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So anyway, back to how laws are unequally applied in Canada, even the ones that ostensibly are designed for the occasion.

Like: You would think hate crime laws are meant to protect minorities, right?
Not so fast.

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Amidst an exponential surge in anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim racism, “anti-hate” infrastructure has mobilized to criminalize Palestine solidarity. In January 2024 alone, Toronto Police Service (TPS) laid at least four charges against Arab protesters in relation to hate investigations. TPS announced that one of these arrests was allegedly “for displaying [a] terrorist flag” – the flag of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – an act they themselves have previously stated is legal. Instead, they charged the arrestee with the rarely-used offence of “public incitement of hatred.”
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My favourite part of the article comments on a certain group with skin as fragile as pork rinds:

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Reports by Hamilton’s hate crime unit from the late 2000s list “police” as a victimized group alongside identities such as “Jewish” and “Black.”
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Yeah, that's right. To them, saying "fuck the police," is as distressing as dropping the n-bomb.

You should read the article for a whole lot more eye-opening information, like how Black and Indigenous people are disproportionately having hate laws used against them.

https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/anti-hate-the-new-face-of-political-policing

#FuckThePolice #LawFedi #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FreePalestine