Mexico’s homicide rate is 13x higher than Vancouver’s
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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PPsmol is a despicable liar.
Why does he mimic trumps dementia?
If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
"I met a lady at the airport..."
No you didn't. Stop making up bullshit glurge stories, you pathetic lying shit-for-brains wannabe fascist.
So... he met a demented lady and took her word that Mexico is safer than Vancouver? I guess that's a thing to get on national media to say 🤨
Good for her.. anyways..
Who?
Really wow, what was he doing in Mexico?
What an absolute moron. He's never talked to Mexicans that have moved here.
See, you can tell who is actually pretty well aligned with him by their response to this. If the immediate reaction is to be insulted that Canada could ever resemble what is imagined as a global south state like Mexico (yes, even if crime measurements show us that it is in fact true that crime rated are higher there nationally), then they are responding from a place of white aggrievenement. The point of this line is to convince racist Canadians that Vancouver is in a crisis because it resembles Mexico, so if your response is to accept that this is an insult to Canada, you are close enough to his target audience to still accept the narrative.
This means that of your only issue with this is that it is statistically unsubstantiated, good job, you've shown your values. Yes, it is statistically unsubstantiated, but he isn't using Mexico in this way because the evidence is sound, he's using it because many Canadians are racist and do not understand the causes and meanings behind those statistics. Crime rates are higher in the US too, and yet he's using Mexico. Besides this, you've taken for granted the fact that Canadians go to resorts in Mexico, and therefore would likely feel safer there than the street of a big city here. You've then accepted the notion that Mexico is homogenously and universally more dangerous by that presupposition, which reaffirms reductive and white supremacist perceptions of Mexico and Latin America generally.
Be careful about how people criticize things; even true criticism can carry harmful narratives and motivations. Part of the point of these obviously untrue statements is to reaffirm all of the values that make its purpose legible to you, which means they're betting on you taking, "of course Canada isn't like some brown country like Mexico, the crime rates are higher there," as substantial criticism because it appeals to your most intuitive internalized values.
another troll blocked