The Wayne Gretzky statue outside of the Rogers Place in Edmonton was vandalized with excrement on Friday.JASON FRANSON/The Canadian Press
On Saturday, the New York Times published an op-ed headlined, ‘Canadians Know Americans. They Don’t Want to Be One.’
It’s become trendy for the right sort of American (in this, an expat Canadian) to write something that reassures right-thinking fellow citizens that it’s not them. It’s the rest of America that’s bad.
I feel something deeper than annoyance when I read these things now. It’s edging into rage. Nothing about them is wrong, but they have only one purpose. They are designed to absolve half of America for what the whole is doing. They are of a…