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"Foreign real estate investor" in Vancouver is a thinly veiled euphemism for "Chinese and Russian money." When you're passing a law that disproportionately aff
by jimmywanger 10y ago
"Foreign real estate investor" in Vancouver is a thinly veiled euphemism for "Chinese and Russian money."
When you're passing a law that disproportionately affects certain ethnic groups, that particular comparison is apt.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoMost of the Russian and Chinese money is being laundered out of their respective countries. Your ethnicity isn't being discrimated against, just your country's economics circumstances. No reason to bring the SJWing into an economic argument.
- jimmywanger 10y ago>Your ethnicity isn't being discrimated against, just your country's economics circumstances. Restricting people, no matter their ethnicities, based on their country's circumstances is generally frowned upon. Especially when it only affects citizens of a few countries. "Well, this law only applies to <action> Too bad only people from these countries perform these <actions>" Besides, your claim that the money is being laundered is highly speculative and unproven. That's the definition of painting with a wide brush - because most money is suspect, you cut off access to all of it?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoBoth local governments and popular opinion in those regions differ from your opinion, although you are still entitled to that opinion. Local residents and voters have the right to keep others out if their laws allow for it. Outsiders/non-citizens don't get a vote.
- zzalpha 10y agoWut? This is fundamentally a monetary and trade policy issue. Are you claiming that, for example, tarriffs on Chinese dumped imports are also equivalent to racially targeted laws?