UBC Students Against Bigotry

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"The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” –Albert Einstein

Traditional, ancestral, and unceded Musqueam territory
Joined January 2019

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  1. this is really disheartening to see happening more and more in my home country. Even more so that Discord is such a large role in this, and these kids are my brothers age.. worrying.

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  2. 4 hours ago

    This is a scary fucking article you need to read right now.

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  3. Watch: Inside Canada's new far right

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Over the past months, and I have been researching the activities of an online neo nazi group. They're joining the Armed Forces, infiltrating Conservative parties, and working to create a white ethno-state. Here's what we found.

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  5. 9 hours ago

    4 the far 2many who claim we r over-blowing the threat of white supremacy in Canada. They r our children’s teachers, they serve in our military, they r our fellow workers, they r ur children’s college friends. Wake up, this is a clear & present danger.

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  6. A deep dive into 150,000 messages posted between Feb 2017 and early 2018 on Discord, "an app meant for gamers that is also popular with the far right. The group called itself the Canadian Super Players, apparently to disguise themselves as video gamers."

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  7. Apr 26

    Just off for another national interview about how I'm being silenced. My third of the day, in the second leg of my I'm Being Silenced Extravaganza tour.

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  8. Apr 25

    In the year since the Toronto van attack, has followed the incel movement closely. What he's found is not merely an isolated subculture, but age-old misogyny intersecting with new technologies to reshape our politics and culture.

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  9. Apr 24

    The latest from Dr. Barbara Perry, professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism.

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  10. Apr 22

    When we refer to the Squamish as one of the nations on whose traditional, ancestral & unceded territory the is situated, this is what we're talking about.

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  11. Apr 21
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  12. It's not until you come to understand that these are NOT different battles, that they are in fact interrelated, that the panic starts to recede and you realize you need an analysis that deals with it all.

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  13. When I was younger I often felt very overwhelmed by the number of different battles that need to be fought. Protecting the environment, advocating for migrants, dealing with homelessness, addictions and mental health support, access to justice etc etc etc.

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  14. Apr 21
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  15. Apr 10

    The free speech warriors, who claim to be "left-wing," empower this movement. There is no "intellectual discourse" to be had with white nationalists.

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  16. Apr 10

    So Canada now has white supremacist gangs literally walking around the streets assaulting anti-racist activists and it's not headline news, but cool.

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  17. Apr 7

    "If you're expecting Nazis to look or sound like supervillains, you're likely to be wrong-footed when their evil turns out to be better dressed and less dramatically convenient."

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  18. Apr 7

    "Searching for MAGA symbolism is one of the easiest ways to notice online extremists and members of hate groups, Perry and other researchers have found — a game of 'Where's Waldo?' for racists."

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  19. 51 years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at Memphis' Lorraine Motel. He was in Memphis working on the Poor People's Campaign. We honor his life and the work of the activists carrying on his legacy. Today, .

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  20. Apr 4

    On this day in 1968, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Remembered generally as a charismatic leader of the US Civil Rights Movement, by 1968 he had turned his attention to economic justice and the Poor People's Campaign.

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