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provoost | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 White supremists make into parliaments plenty of times. I've also never seen a single member of parliament in any country with a solid understanding of statistics. The man makes it very clear he's obsessed with race, as shown by the first screenshot.

Anti-semitism has been on the rise in various places in recent years. Legal Muslim immigration is a factor, as are woke activists* and Trump.

* = in part because woke ideology tends to lead to anti-semitic conclusions with regards to Jewish white men in high positions, in part because they block any serious law enforcement action against jihadists and other intolerant behavior
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pkt | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Trump? Lolwut? Trump isn't anti-Semitic. He opened his speech at Nashville with a somber statement decrying at attack on Israel that had happened earlier that day.

Woke ideology hates Jews because Jews are spectacularly successful. Same reason woke ideology classifies Asians as white these days. Asians and Jews, among others, show that black underachievement is not due to racism.

Speaking of... In my previous job, at an extremely high end geophysics startup, with most employees being exceptional at what they did, out of my ~10 most direct coworkers ~5 of them were first generation immigrants born outside Canada. (White) South African, Russian, Chinese, Korean (IIRC), and Iranian. My boss – an exceptionally good engineer – was Greek (IIRC, 2nd generation). I'm probably forgetting a person or two born in the US too.

Canada has obviously done really well importing highly skilled people. But that's the thing: highly skilled. The only person I knew at that company who didn't get into Canada on pure merit was an Iranian refugee, and he was one of the least skilled people there. Hell, the South African was so good at what he did that he managed to get _two_ extra citizenships (Canadian and UK) through merit-based immigration before he retired.