Can we really blame people for being upset about human beings taking shits and urinating in their spaces? We find it offensive when dog owners don't clean up after their pets, imagine seeing giant human shits and smelling piss stained walls when you go out your door... I can understand people not being sympathetic anymore to others willing to violate their space like that.
BreathingUnderWater
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Jeez this completely changes everything. I went from thinking what a waste of police and court house resources to 100% agreeing with the victim's decision to call the police.
The woman who has been harassing the man and his family saying she would only ever say "Hi" to him, and he would ignore her, as though that's some sort of crime. Gives me "men catcalling women in the street and then getting pissed when the women ignore them" vibes.
That guy doesn't owe her entitled ass a Hello or Hi. Especially if he and his family have been continually harassed. But even then if someone doesn't want to respond to you that's their right.
He should be able to mow his damn lawn without some dickhead neighbour staring him down and making him uncomfortable. It's like she was intentionally trying to provoke him into a reaction.
People of all races love pumpkin spice lattes, what are you talking about? It's not a white person only thing
This is wonderful
Getting bullied is not the same as being a "MINORITY". White kids who are not minorities in North America but get bullied all the time in school. Not eating flesh of a mammal or fish etc doesn't mean you are a "minority". Like I said, I've experienced life as a veggie. Is it annoying? The stupid questions, the comments people make? Yes. But I've never had a cop pull me over and worry about whether I'll die that day because I don't eat beef. Or worry, walking down the street, alone at night as a single woman, if I'll be assaulted because I don't eat chicken. Non-meat-eaters aren't minorities in the sense that they are discriminated against in the idea that the word "minority" conjures up. They deal with, at most, someone tricking them into eating meat. Which I've had done. It felt violating and offensive but wasn't any sort of level as someone who is an actual "minority" in our continent.
That is very true. I've shown some of my friends from smaller towns that image you shared me. They have a hard time believing Ottawa is that huge, it's nice having a visual to prove it.
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what will become of me
I used to be a vegetarian for a decade and then a pescetarian before apathy fully set in and I saw how pointless it all is.
Vegans and vegetarians can be some of the most judgemental gatekeeping assholes out there. Many of them aren't, but the ones that are militant and overbearing are the worst and only push others from their cause. Those ones desperately want to feel better than others, so become borderline eating disordered to elevate themselves to some holy god level in their minds because they eat beans and lentils.
They aren't in the same class as minorities. They choose to eat the diet they do. And no one can visibly tell they are vegetarian/vegan until they tell others they are.
I'm lazy, please help me, what is rule 5
No they aren't all bad. I've had good ones. They were there for us at the drop of a hat to fix things, they didn't over charge. We paid rent on time and they gave us good references for the next places we would move to. My friend currently rents a 1 bedroom apartment for 800$ in a six unit building. They asked the landlord why they don't charge more when they could easily ask 1500$ plus. He said he knows he could but he also is aware that's not in the budget for a lot of Canadians right now. So he only asks for what he needs to cover his own costs. Would you say that landlord is bad? My friend can't afford the upkeep of unexpected home maintenance and utilities on her current budget.
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I remember our high school history teacher beginning our lesson on WWII. A few days into the lesson (explaining the Holocaust and such) We thought we all knew about it already. Then she asked us how many Jewish refugees Canada as a country took in?
We made guesses. A million, one hundred thousand? Canada is a welcoming multicultural country afterall, as we've been taught, so we must have taken a lot!
And then she said Canada took less than a couple thousand Jewish people in. That was quite a shock. The room was silent when she said it. She explained the anti Jewish sentiments of the time. We didn't want them because they weren't Christian. It was so strange to us at the time. Why wouldn't we take them? They needed help. Definitely a strong teaching moment, I've remembered it to this day.
Looked it up and this is the official number I guess: Between 1933 and 1948, less than 5,000 Jewish refugees were allowed into Canada - the smallest number of any Allied nation.
Pitiful.