Disturbing news in Canada - "Whites Only" signs posted

[PureX]

Signs like these are made in earnest all the time, unfortunately. Some folks are just hateful.

But there is no end gain from it. It reads like it's announcing an event or a business but then it presents neither. If it were just a racist rant it wouldn't be doing that. I think it's some kid's "art project", or a social media prank. Designed to get attention for attention's sake.

 

[Soandso]

But there is no end gain from it. It reads like it's announcing an event of a business but then it presents neither. If it were just a racist rant it wouldn't be doing that. I think it's some kid's "art project", or a social media prank. Designed to get attention for attention's sake.

That very well could be. Depends if there was a website or Facebook group or something for the people to be directed to, imo. Unfortunately, the bottom of the sign is cut off and we can't see if that is very well the case

 

[PureX]

That very well could be. Depends if there was a website or Facebook group or something for the people to be directed to, imo. Unfortunately, the bottom of the sign is cut off and we can't see if that is very well the case

Almost no one promotes online media, offline. It's hugely inefficient and expensive.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I'll wager it's a Poe.

I'll take you up on it, though you are probably correct. It looks like a prank to me as well.

The sad thing is that it might not be, which shouldn't be a possibility.

 

[Soandso]

Almost no one promotes online media, offline. It's hugely inefficient and expensive.

Eh... except those groups I just posted, for instance. They all have and promote their websites via advertisements on the street like fliers and signs. They are also local in the PNW which is a hop, skip, and a jump from Vancouver, BC

Likely? I've seen it myself. Could be poe's law, too

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

There is no there, there. Literally. No reason for the signs to have been made in earnest. So I think they’re fakes.

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“Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.”​

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

[Revoltingest]

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“Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.”​

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

Nah.
Far worse is the seeking of security while sacrificing liberty.
Authoritarianism doesn't know race....it crushes all.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Appeals to Poe's Law seems more than a little convenient when it comes to the "let's not take this seriously" crowd. Meanwhile, dismissing racist provocation as parody simply reinforces those who find it enabling.

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

I can think of a darker reason for the anonymous posting of signs advertising children's "play groups." And that reason is pedophilia.

The fact that they are requesting only white children could be indicative of the naivety of those all too many white folks who live in sheltered enclaves, and who are only too eager to escape from their perceived "horrors" of exposure to diverse populations.

Numerous statistics and demographic profiles that you will find online indicate that an overwhelming percentage of child sex predators are white.

The presumably white people who will be welcoming white parents and their children into these newly created playgroups will be doing so without the parents really knowing who these people are. The parents will know only that these organizers are white, and therefore "safe." Talk about an opportunistic means of leading lambs to the slaughter.

I'm not merely speculating here. I have contacts with local police via my work regarding antisemitism education where I live, and we have found that it's always the same types of people coming up with similar schemes who are (rightfully) kept under scrutiny.

Edited to add:
I read this in the OP's posted link: "The posters lead people to join a Telegram group described as a space for white parents in the Tri-Cities."

Just mentioning that the Telegram app has been cited in numerous police reports as being used by pedophiles for their organized activities, due to the anonymity it provides its users. Once unsuspecting parents contact these "playgroup" organizers via Telegram, they could be directed to meet in otherwise undisclosed places. Even without parents and children physically attending a group meeting in an undisclosed place, the organizers will have the opportunity to gain personal information from respondents about their children, including their home addresses, their children's routines involving home life, attending school, etc.

Any parents who arrange any kind of play date for their child through strangers via a shady, anonymous means such as Telegram, just because the strangers are white (and therefore "safe" in these people's minds) have got to possess a level of stupidity that exceeds even their all-consuming racism, suggesting that they never should had bred in the first place.

 

[Subduction Zone]

But there is no end gain from it. It reads like it's announcing an event or a business but then it presents neither. If it were just a racist rant it wouldn't be doing that. I think it's some kid's "art project", or a social media prank. Designed to get attention for attention's sake.

It could be. Poe's law may apply here where it can be very difficult to tell the difference between someone with heartfelt racism or someone making fun of racist beliefs.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Appeals to Poe's Law seems more than a little convenient when it comes to the "let's not take this seriously" crowd. Meanwhile, dismissing racist provocation as parody simply reinforces those who find it enabling.

I would still take it very seriously even though it could be an example of Poe's law. If it was a hoaxer trying to foment dissent against a nonexistent enemy that person needs to be dealt with properly too.

Racism is something that should not be taken lightly.

And one thing that makes me say that it may not be a poe is a thread that was started on this site recently decrying refugees coming from Africa to Europe. I thought that the US was the only place where we had that sort of racist, but I can see that it is worldwide. So sadly Canada may easily have some racists that are as bad as any in the US.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Nah.
Far worse is the seeking of security while sacrificing liberty.
Authoritarianism doesn't know race....it crushes all.

Tend to agree. Ben Franklin said, "those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

 

[PureX]

I can think of a darker reason for the anonymous posting of signs advertising children's "play groups." And that reason is pedophilia.

The problem here, though, is that no actual mechanism exists for these groups to form (according to the poster). It's ike someone created a poster advertising; "Buy the new Chevy Metro!" when there s no Chevy Metro to buy. If some racists were really trying to create these groups they would have provided a means for people to participate. But they didn't. And who would waste their time designing and printing and putting up these pointless "advertisements"? I think it's some bored kids looking to get a media "rise" out of it.

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

The problem here, though, is that no actual mechanism exists for these groups to form (according to the poster). It's ike someone created a poster advertising; "Buy the new Chevy Metro!" when there s no Chevy Metro to buy. If some racists were really trying to create these groups they would have provided a means for people to participate. But they didn't. And who would waste their time designing and printing and putting up these pointless "advertisements"? I think it's some bored kids looking to get a media "rise" out of it.

Read the additional "Edited to add" I included in my post. These people are using the Telegram app. It wasn't apparent in the picture of the posters, but apparently it's on the poster's bottom line that is cut off in the picture. This is also mentioned in the linked article.

 

[PureX]

Read the additional "Edited to add" I included in my post. These people are using the Telegram app. It wasn't apparent in the picture of the posters, but apparently it's on the poster's bottom line that is cut off in the picture. This is also mentioned in the linked article.

So it's a game, as they want the real racists to go and "find them" online.

I still don't think it's about promoting racism. It's too convoluted. I think it's a spoof on the "culture wars" by some bored kids.

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

So it's a game, as they want the real racists to go and "find them" online.

I still don't think it's about promoting racism. It's too convoluted. I think it's a spoof on the "culture wars" by some bored kids.

Please read my posting Disturbing news in Canada - "Whites Only" signs posted

I didn't say it was about promoting racism. I said it was possibly about something worse. Police reports bear this out. The "racism" angle is a possible scam for what is actually something worse.

 

[PureX]

Please read my posting Disturbing news in Canada - "Whites Only" signs posted

I didn't say it was about promoting racism. I said it was possibly about something worse. Police reports bear this out. The "racism" angle is a possible scam for what is actually something worse.

The problem, here, is the lack of any actual information. And because of that lack, all kinds of things become "possible".

There was no real point in even reporting on this event until the 'reporter' had the necessary information. But we live in the world of "click bait news", now, where content-less headlines abound, always intending to play up and pray on people's fears just to gain eyes and ears for their advertisers, and their own profit.

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

The problem, here, is the lack of any actual information. And because of that lack, all kinds of things become "possible".

There was no real point in even reporting on this event until the 'reporter' had the necessary information. But we live in the world of "click bait news", now, where content-less headlines abound, always intending to play up and pray on people's fears just to gain eyes and ears for their advertisers, and their own profit.

What some people don't seem to understand is this: There are dangerous people who are always running some sort of scam, and often they will disguise their scam as being about something else. People need to be alert to these scams that are continually cropping up. Granted, I don't have much sympathy for the type of people who might be taken in by this one (although I do have sympathy for their children), but I nevertheless am sharing what I know with the rest the forum here, and what I know is based on actual police reports of similar attempts.

Whether this particular example is an actual scam or not, it would not have been the first time that a media platform used for anonymous messaging has been used for the purpose (pedophilia) I described in my posting above. It pays to be aware.