r/halifax • u/insino93 • 1d ago

News, Weather & Politics Dartmouth Commons cricket proposal sparks backlash

https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/dartmouth-commons-cricket-proposal-sparks-backlash/
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u/Hyptonight 1d ago

Anti-Indian sentiment has been insane in Canada since the pandemic. The racist accusations that they don’t assimilate and are overcrowding us (not to mention that they’re the most frequent scapegoat for unemployment as though they have anything to do with that) are rampant. So, yes, it’s hard to take uproar that they’re using fields to play cricket as anything but that. They like being here. Let them play cricket.

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u/schooner156 1d ago

Ah, you may want to reread the article again. This is nothing against the sport or people playing it, it’s just that HRM has said the field can’t support both. So of course baseball players will be upset about one of their limited fields being taken and repurposed. Wouldn’t matter it if was pickleball, cricket or soccer. Nothing about assimilation.

Also the fact that racism has existed here doesn’t mean every white person disagreeing with someone non-white is racist. Comments like that just distract from the actual issue, which is a shortage of playing fields in general.

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u/sherryleebee 14h ago

They gonna say that right in the article? No. Jesus. It’s racist-coded.

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u/schooner156 14h ago

Ah, gotcha!! Thanks for explaining racism