Posted on 02/12/2025 4:35:07 PM PST by Angelino97
Copies of a book promoting white nationalist ideology have been placed in community-run library boxes in neighbourhoods in parts of Ottawa, prompting a police investigation.
Christine Young found several copies this month when she checked out a few little free libraries near her home in Barrhaven.
Little free libraries, put at curbside by homeowners, are an invitation for anyone to leave and take a book.
Young, a federal government consultant, never expected to repeatedly come across the same book — one that denounces immigration, multiculturalism, advocates for a white ethnostate in which racialized communities would be classified as second class citizens.
"I thought, 'This can't be what I think it is. I must be in a bad headspace,'" Young said. "Then I found a second [little library] with the same book."...
"I can't believe we have white supremacists in the area. It's disgusting. I got so mad, I tore up the book. I didn't want it in my house."
Young reported her findings to the Ottawa Police Service (OPS), which launched a hate crime investigation...
Barbara Perry, director of Ontario Tech University's Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, said the book is an attempt to normalize white nationalist ideologies.
"It really is an exposition of the sense of white victimhood … a railing against multiculturalism, EDI initiatives, non-white immigration specifically, feminism and progressive policies," Perry said, using an acronym for policies promoting equity, diversity and inclusion...
While the book does not contain "a call for outright violence" or "a call for extermination of communities," Perry said it aims to frame far-right talking points in a more persuasive way than some of the "shock troops" of the movement.
Hector Addison, founder of the African Canadian Association of Ottawa, said he's "deeply concerned" by the circulation of the book throughout the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
That’s a man, baby!
Good. A little opposition never hurts.
Staged “hate crime” ala Jessie Smolettes
What are their Dewey decimal codes?
She looks like an author….
Obviously.
And a writer of pornography at that.
How’d you like to have her as your next door neighbor?
How much you wanna bet who did this?
And from the article, not clear at all the book is anything more than conservative.
Even if not a hoax. It’s free speech. And what is her definition of “White Nationalism”?
It’s a free book. If you don’t like it than don’t read it.
I wonder how many communist or LGBTQ++++++ books are planted in these small free libraries...
Wait a second, this same person is the one who went all around and claims they found this book everywhere?
Total horse crap and based on the description of the book, sure sounds like the task issue is free speech.
They never identify the book or it’s author, but from the article:
“While the book does not contain “a call for outright violence” or “a call for extermination of communities,” Perry said it aims to frame far-right talking points in a more persuasive way than some of the “shock troops” of the movement.”
???
Yes, but this is Canada. No First Amendment.
Canada is much like Britain when it comes to "hate speech" laws.
Are the Canucks going to burn these books? Jail the author? They would never see the irony.
As many as Barack could buy. Biden didn’t know he did it too I guess. Don’t ask anyone associated with him. They will either lie or not tell. The new don’t ask, don’t tell.
.... Forget it Jake .... It's Canadatown .....
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