Hi friend, and I mean that sincerely, I’m truly sorry that you weren’t able to get into Canada. And I hear you about the attitudes towards Indians… It’s abhorrent and a product of the anti-immigrant rhetoric that the right wing has imported from the US.
One of my best friends immigrated from India a couple of decades ago. He married a childhood friend and they slowly built a life together, now own 60 acres and have two kids. Hearing his story made me proud of this country, and I believe we are hurting ourselves by letting partisan reactionaries set the message on immigration. My family on my mother’s side immigrated from Eastern Europe after WW2. I’m first generation, so I understand what immigrant families go though, and especially the work ethic that the majority of them embody.
I hope you do not give up, and please, please stay safe. I react strongly to the increasing American threat, but it’s easy to forget there are people like you who never wanted any of this. I hope you can join us soon.
I’m writing about specific people in a specific situation so I’d rather not go into a ton of detail but there were housing and work situations where any cooperation would have made all the difference for us.
Because frankly the ideology of our current crop of right wing loons is a carbon copy of the US, and the US funds our right wing think tanks and NGOs.
In short they use the same tactics of dishonesty, fear and scapegoating to manipulate the public and create the same division and mistrust of government. We can see where it leads.
By the way we didn’t vote the right wing into power, we dodged a bullet.
Hi friend, and I mean that sincerely, I’m truly sorry that you weren’t able to get into Canada. And I hear you about the attitudes towards Indians… It’s abhorrent and a product of the anti-immigrant rhetoric that the right wing has imported from the US.
One of my best friends immigrated from India a couple of decades ago. He married a childhood friend and they slowly built a life together, now own 60 acres and have two kids. Hearing his story made me proud of this country, and I believe we are hurting ourselves by letting partisan reactionaries set the message on immigration. My family on my mother’s side immigrated from Eastern Europe after WW2. I’m first generation, so I understand what immigrant families go though, and especially the work ethic that the majority of them embody.
I hope you do not give up, and please, please stay safe. I react strongly to the increasing American threat, but it’s easy to forget there are people like you who never wanted any of this. I hope you can join us soon.
Good for your friend and your parents. Lots of 1st generation people could have helped us and didn’t.
Anyway, don’t wish for my safety. Do not let these fascists have an inch in Canada. Not a bleeding inch.
How could first generation people have helped you?
I’m writing about specific people in a specific situation so I’d rather not go into a ton of detail but there were housing and work situations where any cooperation would have made all the difference for us.
Why do you guys blame your own right wing politicians on the US? You voted them in, right?
Because frankly the ideology of our current crop of right wing loons is a carbon copy of the US, and the US funds our right wing think tanks and NGOs.
In short they use the same tactics of dishonesty, fear and scapegoating to manipulate the public and create the same division and mistrust of government. We can see where it leads.
By the way we didn’t vote the right wing into power, we dodged a bullet.
Elections in USA are fake dude, we don’t have primaries or anything anymore.