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Puerto Rico passed a tax incentive to attract people. It attracted them. 
Then apparently some locals didn't like the newcomers.

OK. Please explain:

(1) How is this different from hating immigrants?
(2) How is this not what Puerto Rico itself voted for?
(3) Why would they not change the policy if they didn't want it?
(4) Did you personally "drive someone from their home" — or did you maybe just rent an apartment? 🙂 

In general, I want to point out that it's "immigration" when you like the people coming and "gentrification/colonization" when you don't. It's just Russell Conjugation, a prejudging of the conclusion via vocabulary.

All that said, on the substantive point, I do absolutely agree there should be the best possible relationship between newcomers and pre-existing inhabitants. Many ways to solve for this, including:

(a) actually new land, like Dubai's artificial islands
(b) essentially uninhabited land ceded by the state
(c) economic/cultural relationships w/ local communities

And so on.

It's a finely nuanced point here, and I have no specific knowledge about Puerto Rico or this incident. 

I don't think it's probably fair to reduce it to such blanket statements, however. All of your statements assume: 

- politics and governments are actually fair
- the externalities and impacts of decisions are clearly vetted
- local minority groups are properly represented and have agency in policy decisions at this scale

I think it's reasonable to say that the way the people who were actually involved felt about what they were doing is more reflective of cultural best interests than statements that make such unlikely assumptions.

I also think that people are slow to embrace change, so there's value in examining the perspective dichotomy of immigration vs gentrification, so I appreciate the push back here, even if I think it exaggerates just a little.

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Sometimes things only appear over simplified, so if he can back up his seemingly reductionist statements that's one thing. 

But it's another popular method to simply control the narrative, as well, so it can become a big turnoff, like you're saying.

I don't follow him, but I thought this particular discussion was interesting to read through.

Welcome to the world of Balajilogic. 

All valid points in your account trigs

He used to be more nuanced, but lately I’ve found his takes to be variations of these kinds of statements.