

Harmful content

Misogyny

8

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Toxicity

7

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Hate speech

4

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Summary

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Sue Ann McRae is a Winnipeg writer and activist who practices witchcraft. She says she uses the word witch as an act of reclaiming and says it s important to remember the near genocide of witches in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Transcript

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00:00:00.720 We always like to end things on a bit of a light note here.
00:00:04.120 It was Halloween at the beginning of the week,
00:00:06.960 so many of you may have dressed up.
00:00:08.880 I was stuck in Ottawa, which is a scary enough place
00:00:11.760 without it being Halloween.
00:00:13.320 But CBC has decided to unironically run
00:00:16.620 in its first-person section,
00:00:18.480 which is where people who aren't conventional journalists
00:00:20.700 or columnists share stories from their lives,
00:00:23.500 I am a witch.
00:00:25.740 I'm not evil, and I'm not your Halloween costume.
00:00:28.960 So just to preface this,
00:00:30.780 we have cultural appropriation,
00:00:33.060 we have racial appropriation,
00:00:35.940 we have the ban on blackface, 0.95
00:00:37.960 which I think is a very good ban.
00:00:39.080 No one should be doing blackface. 1.00
00:00:40.420 We have all of these forms of appropriation
00:00:42.420 where we're not supposed to partake
00:00:43.660 in someone else's experience.
00:00:44.760 Well, the witches say they've had enough
00:00:46.940 of their culture being appropriated on Halloween.
00:00:51.340 So it's time to ask you, Sue Ann,
00:00:52.920 have you ever dressed up as a witch for Halloween,
00:00:56.040 and do you wish to make amends for it?
00:00:57.640 Like, not only have I dressed up,
00:01:00.200 but I'll get you, my little pretty,
00:01:02.860 and your little doll, too!
00:01:06.000 That's appropriation.
00:01:07.520 You're going to get cancelled, Sue Ann.
00:01:08.760 Like, you're going to get your checkmark taken away.
00:01:10.640 You are going to be absolutely...
00:01:11.740 You have just appropriated witchhood.
00:01:15.000 I know. 0.99
00:01:15.720 I'm going to be burned at the stake. 0.98
00:01:17.580 That's all there is to it. 0.98
00:01:19.140 No, you're burning at the stake jokes.
00:01:20.580 That's appropriation, too.
00:01:21.680 You can't do any of it now.
00:01:23.020 I'm like, at the end of it,
00:01:23.940 I don't even know what you have left in society.
00:01:25.780 Because I get, like, that was the old line you hear
00:01:28.280 a lot of the time from Indigenous people.
00:01:29.680 My culture is not a costume.
00:01:31.000 And it's like, okay.
00:01:31.800 Like, I didn't know that people were offended
00:01:33.560 by, like, the pointy hat
00:01:34.880 and, like, the big, you know, warty nose
00:01:36.760 and all of that.
00:01:37.420 But apparently, according to Suzanne McRae,
00:01:40.840 who is a Winnipeg-based...
00:01:43.560 I'm using the description here.
00:01:45.480 A Winnipeg-based writer and activist
00:01:47.620 who practices witchcraft.
00:01:49.780 Which, in fairness, I think is the only way
00:01:51.460 you can survive a life in Winnipeg.
00:01:54.280 But she says,
00:01:54.960 every Halloween, we have the witch talk.
00:01:58.160 A witch is not a costume.
00:01:59.400 I call myself a witch to challenge the stereotype 0.99
00:02:02.100 of an ugly old woman with warts on her nose 0.99
00:02:04.760 making deals with the devil. 1.00
00:02:06.800 I didn't know witches made deals with the devil. 1.00
00:02:08.880 But, I mean, it turns out
00:02:10.000 I don't know enough about witchcraft.
00:02:12.020 Well, I guess she hasn't seen the play Wicked
00:02:14.460 with the Green Witch. 0.81
00:02:16.580 That's true.
00:02:17.240 That is true.
00:02:18.580 That is true.
00:02:19.040 So, I think she needs to get out of Winnipeg
00:02:21.840 and go see Wicked on Broadway.
00:02:23.920 It's actually going to be playing in Toronto.
00:02:25.680 Let's invite her to Toronto to see Wicked.
00:02:27.840 I was going to say,
00:02:28.540 we might have to fundraise to fly her out. 1.00
00:02:30.480 But, you know where this joke is going.
00:02:33.280 She can just take her broom. 1.00
00:02:35.120 Exactly.
00:02:36.220 I can lend her one.
00:02:37.360 I have one.
00:02:39.340 Well, no, you've got to get the broom to...
00:02:40.840 Well, maybe you can just, like,
00:02:41.700 fly the broom to Winnipeg
00:02:43.140 to pick her up and then grab her the broom. 1.00
00:02:45.880 Yeah, and then she... 1.00
00:02:47.040 Well, no, if you fly,
00:02:48.900 you're appropriating her culture again.
00:02:51.620 So, she says she performs weddings
00:02:54.060 and hand fastings the old Celtic way.
00:02:57.140 I don't know what a hand fasting is.
00:02:58.380 It sounds a little bit raunchy
00:03:00.260 if I don't want to Google it just in case.
00:03:02.820 But she says she uses the word witch
00:03:05.040 as an act of reclaiming
00:03:06.540 and says it's important to remember
00:03:08.380 the near genocide of witches
00:03:10.240 in the 16th and 17th centuries.
00:03:12.360 Now, this is, like, the only thing
00:03:14.140 Justin Trudeau has not apologized for
00:03:16.160 is the near genocide of witches
00:03:17.920 five, four hundred years ago.
00:03:20.160 Well, I think he's going to have to apologize
00:03:22.340 for that Broadway show then.
00:03:24.100 Wicked.
00:03:24.580 Because, you know... 1.00
00:03:26.320 Green witches! 1.00
00:03:27.140 So, let me just...
00:03:30.520 To put a pin on this,
00:03:32.920 when Pierre Polyev says
00:03:34.640 he wants to defund CBC
00:03:36.160 and the media freaks out,
00:03:38.200 he should just pull this story up on his phone
00:03:40.860 and hold it to the camera
00:03:42.040 and say nothing else.
00:03:43.700 Like, this is, like, case in point
00:03:45.120 in 600, 800 words,
00:03:46.900 the case for defunding CBC.
00:03:48.380 There are so many cases.
00:03:50.940 But this is a good one,
00:03:52.360 I have to say.
00:03:53.460 Well, maybe we could put a spell.
00:03:55.460 Maybe we could, you know,
00:03:56.800 boil, boil, cauldron, treble,
00:03:58.860 you know, the whole thing,
00:04:00.100 throw in a few toads and all that.
00:04:02.600 And, poof!
00:04:04.680 CBC's gone.
00:04:05.700 Ha ha ha ha!