This is the same city that charged a man for drawing a swastika in gravel with a pressure washer.
Attack and harass a random woman and her two daughters in public, traumatizing them. Proudly admit on camera that you are a racist and you face no legal consequences. Draw a stupid symbol and you’re charged with one count of offence motivated by hatred.
It’s not editorialized. It cuts to the chase and gets to the point in fewer words.
In that case why bother with making a post that is a link to the CBC article? Write a post with your own text. You can link to the CBC article as a source.
It’s just bad etiquette to mix the two. Either post the article (with the original title) and add your comments underneath. Or post a text article of your own with whatever title and content as you like and cite the article and any other sources that make sense to you.
It’s lemmy… social media. Not an educational institution nor an assignment.
Which is why we ourselves must curate the conventions of our own communities, as opposed to some teacher. Which is why I talked about etiquette.
I don’t think etiquettes are necessary in every instance in life. Certainly not when shitting on white supremacists and the system that protects them.
Look bud, we share the politics, ok? I’m not asking you to maintain etiquette towards the asshole in the article. I’m asking you to maintain it towards this community. Keep the Community Centre/Infoshop/Union Hall tidy, you know what I mean?
Yea, I hear ya. It wasn’t malice or targeted towards anyone.
One dude got mad at me and accused me of racist propaganda and stoking racial tensions. A total wtf moment but I was glad it made people Feel a certain way. One way or another.
This incident happened in the same city where an asshole thought its his duty to mow down a random innocent family because they weren’t white. Then a significant number of people in the country got mad at the government for the government “getting involved” and paying for their funeral and whatnot. Cops in that city think it’s okay for a proud white supremacist christan to attack a random muslim woman and her 2 daughters without any legal consequences. Plenty of people agree with that assessment and I know it’s mostly because of their bias against muslims.
Anyway, it reached more eyes. Partly because of the engagement due to the title making people react. Mission accomplished without anyone getting hurt.
Islamophobia gets way too much of a pass… Way way way too much to the point it turns murderous and we still scratch our butts like idiots.