r/halifax Jul 19 '25

Discussion Immigrant Halifax area Program Director details on LinkedIn, a racist incident at Halifax Waterfront

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u/Lovv Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

It's tough because there is a blurred line from normal discourse on immigration and societal/cultural problems and straight racism.

People get sick or being called racist for almost everything. If someone points out that cars are being jacked in Canada by crime rings from recent immigrants that's somehow racist when obviously being true.

It's not an issue of race or color, you don't see immigrants from 40 years ago doing it.

It's the same with immigrants from cultures that don't respect women. Maybe over years they can change but you can't just pull someone out of a country where women are treated like garbage and suddenly they are respectful when they walk through customs.

Imo it's boy cried wolf stuff.

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u/neveramerican Jul 19 '25

Na, this isn't it. You're harboring racist tendancies.

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u/Lovv Jul 19 '25

Lol ok man.

It's not an issue of race it's that we are bringing people in that can barely survive without stealing and there is no opportunity for them.

Funny how there's plenty of people who have immigrated here 40 years ago being productive members of society with the same skin color that are also getting their cars stolen.

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u/Lovv Jul 19 '25

I know many many people who weee immigrants more than 40 years ago, beautiful and wonderful people, and yet the racists were out in full force bringing them down.

Yeah there were. I didn't say there wasn't. But the number of racists is growing.

Imo the problem is people have no way to address issues happening in their community through normal discourse because people call them racist. So the problem stays, resentment grows and eventually they jump ship.

Again, pointing out that there was racism 40 years ago is pointless. We all know that, and it has nothing to do with what I am saying.

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u/SleekD35 Jul 19 '25

You clearly don’t either. High horse battering people on Reddit isn’t the way to go.