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Online, hate appears far more amplified than it is in the outside world. In the real world, yes there are places teeming with immigrants and international stud
by roncesvalles 2y ago
Online, hate appears far more amplified than it is in the outside world.
In the real world, yes there are places teeming with immigrants and international students, but you drive a block and turn a corner, and "it's Canada again". You lose that nuance in the online world where all you see is 10 seconds of a 120 degree window into some parking lot somewhere where immigrants happened to have gathered.
If you watch a video of the Embarcadero in SF on a Sunday, you're gonna think no one actually lives in SF, there's only tourists.
- OccamsMirror 2y agoI think you'll find it's the very real housing crisis that is causing the anti-immigration sentiment.
- bawolff 2y agoPolls suggest 58% of canadians want less immigrants. That is up by 17% in 2 years. Those numbers are quite concerning. https://www.environicsinstitute.org/projects/project-details/canadian-public-opinion-about-immigration-and-refugees---fall-2024 https://www.environicsinstitute.org/projects/project-details... However i don't think its because people hate immigrants. I think its because conservatives managed to link it to the housing crisis, which is something canadians care a lot about, and neither liberals or ndp have had an effective come back to that.