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Right… calling your foolishness out in a Lemmy thread alongside everyone else hereabouts is really doing a number on the English language. Will someone please think of the dictionaries in lieu of calling out this racist POS?

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You might want to look up the definition of “racist” again, because you clearly didn’t understand it the first time.

I don’t have a problem with immigrants, brown people, green people, yellow people, or any people. What we’re talking about is the number of immigrants being let in during a time of a cost of living and housing crisis - that’s it. Anything else is purely your imagination and trying to find racism where it doesn’t exist.

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- Hominine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You’re blinkered by racist propaganda.
  
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  - FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    What have I said that is racist or “propaganda”?
    
    Do you think that pausing immigration would help with the housing availability crisis? Yes or no?
    
    Do you think adding 1500 people a day to the country affects housing availability and affordability?
    
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    Hominine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Racist propaganda that is easily debunked.
    
    One claim which spread online was that Australia was bringing in 1,500 new overseas arrivals each day. That claim was advanced by some conservative media outlets and picked up traction online among some supporters of the rally. But Rizvi and Gamlen said the number was inaccurate, and a misunderstanding of migration figures. That figure, they said, referred to overseas arrivals and departures (OAD) data – which is more about tourist arrivals than migrants. Media and online commentary about the issue led the Australian Bureau of Statistics to last week issue a stern rebuke and fact check, saying the use of OAD data “does not reflect the official ABS definition of migration and may lead to inaccurate conclusions on migration”. OAD data “is a count of border crossings rather than migration. It is best used to understand patterns in traveller movements, such as tourism trends and seasonal travel,” the ABS said. The bureau noted that someone on a temporary visa, who travelled in and out of Australia multiple times, would count as a visitor several times “even though they only migrated here once”. Rizvi said the use of that number by migration critics was “nonsense”.
    
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