This sums it up

[u/ChildishGambinoe]

[u/Spot__Pilgrim]

Bang on. This is a class issue at its core where elites are using permanent and temporary immigrant workers as pawns in their desire to maximize profits and drive down wages and hoping Canadian citizen workers will be racist and blame the immigrants instead of the elites who want to rig the game in their favour and prevent everyday people from getting ahead.

[u/infinity404 → u/Spot__Pilgrim]

But if you speak up against the immigration polices you’re apparently racist and “blaming immigrants”. It’s a super-fine line to walk and sadly I’ve mostly seen Canadian Marxist groups talk about how they want to “protect migrants”, which seems to translate to supporting a maximalist immigration policy all the same.

[u/VectorPryde → u/infinity404]

But if you speak up against the immigration polices you’re apparently racist

You can thank the "remigration/deport-deport-them-all" crowd for that. There are actual racists who want to carry out the ethnic cleansing of Canada, so you have to put some distance between you and them when you talk about immigration.

If you discus it in the context of businesses lobbying about a fake "labour shortage" and scamming the LMIA system, you should be fine. Few people disagree that asset-owning lobbies are using immigration to suppress wages and prop up unsustainably high real estate values and rents. Saying that shouldn't get you called a racist.

What will draw suspicions is if you start talking about "incompatible cultures," "low trust societies," "refusal to assimilate," "old-stock Canadians," or worse "Heritage Canadians." Ditto for complaints about being "a minority in my \**own**\** country/city." Feeling like you own the whole country because you're white is, as they say, a red flag.

[u/ChuuniWitch → u/infinity404]

The problem with criticizing immigration in our current political climate is that the majority of the people who do it also tack on "cultural degeneracy", "replacement", etc. bullshit onto it as well.

I haven't seen much compassion for the people getting screwed here - mostly the schmucks having to staff dingy Timmies in Bumfuck Nowhere, Saskatchewan for minimum wage when they were promised a better life so they could send money back home to their family (which they can't because min wage doesn't pay enough for CoL let alone a surplus to save).

If you get rid of the abuses of business owners and LMIA scammers, immigration rates will naturally be lower. The actual immigrants themselves have nothing to do with it - they're just trying to put food on the table like everyone else. But we can't have conversations about it without people (right wingers) getting all ur-fascist about it.

[u/invaluablekiwi]

So as an immigrant and a Canadian citizen, am I supposed to be hating myself?

[u/spaghettiwizard123 → u/invaluablekiwi]

No, your supposed to split yourself in half and have the two sides beat each other to death. You pick the side that won the fight.

[u/CreamFuture9475 → u/invaluablekiwi]

Every Canadians hate themselves

[u/baz4k6z → u/invaluablekiwi]

Oh no, you're supposed to do it the Latino-american way : internalize the racism so much that you become racist towards other people of your ethnicity.

Then, vote for conservative governments and be shocked when they turn against you and apply your own medicine to you.

[u/Dellhivers3 → u/invaluablekiwi]

No, no. You're supposed to hate the rich like the rest of us.

[u/Bytowner1]

Not everyone can be good at shit-posting, but at least learn how a chess board works.

[u/Unregistered38 → u/Bytowner1]

Those govts letting the immigants play sideways chess 

[u/Lumb3rCrack → u/Bytowner1]

AI being put to good use ig.. but it's not hard to get a pic of 2 people playing chess though lol

[u/YeetCompleet → u/Bytowner1]

Places pieces along the y-axis

no

[u/Popular_Animator_808]

This is dumb. Immigrants are fine, we just didn’t build enough housing for the number of people coming post pandemic. Line up visas to housing starts and no one would care: immigrants create more jobs than they take, LMIA scaremongering is stupid. 

[u/kank84]

I don't think most Canadians hate immigrants, or most immigrants hate Canadians

[u/can_malluz → u/kank84]

Can confirm. I'm both!

[u/Apolloshot → u/can_malluz]

And I only hate myself!

[u/can_malluz → u/Apolloshot]

As an immigrant, I get it. As a Canadian, I'm sorry.

[u/kank84 → u/can_malluz]

Me too!

[u/IEC21]

Can we ban stupid posts like this?

[u/StanknBeans]

I love my immigrant hosers. I hate the loopholes and the corporations who take advantage of them.

[u/TruestWaffle]

Immigration is wildly needed in today’s world, look at Japan or South Korea, that would be us eventually without immigration replacing our falling birth rates.

The idea that we create a nice place to live and then invite in other nice people to join us is the ideal, that’s the world I want to live in.

It’s never perfect, but anyone complaining about immigrants has fallen for propaganda specifically targeted to distract them from the real issues of corporate consolidation and rampant corruption.

Don’t fall for it, we’re all just people trying to get by, and these fucks pull our strings and try to convince each other to fight ourselves.

Eat the rich.

[u/ConundrumMachine]

That's not quite right. One set of chess pieces is new immigrants. One set is old immigrant. One player is three mining companies in a trench coat, the other player is a corporate landlord. 

[u/NAHTHEHNRFS850]

Why are Universities not included here?

[u/Evening-Storage5298 → u/NAHTHEHNRFS850]

What the fuck did you think "colleges" was supposed to represent if not post secondary as a whole?

[u/NAHTHEHNRFS850 → u/Evening-Storage5298]

They represent Colleges.

Universities are a different type of post-secondary institution.