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Did I say or imply anything about the race of the immigrants?!

"a flux of African immigrants who in turn have families with 6 to 10 kids. And insignificant new housing. But they choose to bother tourists because it's cool."

Would you have preferred "xenophobic", "nativist", or "bigoted" instead?

No non-Moroccan African countries were even on that list of immigrant populations in Catalonia.

I checked with https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racismo_cultural and indeed even in Spanish "racism" does not specifically require "race":

> El racismo cultural, también denominado «neoracismo» o «racismo diferencial», es una forma de racismo surgida después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en la que la identificación de los grupos humanos no se basa en sus rasgos biológicos (en la «raza», un concepto deslegitimado después de 1945) sino en su cultura, estableciendo una jerarquía de culturas «superiores» e «inferiores» como en el viejo racismo científico.

Check out the user author of those comments. You are replying to a different person. I did not write those words.

Indeed.

So why are you making irrelevant comments which imply you support a racist?

Because immigration does impact housing, no matter the races involved. The questions is: why are you bringing race into this?

Because I was responding to a specific racist claim that certain African immigrants had a much higher impact on the housing problems in Barcelona than the increase in tourism, supposedly backed by numbers, but in fact empty lies.