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Originally Posted by cov
You can't reason with people who never got there with reason in the first place. People who scapegoat widespread problems onto ethnic minorities don't particularly care about expensive housing per se. For example, whatnext is very protective of the Shaughnessy and point grey neighborhoods, which captured huge swaths of Vancouver land for the few most expensive housing sales recorded in Vancouver history. Yet he uses every opportunity to accuse 700sqft condos as luxury housing.
It's plain as day that his problem is with the fact that Asian people exist, and that areas perceived to have Asians are bad whereas areas perceived to be white are good. This type of disingenuous argument pervades the housing conversation in this city. Usually, the more somebody buys into Asian conspiracies the more protective they are of places like Shaughnessey.
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Back in the 1920's instead of paying workers more, the rich would use chinese/japanese as a scapegoat saying that asian workers are stealing from hard working white people and doing their jobs for cheap. They have always been used as a shield by the rich. This is just a repeat, instead of building more housing rich NIMBY's argue that we shouldn't build anything because it will go to asians.
And of course, the poor are dumb and tend to follow the general lead to whatever's easiest. Its a lot more enjoyable and easier to blame an ethnic minority whose a different color than NIMBYs who look the same as you.
Vancouver has already done a few studies about the ethnicity of neighborhoods and its no surprise that rich areas are overwhelmingly white which coloreds are grouped in low income areas. And of course once I pointed this out people began screaming that asians don't pay taxes which is unproven and contradicts stats showing that the van west side reports much higher median incomes.
You can also see that as you go towards Vancouver's richer areas Vancouver gets less diverse and more "white".
https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/discover-one-of-worlds-most-super-diverse-neighbourhoods/
Racist neo-nazis like whatnext have taken over our housing debate and have used it to their own ends to stir anger at minorities spreading misinformation and lies. There are no stats showing an increase in money laundering, there are stats from the BC NDP showing that most money laundered is from local crime, and there are stats showing that foreign buyers represent a few percentage points of buyers while Canadians represent 97%+. In all of America their foreign buyer rate is ~5% double whats seen in Vancouver. In London it goes between 10-20%. Most of the 🞵🞵🞵🞵 going around is plain lies created by a story teller and backed by falsehoods. And of course NDP supporters lap it up because the NDP is a socialist party dedicated to targeting groups to hate, first it was the rich and now its the Chinese. Just like Maduro first targeted foreign corporations then he targeted the rich and then he targeted small business owners.
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