The assertion that one is a "victim of the fall of Saigon" is a political assertion that (a) makes a partisan and chauvinistic statement about the nature of the Vietnam war, and (b) an assertion about one's partisan role in that war.

Such assertions when made about generalized groups of Vietnamese such as "the Vietnamese community" or "the Vietnamese refugees" are offensive because they assign people to a political faction based on their ethnicity.

That characterization of Saigon as the victim of the war is one that Canada never held prior to 2015, and so it was not in play when the Vietnamese refugees entered Canada. The boat people crisis of 1979-1997 had nothing to do with the Vietnam war or the fall of Saigon. Canada admitted people from all over Vietnam on a non-partisan basis.

The Vietnamese community is very diverse in terms of war experiences and few people want to talk about it in partisan terms today out of respect for that diversity.^[2] It is offensive to stereotype the community in partisan terms.

It is not accidental that this has become a widely used stereotype. Canadian politician have retroactively decided to put Canada on the side of the Saigon regime in the Vietnam war and now want to imagine that Canada responded to the fall of Saigon as the US did. The government is trying to force Vietnamese Canadians to identify as victims of the fall of Saigon,^[3] which makes the partisan stereotyping all the more offensive.