10-04-2023, 05:01 AM
(10-03-2023, 08:13 PM)plam Wrote: The other thing is that people seem to be more willing to translate online hate into in-person hate. The NZ election is in less than two weeks and e.g. a Te Pāti Māori candidate has had her house broken into twice.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...aign-trail
NZ has traditionally been a pretty no-need-for-security place (Christchurch attacks notwithstanding?)
Waterloo Region? I have no idea. I'm not there right now, and even if I was, I would be in my own bubble (as many of us are).
Yeah, we really are...
It was kinda eye opening for me when one of my friends in my grad program told me she wasn't comfortable visiting the market in Kitchener. I know the area is rough, but on market day it's so busy that it feels perfectly friendly to me. But I've never had racial slurs shouted at me....or had an egg thrown at me...as she had...