u/Smart-Scholar-7969

Okay so hear me out.
I just wanted a sandwich, maybe a coffee. I go to the campus food court like any other Tuesday and I’m standing there looking around and I genuinely cannot find a single thing I recognize. Halal cart. Bubble tea place. Some kind of fusion thing with a lineup out the door. And I’m standing there thinking… when did this happen? When did I become the weird one for wanting a BLT?
I know, I know. “It’s just food bro.” Sure. Except it’s not just food and we all know it’s not just food. Food is culture. Food is signal. And the signal being sent on every Canadian campus right now is pretty clear if you’re willing to actually look at it: you are not who we’re designing this space for anymore.
And honestly? That’s kind of the whole thing in a nutshell isn’t it.
Because it doesn’t stop at the cafeteria. It never stops at the cafeteria. You go to class and half your philosophy course is now about why philosophy is problematic. Your history prof spends more time apologizing for Western civilization than teaching it. There are scholarship categories that you don’t qualify for because of your ethnic background and if you point that out you get pulled into a meeting about your “attitudes.” The campus DEI office has a bigger budget than the library. I looked it up.
And then people act shocked when you start connecting dots.
The federal government is importing over 400,000 people a year. Not quietly either, they’re pretty open about it. Toronto and Vancouver are already majority non-European. That’s not a conspiracy theory that’s a census. Your city changes, your campus changes, your food court changes, and if you say “hey this is a lot of change very fast and nobody asked me” you get called a white supremacist on Twitter and your post gets screenshotted into a subreddit about terrible people.
So you just… stop saying it out loud. You say it here instead.
The working class guys I grew up with aren’t on campus writing essays about this. They’re watching their wages get undercut and their towns change and their concerns get dismissed by people with lanyards and LinkedIn profiles who have never once had to compete for a job with someone willing to do it for less. Those guys don’t have the vocabulary that gets you taken seriously in a university essay. So they get written off as ignorant.
But they noticed the sandwich thing too.
I’m just the one writing it down.