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princess-guard t1_ixzfqlg wrote

Reply to comment by MattFantastic in Why is it so hard to find an affordable family rental? by No-Sun8788

There are better ways to discuss foreign student population coming in than “all the Chinese students are taking over.” it’s xenophobic and there are better ways of tackling the housing crisis that does not involve blaming a specific race.

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catsmash t1_iy02j08 wrote

i do really cringe whenever this topic comes up simply because it CAN get very racist very fast, but the fact of the matter is that this is a thing that is happening. it's not about "chinese people", it's about a very specific thing that is happening within a very specific class group coming to US colleges from a very specific country.

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EscapeFromTexas t1_ixzzj6d wrote

Fair but when the ads are exclusively in Chinese it’s not a racist observation as much as stating facts.

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