• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Are you First Nation?

        Yes? Then you aren’t an immigrant.

        No? Find out where your family originated from before coming to Canada, and that would be the place.

        The bigots from the poll have a problem with the other immigrants who aren’t them or their family.

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          8 months ago

          My family came from Russia four generations ago. I’m not able to move to Russia even if I wanted to.

          I was born here, and therefore by definition I am not an immigrant.

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              8 months ago

              Are you saying I can’t criticize immigration because my family generations ago are immigrants? If not, then I did miss your point.

              My rebuttal to that is that I did not choose to be born here. And I’m here now and it’s obvious that immigration levels are too high given our failing housing and health care policies for example.

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                8 months ago

                You can certainly criticize immigration policy, but having a problem with immigrants seems like a double standard.

                Does that make sense now?

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                  8 months ago

                  Yes so why are you assuming that’s not the reasoning the people in the poll have? Barely anyone in Canada actually dislikes immigrants themselves

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                    8 months ago

                    why are you assuming that’s not the reasoning the people in the poll have?

                    Well, you have to read the article/poll, because a large number said that immigrants (as people) are a harm to Canada.

                    Barely anyone in Canada actually dislikes immigrants themselves

                    We can agree to disagree on this point. Seeing how hate crimes are up, and that only visible minority immigrants are targeted, I’d say we are far from having a country where everyone likes immigrants (as people).

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          What a ridiculous statement though. There were people in Canada before the current indigenous people, does that make our First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples settlers and conquerors? Where’s the buck stop?

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            8 months ago

            Do the pollsters have a problem with our indigenous “immigrants” or just the brown, yellow, and black ones?

            When I hear someone say that “there are too many immigrants!”, they aren’t talking about immigration policy. They are actually just being racist towards the other immigrants.

            The majority of people in this country are a descendent of an immigrant of the last several generations. So, it’s silly to have a problem with actual immigrant people.