toraerach
Active Member
Stop allowing these people in to our country, and that would definitely help.
Some of "these people" are gay/bi/trans/otherwise queer themselves. They will have a much easier life here in Canada than they would have in their countries of origin. I'm not defending the attacks, but teenagers are cruel everywhere (whether to the LGBT community, "the fat girl," the kid in a turban, etc.). When I was in highschool, it was overwhelmingly the Canadian-born kids who targetted me, and it was a Canadian-born white kid who spat on this faggot on the streetcar a few months ago. These are a few misguided kids out of a population of thousands of refugee children (if they are indeed refugees) in this city. It is absolutely no reason to become a knee-jerk xenophobe. Afterschool programs, cross-cultural dialogue, Queer-focused campaigns in highschool, etc. will do far more to ensure this behaviour ceases than shutting our borders to the needy and desperate. Racism and xenophobia will do nothing but distance two communities that must live, daily, side-by-side.