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    We got some reports/comments looking for context, so I went looking. So far there is this article: https://therover.ca/montreal-police-stand-back-while-man-assaults-photographer/

    There is an open investigation and the person’s identity is known to the police:

    It was only after a video of the incident went viral two days later that Montreal police confirmed it was opening a hate crime investigation.

    Police took the assailant’s identification and let him go. Montreal police did not immediately comment on the assault, but one police source says it’s not uncommon, in situations like these, for police to take down information first and make an arrest at a later date.

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      In the absence of any formal investigation, online vigilantes believe they have found the suspect’s real identity. They linked his photo to social media accounts and a blog with headlines like “CONFRONTATION WITH ISLAMO-NAZI/NON-BINARY BARBARIANS IN MONTREAL” and “ORPHAN JEWS WESTERN CIVILIZATION UNDER SIEGE.”

      The Rover was not able to reach the suspect for comment and therefore will not publish his name. But a search of his name in Quebec’s court database found criminal convictions for armed robbery, drug trafficking and assault among other crimes.

      Pretty easy to find his substack by googling the titles too…

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    Low key the most fucked up part of this is that he’s either recording or streaming the interaction himself, as though HE’S the fucking protagonist.

    These people are pure sociopaths.

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      Depends what you mean by vulnerable, for example setting up a claymore in a Nazis toilet so they quite literally get ass blasted is technically killing someone at their most vulnerable. Not necessarily strong but not weak either. Though I’m being an asshole pedant right now and I fully get what you mean is disadvantaged and undefended populations and/or individuals.

      I wish to give Israel the Serbia treatment.

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        Except it’s not just them and Palestine still around. Maybe if they somehow succeed in their mission of killing everyone else they’ll be the “strongest” but right now they’re far from it.

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      Hate speech is the least of his crimes if his words are true. He should be on trial for what he claims to have done.

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        Where do you think you are, exactly?

        Really hope you people are as energetic about stopping y’know, the genocide here, in this country, that you benefit from. I’m sure you are and it isn’t just an easy performance.

        Edit: lol, yup, that’s what it was. You people are spineless, only vocal about genocide when you’re comfortable knowing most people agree, then you shut up when you get something out of it. Canada is a genocidal state and always has been, shut the fuck up about wanting justice if you think there is anything just about the existence of this country.

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          Dude, you just discovered that the New World was in fact, dominated and colonized by Europeans? Welcome to planet earth my fine son.

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            In your mind, someone criticizing Canadians for their complacency in Canadian colonialism is somehow an indicator that they weren’t aware of colonialism.

            You guys are so fucking easily satisfied, it’s honestly disgusting. I’ve had this community get mad at me for criticizing the US too, y’know, before suddenly you guys woke up and realized it was evil because you were now marginally effected. Same with the EU, and same with Israel.

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              The issue is, what the fuck do you want anyone here to do about it?

              Wail and moan, cover their heads with ash, roll on the floor, pulling their hair out, grovel in contrition over something no one in this day and time had anything to do with? There’s all this rage over the past and the current bullshit that is happening in the here and now and people ARE admitting that yeah… some of us had right rotten ancestors. So… what now?

              What ARE you looking for with these rancid attacks over shit we know the history of? What’s your point that we don’t already know and that many already have come to the same conclusion about?

              I mean if you’re just venting, at least admit it.

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                Hey, bud, read the comment my original comment responded to. These dickheads assumed Canada would be a place where genocide is taken seriously. I don’t care if it makes you uncomfortable, I’m going to call out colonizer shit. These people literally just ignored the fact that Canada supports this genocide by presuming that whatever this guy is doing is punishable. If you all know your history so fucking well, you’d be more consistent.

                Fuckin chud.

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                  No country built on colonialism and supported by capitalism will take an honest, introspective look into genocide.

                  The best that people can work for is to vote for a government that doesn’t support or contine the tradition…

                  Given the absolute moral vacancy of capitalism as it’s being practiced today and basic human greed underpinning it, it’s not going to happen quickly - no matter how impatient you are, and calling it out in rancorous terms just makes people and governments dig their heels in. That is human nature.

                  The kind of profound societal change needed takes decades, maybe even centuries and doesn’t arrive in a burst of righteous indignation.

                  …basically, you can catch more flies with honey, than you can with vinegar.

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                  What a cool stance that’s totally going to make the world better lol

                  You’re very mad about what you think people think.

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            Canada openly supports Israel politically and financially, it is full of white supremacists, and the state classified Hamas as a terrorist organization, this is not a country whose legal system is favourable for anti-fascism.

            Hate speech laws here are also oriented around illegalizing the profit from hate speech or its promotion, not just saying bigoted shit. You guys think this started only when you started noticing?

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    Put him on trial. Prepare the gallows for if his words are true. Should be that simple. Precedents from Nuremberg, Dachau, Krakow etc.

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    That man is ANTI SEMETIC! The one standing there doing nothing and NOT the One saying He’s MURDERING lots of People!

    -The BBC!

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    So when well people stop making excuses for Israelis and Israel.

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    they all think they’re invincible even on camera, because they are, it seems…