| > complaining about immigrants. Perhaps it’s convenient to blame other people. So, this is conflating two completely different issues, in a rather counterproductive way. There is "complaining about immigrants", which is racist stuff like "I don't like the fact that the composition of my neighborhood is changing, I don't like the fact that the people from other places are different than me, I don't like that my school has to hire a Mandarin interpreter for parent council meetings". Then there's a completely different thing, complaining about unsustainable immigration levels. Which has nothing to do with disliking the immigrants themselves, and might even involve a great deal of concern about their welfare. This is what you get when the situation is so bad that even Ukrainian refugees want to go back to Ukraine because they didn't realize how hard it would be to fend for themselves in Canada. As one person aptly put it, this is the kind of complaint that happens when a host invites a hundred guests to a party and only orders three pizzas. You aren't complaining because you don't like the other guests, you're complaining because the host's all-are-welcome attitude is completely irresponsible when they have no intentions of making accommodations available. |
Most of the housing crisis is a result of politicians and homeowners refusing to cede even one plot of land for any building denser than a detached single family house. The other week on Twitter, a city councilmember from Toronto/some major Canadian city was complaining about an apartment tower being "out of scale with the neighbothood" as though 90th percentile incomes were still sufficient to get a loan for a house.