#this new affordable housing legislation looks like it has teeth but we'll see

[nokingsonlyfooles]

News Websites Should Not Allow Comments! (A story in pictures)

And now, the comments:

OK. 👍

(Note: The photo with this article has a woman and child in headscarves, as you can see above.) OK. 👍

OK. 👍

NOT OK. 👎☹️

In fact, flagged and never went live even for an instant, because I got into an argument with someone cosplaying as a Nazi Space Lizard recently.

Bonus points, this is the person who wrote the article:

I bet she's not thrilled with her words being turned into a platform for anti-immigrant rhetoric either. Not 100%, because this is all a result of the political/media/corporate fixation on "civility," but if she's boots-on-the-ground covering these issues, I bet she doesn't have the luxury of pretending to be "nice."

Canada's leading news website is apparently Yahoo.com, but CBC News is in second place. They are currently shooting themselves in the foot by providing a safe space for scared conservatives to self-soothe on select articles.

I live in Surrey, it's the first walkable place I've ever lived, and it's been very kind to us. If government intervention manages to bring the rent under control, I'd be willing to stay here the rest of my life. My S/O and I are immigrants too, but native English speakers and fair skinned, so people feel quite safe saying, "Oh? Surrey? That place isn't very nice. *WINK*" It is, in fact, extremely nice, just suffering the same housing and health care shortages as the rest of Canada - and, no, not because there are people here who wear headscarves.

My tax dollars are not being used to fund concentration camps here - that I am aware of - but I still run into people who would happily spend money to make such things a Canadian institution. Noplace is safe, but this is as safe as my little family can afford to get at the moment. Here we are and here we'll stay, and next year we'll end up wherever a new CPA can get a good job and affordable housing. I hope that'll still be here, and I hope here will still be safer than where we were, but there are no guarantees right now. It's real bad right now.

But, if one is trapped in a "fair and balanced, let's give everyone a platform!" liberal news media mindset, just turning off the comments is the fairest, most ass-covering thing one can do. And one should do that.

I gotta get my local news somewhere, so a boycott would not be effective or practical. You'll just have to put up with occasional posts expressing my frustration with Canadian conservatives, until they do the smart thing and turn off the comments.