Lone Primate
Active Member
Under Liberal & Conservatives Canada admitted ~300k immigrants a year, 1% of population. The vast majority of Canadians including me see enormous value in that.
I'm personally chuffed to hear that. I'm glad.
This habit of calling Conservatives (or Republicans) racist is divisive and dangerous.
Hold it, hold it, hold it. This is to suggest we're not supposed to call people out on things like this. Now, it's not the fault of other people, or other parties, if particular ones seem to attract, aim sly rhetorical devices at, and suggest tailoring certain policies and programs at, such people. I mean, be honest here. Who's screaming "Build that wall!"? It's not the kind of people who vote the way I do.
We walk a fine line here. If the stink is on the fish, and that gets called out, then maybe some people will go 'say, it does,' and go buy chicken instead. And then maybe the fishmonger will clean up his stall. Nothing will change, though, if we stop pointing out the flies that infest one place but not another and question what makes the difference. That said, I don't want to hear these things coming out of parties I'm more apt to identify with, either, and I'm not going to make excuses for them if/when I do. I want those days behind us.
The other group using the term 'racist' are virtue-signaling whites trying to demonstrate they morally superior to lower class whites.
What does it have to do with class? A xenophobe who doesn't want people in our country who don't look like him/her is the same whether he/she has ten bucks in the pocket or ten million in the bank.