• ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    11 months ago

    for those who haven’t read the woman’s FB post, here is a clip:

    “…were attacked on Saturday night by a group of 7-10+ middle eastern men, believed to be from Syria, aged 18-25”

    Canada has a lot of issues at this moment, stemming in part from increased immigration in the last 3 years (causing housing issues, etc). This sort of event, “brown people beating up white women” could be a dangerous racial catalyst.

    I hope this gets dealt with as a single incident, but given current affairs, I am not optimistic.

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      11 months ago

      Immigration is such a fucked up issue almost everywhere. You’ve got the right blaming everything on brown people and the left claiming all immigrants are just peace loving pacifists looking for a better life.

      As with most issues the truth is in the middle and any immigration policy should absolutely demand that any immigrant coming into a country assimilate and fully support our values of equality for all.

      You cannot tell me you support equality for all when your religion makes your wife walk 5 steps behind you in a beekeeper suit at 30c weather while you get to strut around in shorts and flip-flops.

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        11 months ago

        As with most issues the truth is in the middle and any immigration policy should absolutely demand that any immigrant coming into a country assimilate and fully support our values of equality for all.

        America is hardly a country of “equality for all” sadly

        Edit: This was literally 4 posts down

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          This happened in Canada, what does the usa have to do with this? This same thing is playing out over in the EU as well, and everyone here is wondering how the right is gaining political growth…this is why. People inherently do not want groups that come over and violently force their beliefs on the population.

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        As with most issues the truth is in the middle and any immigration policy should absolutely demand that any immigrant coming into a country assimilate and fully support our values of equality for all.

        Plenty of born Canadians do not support these principles at all

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        I agree, and it goes both ways. I was taking to a Mexican immigrant yesterday who hasn’t been home to see his mother in more than 20 years as he doesn’t have the ability to cross the border, and she has continuously been denied visas without explanation.

        There’s a lot of shit the US puts immigrants through as they walk on the edge of being allowed to exist here. My opinion is that we should both open our borders, and document the people who come through.

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      11 months ago

      I hope this gets dealt with as a single incident, but given current affairs, I am not optimistic.

      Genuine question. Is it a single incident though?

      There have been a lot of reports of issues with people coming to western countries and not holding the same standards of respect for women.

      I think it should be dealt with as a single issue iff it is a single issue. If it isn’t a single issue why should it be treated as such?

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        Police said one man stayed and made a statement, in the US at least this means identifying yourself, so they have a likely reliable way to identify the men involved

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      11 months ago

      I don’t think a lot of Syrians were allowed into Canada as much as Germany and Sweden (at least proportionately in the latter case).