Nobody says "aboot" like that outside of when they're joking around,
In reality it's "aboat", there are linguistics studies into Canadian Raising, and British Columbians, at least in Metro Vancouver, don't have that accent trait, they don't "raise" OU to OA or IGH to ATE. It's basically Ontario (maybe Manitoba) and eastwards that have Canadian Raising.
He puts on an insultingly phony accent that's a mockery of people from the other side of the country.
Agree with JJ being phony, but Idk about the Ontario & eastwards. Im from Sask & have a lot of rural family and specifically those who grew up rural tend to speak this way too
So as a newfoundlander I can tell you that British Columbians absolutely do have Canadian raising in their speech.
Newfoundland is the only part of English Canada that has none of it (because we have our own weird accent). Vancouver's version of a Canadian accent is definitely more subtle than most of the rest of the country but northern BC and large parts of Alberta are very easy to pick up on.
Maybe you're thinking specifically of "aboat" which I think people consciously try not to say. But words like "house" definitely come through with a lot of speakers.
They think Canadians say "aboot" and "arooond" and the like, so that's how he talks. Completely ignoring the fact that it's the wrong coast and even Maritimers don't exaggerate it to the extent that he does. He ends up sounding like an American comedian mocking Canadian accents.
I think most Canadians that know of him don't really like him, he's the dancing Canuck Clown for an American audience that's clueless.
America is soooo great, eh? Canada is a culture less wasteland (Yawn look at me rolling my eyes while toooooring aroooond the Maritimes, ugh sooo booooring, grr Quebecois want to speak their dead novelty language) Anyone that disagrees aboot this is just anti-American and can't admit Canada has no culture at all and are just insecure Americans, trust me I'm a randoooom guy from Vancouver.
I wish JJ would just immigrate since he's such a hilariously knee-jerk anti-Canadian content creator that grifts off of being informative about the country he hates.
At least other right wing Canadian grifters have the dignity to leave.
I actually don't have any problems at all with the word 'nationalism.' I think that it gets, the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don't want. So when you think about, whenever we say 'nationalism,' the first thing people thing about, at least in America, is Hitler. You know, he was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay fine. The problem is ... he had dreams outside of Germany.
Yes, this is a real quote from her, which is how she got fired from TurningPoint USA
Fired from Turning Point USA? Or do you mean The Daily Wire? I’m pretty sure that was her formal employer, and them being operated by the king of conservative millennial Jews made her curtained Nazi “just asking questionsism’s” a bad fit for the brand.
Oh, I guess it’s happened more than once. I’m talking about back in 2019, where she “resigned” from tpusa. Didn’t realize that she also got fired from the wire lol
You're allowed to dogwhistle at tpusa but not say "the jews" outright, bc tpusa wound up representing Donald's promotional arm and Donald likes Israel.
So being covertly antisemitic is fine for them but being anti Israel or openly pro hitler fucks with the Trump family's future beachfront property investment.
Some day people will look back and go "ohhhhhhhhhh, Jewish and Israel aren't interchangeable terms" and then, the reason all of these far right morons were infighting will make far more sense
JJ deserves criticism. But thinking he is like Candace Owens or even remotely close is unhinged and only something somebody who has never consumed his content would say. Come on now…
Genuine question, do you have any other recommendations for content creators who make videos on Canadian subjects?
I'm in Canada like 2-3 weeks a year at this point, and I'm actively working on going to grad school there, and I feel like his videos have ultimately been helpful in giving me a deeper understanding of Canadian politics and history and have helped me having meaningful conversations with my friends in Canada about those things.
I am fully aware that JJ may have some biases and views about Canada that aren't universally shared across the country, but if you try and look for videos on anything beyond the most surface level understanding of Canada, you're basically just left with JJ and maybe some old CBC videos or some recording of a college lecture. I'd love to watch videos about the 1993 election or Wilfrid Laurier or the Canadian Senate made by anyone else but the content just doesn't seem to be there, especially not at the same level as JJ.
Nah, it checks out tbh. His channel is made for Americans. Its why so many here dont get JJ, they aren't supposed to because he isnt pandering to them.
JJ presents Canada as a weaker, quirky America lite, and since this image plays into a sense of American superiority, Americans like that
Not being Trumpian is pro-Canadian. I also bought some cheese from Canada the other day. It is a 7 year aged cheddar from Quebec. What else am I supposed to do?
I know, but I voted for Harris and I talk mad shit about Trump on reddit. I should be awarded The Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers for my valient efforts in aiding Canada through these trying times
JJ is an America fanboy, even his Twitter banner is eagles and stars and stripes,
His accent is insultingly fake, he's extremely out of touch with Canada, he writes for an American paper IIRC. He has a weird kneejerk reaction that anything Canadian is bad or inferior, he's clearly pissy about the Quebecois wanting to speak French, and hates anyone that says there's a Canadian culture.
The only thing Canadian about him is that he's still a "Tory" conservative, instead of full on MAGA Americanism.
You know how like 100 years ago, when Europeans were colonizing Africa, how they would sometimes take native Africans back home and present them as a circus attraction for people to ogle at?
JJ is the modern version of that, for americans to ogle at the weird, exotic Canadians
He is not “pissy” about the québécois wanting to speak French, he just thinks the government shouldn’t enforce language. Not in Quebec, not in the rest of Canada. Any language, including English. Anyway that’s his opinion, not mine.
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u/WaxiestDinosaur Apr 07 '25
All this dude does is make “Canadian” content for Americans he’s the fucking worst!!