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awkward-teabag · 8 months

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So tired of everything being derailed by racists.

Want to talk about jobs? Blame immigrants.

Want to talk about the state of housing? Blame immigrants.

Want to talk about post-secondary education? Blame immigrants.

Want to talk about healthcare? Blame immigrants.

Want to talk about the state of the economy in general? Blame immigrants.

And it's never about the systems in place that lead to immigration or the how companies exploit young workers from elsewhere in the world (by taking advantage of their inexperience, their lack of support network, taking their money, and so on), it's all about how those dastardly non-whites are trying to screw honest Canadians out of everything by taking advantage of us, and they're personally going after you.

You can be talking about something and even be open to talking about the complex issue that is immigration but it immediately gets taken over by THEY TOOK OUR JERBS! assholes.

It's at the point where as soon as immigrants/immigration comes up, I peace out unless I know the person and can expect them to have a point beyond bigotry and fascism.

Because it's never about our systems, decade(s) of neglect, neoliberalism or conservatism, or anything like that, it's about how selfish, rich, and anti-white brown kids are and things would be perfectly fine if not for them.

#seriously i have heard so many people say the reason why housing is so bad #is because immigrants come from cultures where sharing a room is normal #so that's why it costs $2k to rent a room in a house you share with 4 other adults #it can't possibly be because the lack of social housing or that landlords were given a free pass to do that #or that many of our politicians have 'investment properties' including the federal housing minister #or that students (esp female students) end up being taken advantage of with housing #'cause living with a guy who rapes you for $500/month is feasible while $2k/month is beyond your means #and is preferable to dropping out and being homeless #also all it takes is one tiktok video of an immigrant saying they're taking advantage of something #and the racists will run with it and say *all* immigrants are doing that #e.g. that immigrants are taking food out of our mouths because someone said they go to food banks to get cheap/free food #i'm sure some of it online is psyops #but these sentiments have existed for a long time but now people have no problem saying them to your face #emboldened by american propaganda and pp fearmongering and appealing to xenophobia #also it should be noted since i was a kid it's been warned about how the country's economy couldn't be sustained without another baby boom #once boomers and older gen xers retired #immigration literally keeps our economy from utterly collapsing because we don't have enough workers to replace retiring ones #or enough workers to pay pensioners #it is a massive massive complex issue that goes back decades #and sure the federal government is complicit in all of it #but again for decades and that includes the conservatives who supposedly would fix everything if only we voted them in again #i'm far from a fan of trudeau but this started well before him #and you can't even criticize him without it being derailed to be about xenophobia or being assumed to be a fellow bigot #hell i avoid criticizing singh because the moment you do you're assumed to be racist or a fellow racist #canada is a fucking racist and xenophobic country and has always been so #stop assuming we're not or that we're no where near as bad as america or uk tories or anything like that #if you can believe that the british queen wasn't a nice old lady who never did anything wrong and the british monarchy is perfectly benign #you can believe that canada's pr and propaganda is wrong and it's not a good country #and maybe listen to canadians about this instead of what media tells you canada is like and how canadians are

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