fishie
Active Member
Somebody had toPlease, I'm begging everyone, can we, er, MAY we stop correcting fellow posters on their grammar? It's a tad obnoxious. *waits to be corrected*
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Somebody had toPlease, I'm begging everyone, can we, er, MAY we stop correcting fellow posters on their grammar? It's a tad obnoxious. *waits to be corrected*
That's hardly a loosening of gun laws - just cutting out some of the hoops legal gun owners need to jump through. Won't cause more crime, but will encourage gun owners to stay current and compliant on their permits.
But you can't just look at all immigrants as a unified group … Gays are an easy target because new immigrants are more likely to be devoutly religious, and it speaks to Muslims, evangelicals and Catholics. Government corruption is also an easy sell because of the poor quality if governance that many immigrants have left behind. They know that Indian bureaucrats are corrupt, so makes sense that Canadian ones are as well.
These attitudes fit with recent findings from EKOS that immigrants are slightly less likely (not more) than the Canadian-born to vote Conservative – and markedly more likely to vote Liberal.
This, not only is the new immigrant voter more supportive of the Liberal Party than the Canadian-born voter, but also (according to our evidence) this difference in voting preference has been steadily increasing since 1965.
His wife and daughters appear to be super healthy eaters - veggies, salmon, egg whites, squash, etc. No crap allowed.
Aside from doing exactly what you told me not to do, many leave countries for many reasons, including racial/social/sexual intolerance.
The idea that immigrants tend to vote conservatively is also demonstrably false.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/glob...-blue-the-moment-they-arrive/article16093040/
This is also confirmed in the book "The New Immigrant Voter, 1965-2004: The Emergence of a New Liberal Partisan?", pg 72 (http://books.google.ca/books?id=ttD...q=The New Immigrant Voter, 1965-2004:&f=false):
In short, I'm pretty certain people who are homophobic don't choose to move to one of the most sexually tolerant countries on the planet.
In addition, because of the lower voting rates amongst immigrants, and that those who are motivated to vote are likely to have already voted in previous elections, and the fact that the last 2011 National Household Census said that only about ¼ of Etobicoke's ridings are visible minorities, they'd have to triple (or more) their vote to make up the type of voter mobilization we saw Ford get for the election. Whereas, mobilizing a small group of ignorant bigoted, white, lifelong citizens could easily push him over the edge in those areas.
Given the amount of misogyny I've seen on IHTWOMRF, I'm pretty sure the whole having-a-vagina-thing is a black mark against her anyhow. Some of the most vile, hateful stuff they spew has a sexist lean to it.
All true but the lowest dpv is to target homogenous communities, and that means immigrant religious communities.
Anyway, let's recap the points from last night: Whatever self-restraint we'd seen from Ford's fanboys finally evaporated, and they behaved as violently as expected.
And re the "immigrant question", let us remember who became the figurehead for Ford Nation goon tactics on protesters: Ron Banerjee.
wtf?!highlight of the night:
"i had four beers. Snow was supposed to bring a bag of weed... But he didn't."
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