• ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
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    4 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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      4 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.