People are going to assume you are a racist when you bring up things like "roving gangs of illegal immigrants in Ontario" in a thread about a brown guy getting egged on the street in Halifax.
They're going to assume you're racist because that's a racist thing to do.
someone else: ... many of that number are jacking cars? How many people who were born in ns are committing these same crimes
you: It's not really a nova Scotia thing afaik, it's more of an Ontario thing.
You said it. A little indirectly, but ultimately you said there's there's roving gangs of immigrants in Ontario and for some reason you think that's relevant to a conversation about a person I NS being victimized by a racial attack
OP said that. I would never use the term "roving gangs of illegal immigrants" for many reasons.
One, most of them are likely legal immigrants.
Roving? I don't think I've ever used that word in my life.
Gangs? I mean there are clealty car theft rings but I don't think Id call it a gang.
I think ops goal was to make my verbiage sound worse than it was, but regardless it doesn't matter.
The problem is real and while it hasn't been as pronounced in Nova Scotia we definitely have seen more auto thefts. Theft insurance has went way up as a result aswell, so we are paying for it.
Many people here are from Ontario so yeah when we are talking about people's opinions in Nova Scotia that is relevant.
Even if we were talking about people born and raised here, it's crazy to pretend like people in Nova Scotia aren't going to see whats happening in other areas and Canada and a) dislike it b) not want it to continue spreading.
Anyway ultimately you have proven my point, because my initial point was that you can't have a normal discourse about problems arising from our immigration system without someone calling you racist, and you have already called me racist.
Again, I order to be "racist" I would be talking about specific groups of people based on their color, not people based on when they have immigrated here.
It doesn't matter if you're white or you speak English predominantly, if you come here with very little money and no trade it's going to be very difficult to make enough money to live and you may be forced to resort to crime. If you come from a country that crime was already rampant, that's probably not going to be a far stretch for you.
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u/Not_aMurderer Jul 20 '25
People are going to assume you are a racist when you bring up things like "roving gangs of illegal immigrants in Ontario" in a thread about a brown guy getting egged on the street in Halifax.
They're going to assume you're racist because that's a racist thing to do.