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And immigrants impact housing by renting them thus increasing demand.
by nickpp 2y ago
And immigrants impact housing by renting them thus increasing demand.
- eesmith 2y agoAnd Italians (40K), followed by Pakistani (23K), Chinese (22K), and French (17K), are the top immigrant nations to Barcelona before finally getting to Moroccans (16K), which is the only African nation in the top 11 listed at https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/es/contenidos/demografia-en-evolucion https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/es/contenidos/demografi... . All population information I can find says your seemingly racist viewpoint is not backed by any evidence that it's a significant contribution.
- nickpp 2y agoDid I say or imply anything about the race of the immigrants?!
- eesmith 2y ago"a flux of African immigrants who in turn have families with 6 to 10 kids. And insignificant new housing. But they choose to bother tourists because it's cool." Would you have preferred "xenophobic", "nativist", or "bigoted" instead? No non-Moroccan African countries were even on that list of immigrant populations in Catalonia. I checked with https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racismo_cultural https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racismo_cultural and indeed even in Spanish "racism" does not specifically require "race": > El racismo cultural, también denominado «neoracismo» o «racismo diferencial», es una forma de racismo surgida después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en la que la identificación de los grupos humanos no se basa en sus rasgos biológicos (en la «raza», un concepto deslegitimado después de 1945) sino en su cultura, estableciendo una jerarquía de culturas «superiores» e «inferiores» como en el viejo racismo científico.
- nickpp 2y agoCheck out the user author of those comments. You are replying to a different person. I did not write those words.
- eesmith 2y agoIndeed. So why are you making irrelevant comments which imply you support a racist?
- nickpp 2y agoBecause immigration does impact housing, no matter the races involved. The questions is: why are you bringing race into this?
- eesmith 2y agoBecause I was responding to a specific racist claim that certain African immigrants had a much higher impact on the housing problems in Barcelona than the increase in tourism, supposedly backed by numbers, but in fact empty lies.
- aaomidi 2y agoDog whistles are dog whistles buddy.
- nickpp 2y agoHe’s replying to a different person, I did not write the words he’s quoted.
- sabbaticaldev 2y agoyou defended a comment that did, taking it as your own
- nickpp 2y agoIs that how forums on the Internet work?