At least here in vancouver, if you go to east hastings almost every single homeless person is either white or indigenous, despite the official data saying something different. I know why indigenous face these issues, but why so many white people? Is it because most of them originated in a rural area and moved here? The homeless demographic looks completely different than the demographic of the city itself.

Hop the border to seattle and it seems like homeless people are usually black or latino, which makes a lot more logical sense to me.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I think what they mean is when you say “it makes sense”, it sounds like you’re signalling “that’s how it ought to be”.

    Obviously you didn’t mean to convey that meaning, but maybe don’t get into politics.

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      6 days ago

      fortunately, OP is not a politician, doesn’t have to worry about very contrived misreadings.