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What a meh take on things. "We filled in a form, why isn't Canada launching an aggressive James Bond-like campaign to go against the regional government (Israel) and extract my family members?!?!?! YOU MUST BE RACIST!!!". Canada didn't do that shit during WWII: my grandparents had to foot the bill to smuggle their siblings out of nazi-fying germany. Canada generally hasn't/doesn't do clandestine extraditions on behalf of individuals, except in very rare circumstances. It isn't racism. Not everything is racism.
Comparing Ukraine refugees, who were leaving a country generally on their own dime and with the ok of the regional power (Ukraine was cool with it), to Gaza refugees is bonkers. If the Gaza population could as easily board a plane and head elsewhere, maybe that comparison would have some merit. But they can't, and ignoring the issue of a regional government that's opposed to allowing these people free movement, and instead claiming it's because of Racism in Canada is utter and complete bullshit. It leans into the idea that this group is often a security risk -- they play a racism card, attempting to sow discord in Canada, for their own interests.
And as for generally being considered a security threat, who's fuckin fault is that I wonder? The number of people I've met who've come to Canada, and then maintained all their own "cultural" baggage is absurd. Shit heads goin viral for comments like "We don't have to obey Canadian laws, cause soon Muslims will out number you here and we'll have Sharia instead" kinda crap. Or the numerous cases in the media of recent immigrants committing heinous acts. And LOTS of the folks from that region have a ton of baggage. We don't want to import local regional conflicts and strife, nor religious zealots -- there's no benefit for Canada to do so.
Except, Ukraine legitimately did get an unusually generous special program for visas, and Palestinians have to prove they have family financial support, which has never been required of anyone else.
Cool Shariah-baiting in the last paragraph. You make the tabloids proud.
dur dur, let's ignore the regional government comments, and the differences in how easy it is to sort out the logistics, to continue the narrative that Canada racist! Canada brought in tons of immigrants recently and fucked up the economy for everyone, health care system straining, and infrastructure unable to keep up with influx of people unable to contribute meaningfully to the economy for decades to come... causing them to pivot focus onto the internal struggles and trade wars that are ongoing, and the need to build up internal resiliency... but that's not a factor! They're just racists!!
And it's not tabloid shit. Here in Vancouver, we've literally had recent immigrants rape/murder kids in Central Park in the recent past. Guess which area of the world the perp was from. Like we have Chinese nationals literally going to our courts, openly admitting to all the fraud involved with their immigration paths because "that's how its done in Canada", and yet it's racist to call it out. We literally had a Cullen Inquiry into all the money laundering, and one of its findings was that the people in charge of 'oversight' had been guilted into letting things slide after being accused of being racists.
So fuck any call about racism, or any attempt to use the racism card to get preferential treatment, when you're intentionally ignoring the realistic conditions that make this case totally fucking different. Go eat a bag of multi-colored ethnically diverse dicks.
Do you seriously think that white Canadian born citizens never rape or murder? Hello - does the name David Snow ring any bells? Clifford Olson? Robert Picton? Russell Davies?
Did I say white Canadians don't somewhere? No? Oh, well, then I guess I can respond with something equally asinine?
There's nothing wrong with wanting immigrants to Canada to respect Canadian laws / systems / culture. And to leave their stupid baggage back in their home country. Having a vetting system / screens in place to try and ensure that's the case is not a bad thing, even if there are already issues in the country.
Oh, right, the asinine part -- I guess you're the sort of person who's totally cool with letting ISIS people, people who kept slaves and murdered folks for religious reasons, come back to Canada like no big deal. You seem keen to allow every murderer there is in, and to give em free tax-payer funded health care etc. No, wait, you likely aren't that much of an idiot, and it isn't hard to imagine that you aren't, but by god let's make sure we take the most extreme dumbarse perspective possible online!
Did I say I was keen to allow ISIS people who keep slaves and murder for religious reasons to come in? No, I did not. You specifically mentioned rape and murder of children, which immigrants are not any more likely than Canadians to do. You seem to be a very frightened little man, scared of anyone the least bit different.
Holy hell you have the reading comprehension of a gnat. I used that example specifically to highlight how YOU were bringing in shit that wasn't stated in the post, ie "White people commit crimes too, don't you realise that?". Like no shit sherlock, both of us can play the "lets ignore the other persons actual comments and draw absurd conclusions based on totally unrelated biases and then lob some personal attacks against them" game.
Go read a book.