The demonization and criminalization of people without housing is critical here. The unspoken logic that pulls this all together is the reality that poor people can’t afford bail, so they stay locked in jails without convictions, and that’s how these people *want* it to work.

I was in abbotsford (where dreamer is from) earlier this summer & it put world / internet politics in such a funny & insane light. If some faillenial TWU grad sees 3 or more sikh uncles meandering the Mill Park lily pad bridge then the US VP becomes slightly more likely to push for pogroms that week

A significant part of the clanker meme is people who have had slurs deployed against them joking about doing it to robots. Eg a bunch of the videos are young black guys doing "look who's coming to dinner" routines

The NPR writer is not seeing people doing something and of her own accord declaring that this constitutes a slur. She is covering a trend where the whole gimmick is, explicitly, to come up with slurs for computers *as if* you were doing inter-human discrimination

You're making a fool of yourself here man. NPR is covering a meme where the jokes involve a) imagining being "racist" to ostensibly sentient robots in a future scifi society, & b) applying that to the obviously nonsentient current robots ppl deal with, like self-checkouts &chatbots & automated calls

Lol I don't think I need to be condescended to by a guy who apparently can't manage to parse a fluff piece on a meme

...that's the joke man

Like I think a non-negligible amount of racist incitement on twitter might be traceable back to the fact that lauren southern and captive dreamer happen to be from 2 of the only 4 notable Canadian municipalities with a double-digit percentage of punjabi speakers

genuinely think it's probably at least partly related to so many of the big english-language rightwingers being Canadian

The documents were obtained after a 15-month struggle during which the FOIP request was "lost," delayed, ordered released by the OIPC, released for $1,133 payment, then delayed again.

Two weeks after the order, the police chief & two deputies resigned.

All resignations remain unexplained. 4/

I'm just not really seeing a contradition here. The article doesn't actively doubt the cops but it keeps the specific claims tying the suspect directly to the crime, like the quote, within the realm of "police say"

The article takes most of the same precautions the headline does though. I'm not seeing much of a disconnect there. And the purpose is just to not lock in information that hasn't been second-sourced or video-confirmed esp when that information is related to legal responsibility

What's the benefit of explicitly making that leap though? Any reasonable reader is going to make the inference immediately, & imo this isn't a case of normalized road injury where the media & public are so exonerative of drivers that there's real social value in emphasizing driver responsibility

(Unless the police are obviously trying to exonerate / downplay their own role ofc, and then the reverse type of adjustment is needed, but coming from the same place of automatic caution around the police press machine)