Posted on 09/28/2016 7:33:11 AM PDT by jerod
'Overt racism' alleged in online comments following death of Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook
A complaint alleging that an Ottawa police officer posted racist comments about Indigenous people and the death of Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook is under investigation.
Gatineau, Que., resident Veldon Coburn made the complaint Sunday night after he noticed two comments on an Ottawa Citizen article about the death of Pootoogook, a celebrated Inuk artist whose body was found in the Rideau River last week.
The comments, which Coburn noted were "troubling for the overt racism of the text" were posted from the Facebook account of Chris Hrnchiar, who Coburn noted appeared to be an Ottawa police sergeant. Coburn called this "distressing."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
The CBC does not allow commenting on the following topics:
Any story related to Indigenous People (including the above story)
Any story related to the bilingual language debate
Any story regarding Justin Trudeau (when the CBC assumes there will be negative commenting toward him)
There are other stories they pick and choose from as well where they disallow commenting.
It's sad to see a once respected news organization participating in the elimination of free speech, but I guess it's the new 'sunny ways' Trudeau promised to enact for the betterment of debate and discord. He may call it 'sunny ways', I prefer the more factual reference for such a policy... Censorship.
Yep. Someone needs to re-read the constitution, me thinks.
“posted from the Facebook account of Chris Hrnchiar, who” ... has way too many consecutive consonants in his name.
Why would Canadians need to re-read our constitution?
Yer right.
‘Racism’ is a word that needs to be removed from our Lexicon.
It is so fluid in meaning as to have no meaning at all except to bash whites.
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