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Originally Posted by Jalapeño Chips
You people should stop defending criminals. The real estate market has been fueled by the dirty and murderous Chinese, their gangs and corrupt officials. I say raise the foreign and speculation taxes to triple digits until we clean up this shit. This will fuel huge divisiveness and yes, racism. It's fucked up, and anyone defending this is a douche. We need this stopped and out of our country.End of story.
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"The stately $17-million mansion owned by a suspected fentanyl importer is at the end of a gated driveway on one of the priciest streets in Shaughnessy, Vancouver’s most exclusive neighbourhood.
A block away is a $22-million gabled manor that police have linked to a high-stakes gambler and property developer with suspected ties to the Chinese police services.
Both mansions appear on a list of more than $1-billion worth of Vancouver-area property transactions in 2016 that a confidential police intelligence study has linked to Chinese organized crime."
https://globalnews.ca/news/4658157/f...-police-study/ |
Well, let them buy up the expensive houses, then come swoop in and confiscate those houses when they can't show where they get the proceeds from. It would be a huuuge bonanza for our city and province!
Why so negative? Don't you trust your own elected officials to do the right thing?
Or would you rather be transported back in time to the 1930s Nazi Germany where it was so easy to place the blame on one single group of people? Just pray you're not born a Jew then.
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Originally Posted by 240glt
I do wonder if there aren’t different cultural norms and values at play here, maybe things seen as unacceptable here are not taboo over there
In Edmonton a large majority of the slumlords in this city are Chinese, and generally they are awful people who take advantage of vulnerable people and don’t care about the impacts that their businesses have on others, and many have criminal ties. They are extremely greedy and entitled. I’m in no way saying that all Chinese people are like that but there does seem to be a certain proclivity for some subsets of that population to do these types of things.
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That's how it all started in Nazi Germany: "My neighbours are Jews and I have good Jewish friends, but those loansharks out there in central Berlin are just so greedy and murderous, preying on the poor folks that just went through the depression!".
Read this:
Adolf Hitler Had Jewish Landlord for Over a Decade, German Historian Says
According to the research, Hitler treated his Jewish landlord 'with courtesy' despite harboring strong anti-Semitism
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...says-1.5459123
According to a German historian, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler lived in a house owned by a Jewish merchant for almost a decade.
Hitler lived at Thierschstrasse 41 in Munich's Lehel district from 1920 until 1929, interrupted by a year spent at Landsberg prison for staging a failed coup in Bavaria, historian Paul Hoser said.
Writing in the quarterly VfZ, Hoser said the house was bought in 1921 by Hugo Erlanger, who lost the house in 1934 after falling behind on mortgage payments.
According to the research, Hitler treated his Jewish landlord "with courtesy" despite harboring strong anti-Semitism that would later contribute to the Nazi's murderous policy toward Jews.
Erlanger survived the war and was able to get his house back in 1949.
The research was first reported on Saturday by Der Spiegel magazine.
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