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In a thread full of people with weird preconceptions talking past each-other, this is the most perfectly wrong statement anyone has made. The people you're tal
by comeonbro 3y ago
In a thread full of people with weird preconceptions talking past each-other, this is the most perfectly wrong statement anyone has made.
The people you're talking about would strangle this entire country to death (and have) before allowing a single 3-story building to be built outside of the small areas that were already been zoned for it 80 years ago.
The Canadian Indigenous identity issues tied up in this project are the only force that have ever been powerful enough to bludgeon them into submission, just this one time.
- timmytokyo 3y agoYou're making my point. I was responding to this comment: >Skyscrapers are not an indigenous lifestyle. I suppose that's not okay to bring up in this context? If people are going to oppose this project, don't do it on the basis of some vaguely bigoted notion that "these skyscrapers don't match the indigenous lifestyle". As if that's the reason the project's opponents are opposing it. It's clearly a smokescreen being deployed because they actually dislike the project for NIMBY reasons (e.g., "it'll block my view", "it'll reduce the value of my nearby properties"). (Whether the commenter I'm responding to actually believes this is immaterial. The article quoted a local government official who basically said the same thing.)
- trimethylpurine 3y agoSkyscrapers not being indigenous has no bearing on whether they should be built or not. I think we all agree on that. Here's what's really bothering me. How did you arrive at the conclusion that the quote is implication of opposition to this development? Aside from the author of the article not so subtly injecting that implication, with no context, there's literally nothing to indicate that.