What are your opinions on this Not Just Bikes comments on "fixing" North America? - eviltoast
  • varzaman@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is one of the main reasons I don’t really like the channel.

    I like the content, I like the ideas presented. That is why I watch it.

    I kinda don’t like the guy though.

    He also has major grass is greener syndrome in that he has distilled his entire life seemingly to the specific issues he talks about in the video and nothing else.

    Like the Netherlands is his main place right? Well they are pretty damn racist over there. Even if it isn’t in your face, it’s always subtle. And to other white people. Romanians and Bulgarians get discriminated against all the time.

    Example: My cousin gf (Romanian) applied for housing as as she now has an internship. Over email and the phone she was told yea there are many units available.

    First time she goes to talk to them in person, all of a sudden nothing is available. Listings still show housing availability lol.

    Her English is pretty good, but she has a clear accent.

    So she makes my cousins (her bf) go in person. Except he doesn’t tell them he’s with her. He has better English, more neutral accent. There are units available of course.

    Lol.

    I’m glad he refers people to other resources to check out, but……I just don’t like his attitude lol.

    • Javi_in_4k@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I was literally about to bring this up. You can tell he’s a white dude with his whole “move to Europe” argument. That’s only feasible to white people. Europe is way more racist than the US. Imagine how they would react to black and brown inner city residents moving over to Europe.

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t heard such a bad case of racism before to be honest, but you’re somewhat right about racism. Although I don’t think it’s completely ungrounded, there’s a lot of immigrants here, out of which not all are such good workers. Although that obviously doesn’t say anything about your cousin’s girlfriend

      • varzaman@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Not even trying to say the Netherlands is a bad place or anything. My point was more to bring up the idea that our “just not bikes” friend is really focusing on a narrow list of things, when there are many reasons to not move somewhere new.

        His idea that we should all abandon North America is just wild to me lol. There are so many other things to take into account.

        My salary would drop by almost half if I got an equivalent job in Europe. Bro, this is why I live in the US to begin with lol.