Anti-Islam protester thrown into fountain at Danforth shooting memorial in Toronto
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The guy knew what he was doing to protest at that particular location.
I mean he is free to protest but at this location? No sympathy for him.
I mean he is free to protest but at this location? No sympathy for him.
"Not all Muslims are bad people!"
"I don't know about Muslims, I'm talking about Islam!"
Worth throwing him in the fountain just for being fucking stupid alone.
It's the same talking point as "How am I racist?! I'm talking about a religion!""Not all Muslims are bad people!"
"I don't know about Muslims, I'm talking about Islam!"
This is the kind of man that makes me swear like I did in my childhood in 1150 Wien.
Landing in the fountain is perfect IMO, not as violent as a punch, and much more pathetic.
It actually bugs me, because I know it's hypocritical.
Landing in the fountain is perfect IMO, not as violent as a punch, and much more pathetic.
I absolutely agree, and yet, I find it hard to feel bad for this concerned citizen. Probably because I think he deserves bad things and it already happened.
It actually bugs me, because I know it's hypocritical.
Doesn't matter. Violence against protesters is not a good thing.
This should never be the standard, and I'd understand if the guy responsible has to pay a fine or do community service or something.
Still made me smile, I can't help it.
Its a memorial for a tragedy that happened less than a week ago. I don't care about what happens to anyone that brings their bigotry to a place where people are mourning.
I don't want it to get to a point when we start encouraging people to do this with people we disagree with.
State-sanctioned violence? No.
Gun violence? No.
Physical violence that only ends in someone getting thrown in a shallow pool of water? I've seen worse shit at drunk furry parties.
I'm not about to get up in arms over this.
If it happened to a progressive protester I wouldn't be mad either.
Depends on what? What they are protesting? Just because someone is protesting against something you support or agreed with does not mean you should use violence towards them.
I feel like these people are trying to bait others into doing this. So when someone does attack them it becomes a rallying point for their side.
It 100% depends, people that protest in favor of hate must be silenced, violently if need be. In the US people are too sensitive about justifying hate. Every other place I've lived its accepted that you can speak out until you start being a dick and then people will make suee youre shut up.
Everything is a rallying point for the right because they don't actually care about consistent ethical and philosophical standards. They care about destroying the left, thus anything we do is anathema to them.
Stop considering their rulebook as valid.
I do not support violence against protesters, even if I inherently furiously disagree with them. I can't, even if I try.
I'm not going to judge someone doing what happened here, or, for example, someone punching a Westboro Baptist Church person in the face.
I'll be too busy trying not to throw a punch myself.
You don't have to cheer for the people throwing him into the water.
But you also don't have to condemn their very understandable actions.
Just like when that drunk American tourist got beaten on Germany for doing the nazi salute.
No it's definitely a good thing in this case. Good luck convincing anyone otherwise.
Well, we live in a time where actual nazi's rally together, so maybe a little bruised nuckle here and there might solve that situation
THE POOR MAN GOT WET!!! THE VIOLENCE MY GOD!!!
HOW DO YOU PEOPLE SLEEP AT NIGHT?????
Thats ok for you. Just know that people like you are the ones that in other times would see the KKK walk through your cities and defend their right to speech. Even if the day after the march a bunch of minorities get mysteriously killed, still defend their "right" to express themselves.
He was attacking muslims in Toronto. No sympathy
Toronto must be a racist's worst nightmare. Imagine waking up everyday and seeing that the visibile foreign born population within a single city represents the majority of it's citizens.
You can do it, I can't even if I want to.
I don't care if the person got wet. In the end they used violence to get the person wet.
Im sorry Im not a violent person. Some things I will have big problems to do, even if it is simply to throw an anti-islam protester into a fountain.
This is terrible and I absolutely do not condone this.
I mean for one, that fountain is now tainted.
I mean for one, that fountain is now tainted.
That's alright. They were already racist. People "attacking" them didn't suddenly make them more racist. A rallying call only works if you were already trash.
So you and your fellow "think of the racist" are already wrong.
It doesn't. If this rally anyone, they were already racist in the first place. Decent human beings don't do stuff like this, the fact that it might rally other racist isn't true.
Because there's a lot more shitty people in the US than we like admitting, people whose bigotry has been allowed to remain seriously uncontested for centuries despite that same bigotry leading to worse life outcomes for minorities without fail. Many of these people are beloved family members, and it won't take much of a leap for a stranger to consider someone's "lovely grandma" in the same vain as any other viral racist, and no one wants for minorities and their allies to come for their asses next (but god forbid we make Thanksgiving dinner awkward.)
At least, that's just my hunch.