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  • I think it’s pretty rare for recent immigrants (first gen, and second gen to a lesser extent) to end up homeless in canada, since they usually are well off financially or have family that can support them. Impoverished people don’t travel internationally. Most non-white non-indigenous people here have been here for only a few decades. Chinese and HK immigrants go back further, but it tracks as there are a number of chinese homeless too.

    (Other ethnic groups also immigrated in past centuries but not to huge populations.)

    Unlike the US, Vancouver doesn’t have a large black population, and the latinx population is not huge either (I mean think about it, we have like 1 good mexican restaurant.)

    I am not an expert, just hypothesising.

















  • 186 employees worked at teen Vogue. 6 were laid off, all(?) were political reporters. Aftermath is that there is now only 1 woman of color on the editorial staff, and if we are to believe the tweet, no trans people remain either. Given the % of population which is black or trans, it should not be surprising that only 6 employees are black women or trans.

    However, I think it reflects poorly on their hiring practices that these minorities were entirely concentrated in “political reporting,” which really betrays what we already knew about rainbow capitalism: minorities are perceived to be political. Teen Vogue must have intentionally concentrated minorities into this one department, rather than hire equitably in all departments.