[Traum]

Racist graffiti dismays community | Vancouver 24 hrs (http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2013/11/20/racist-graffiti-at-burnabys-metrotown-touches-on-underground-issues-advocate)

The woman who posted the photo to the site iask.ca took it inside a washroom stall in the ladies room at Metropolis at Metrotown.

“Kill all Chinese” was scrawled onto the side of the stall in what appears to be pen and captured by Monday by someone who only wants to be known as Ms. Lu due to safety concerns.

“I just wanted to ignore it,” Lu said. “The next day I decided to report it to police.”

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In some ways, I am not at all surprised by this kind of stupidity. Extremism, racism, and stupidity can never be completely eradicated in society. At the same time, I am really quite surprised to see this kind of bullshxt in a city as racially and culturally diverse as Metro Vancouver.

If you see something like this, what are you going to do other than notify the police?

[Hondaracer]

Agreed
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[twitchyzero]

bathroom stall graffiti making news :lawl:

[2damaxmr2]

ROR.

[nma]

lol are you serious.. always see stupid nazi signs in highschool washrooms... Some kids just have nothing better to do. If it bothers you write something over it or ignore it.. who the hell cares.. Lots of crazy ass people in the world..


This lady reported it to the cops?? The fuck?? What are they gonna do?

Gonna go around every washroom in town find racial slurs and report it to the police.. holy fuck grow some balls

[Traum]

^^ Dude, this isn't high school we're talking about (even though it may well be a dumba$$ hs kid scribbling it). Plain and simple, this is hate crime that is punishable under the Canadian Criminal Code.

I agree that there is probably very little that can be done in terms of catching the perpetrator. As a rule, it is still important to emphasize that this kind of thinking has no place in society, especially one such as ours here in Vancouver.

[nma]

^^ Dude, this isn't high school we're talking about (even though it may well be a dumba$$ hs kid scribbling it). Plain and simple, this is hate crime that is punishable under the Canadian Criminal Code.

I agree that there is probably very little that can be done in terms of catching the perpetrator. As a rule, it is still important to emphasize that this kind of thinking has no place in society, especially one such as ours here in Vancouver.


What does it matter if it's highschool or not? Kids go everywhere.... Stupid shit like this will always exist no matter what. There's little that can be done to stop it and the best step one can take is to simply ignore it. I'm pretty sure the people doing it know it's unacceptable they could just care less.

I'm just surprised some dumbass kid's graffiti made the news.. That's probably what they wanted .. attention.. and they got it lol

[2damaxmr2]

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[Presto]

In some ways, I am not at all surprised by this kind of stupidity. Extremism, racism, and stupidity can never be completely eradicated in society. At the same time, I am really quite surprised to see this kind of bullshxt in a city as racially and culturally diverse as Metro Vancouver.

If you see something like this, what are you going to do other than notify the police?

I didn't plan on failing you, but now I realize you're actually getting your panties in a bunch about this. It's some random graffiti in a bathroom stall. Are you going to 911 every poorly scrawled racial insult that you see? Fuck Van 24 hrs for even reporting on this bullshit.

[Lomac]

I don't think I've ever taken ANY graffiti I've seen in a bathroom stall seriously. If that's the case, I'd better start calling all those numbers promising me a good time, flush twice because it's a long way to the kitchen, keep an eye out for all those hidden cameras watching me take a deuce, and just overall ponder the meaning of life while reading some random poems scratched into the wall.

Because, you know, everything people truly feel is always carved permanently into the bathroom wall...

[Traum]

I didn't plan on failing you, but now I realize you're actually getting your panties in a bunch about this. It's some random graffiti in a bathroom stall. Are you going to 911 every poorly scrawled racial insult that you see? Fuck Van 24 hrs for even reporting on this bullshit.
Yes, it is some random graffiti scribbled in a bathroom stall -- that much I will agree. But for the rest of your remarks, I think it would be best if we simply agree to disagree.

[freakshow]

whatever.. a chinese person probably wrote that themselves after driving in richmond

[Roach]

The only thing worse than 24 hrs reporting this as news is Traum posting this on RS.

Kev

[GS8]

It's called

'Getting trolled in real life'

[Eatman]

There's racist graffiti all over the place, there used to be tons in the Superstore bathroom on Grandview and Rupert. How I see it, racism will never die... so just try to live with it.

In response to freakshows comment, meh it was probably some white chick that couldn't get the itch out of her vagina

[meme405]

This is a waste of the police's time, and I value our police's time very little in this city of ours...

Since pbrdukes likes this I will go ahead and say it again. I get called car-bomb to my fucking face, they don't even write it in the bathroom stall where I might not see it, and I don't get all bent out of shape over it... people say stuff, and do stuff. It may not be funny, it may not be politically correct, but there is nothing you can do to change what people are thinking in their sick little twisted heads, and that is exactly what people scrawl on bathroom stalls.

[Greenstoner]

i love bathroom reading, those are entertaining sometimes

[SpeedStars]

Someone drew a comic involving shit (sort of like Mr.Hankey:badpokerface:) in one of the stalls at playland. Shit was so gold

[Jonydakiller]

look left ---------> you failed...

[FerrariEnzo]

I dont go into the bathroom stalls.. haha I always wait it out til I get home.. pretty nasty dirty... So, no I havent ever seen any graffiti of any sort :badpokerface:

[StylinRed]

I read the headline as 'racist graffiti dismays communists' :lol :badpokerface:


I guess they should write a story about 'Jenny' in the gossip column because not only does she give great head she seems to get around! There was even a song about her back in the day

[Mining]

So many people here are so pessimistic about how something like this will ever change. Its easy to see the problem but its hard to see the solution due to complexity and you stop before you even begin. This is why we will never change.
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[spoon.ek9]

this reminds of those two other threads about racist graffiti in richmond. OP of those threads took that shit so seriously :lol

pretty sure he got ban hammered after all was said and done..

[carisear]

lol, i came in expecting to see some huge 10 foot spraypainted graffiti, not some 3 cm chicken scratch on the inside of a bathroom stall.

this whole thread is pretty fail, from 24h to the OP.

[StylinRed]

Jeremy Nutall...;) I wonder if he thought he would be reporting on bathroom stall graffiti when he decided he wanted to become a "journalist"

[KingDeeCee]

Sounds like Traum is the lady who called the cops and wants her 15 minutes of fame for being on the news.


EDIT: LOL @ comment section. Not sure if srs.

[StylinRed]

yeah the comments were a bit :crazy2: and they've closed commenting already

[4nik8]

bathroom graffiti, It's the meat space equivalent to 4chan. your completely anonymous and will write what ever pops in your head. more for shock value than actual feelings because People like to troll and shock people. Have you ever hid around a corner popped out and yelled boo to scare someone? That's all this is. someone is trying to shock and offend. not because they hate Chinese. but they want someone to read it and have some sort of reaction. The worst thing about this graffiti is how painfully uncreative and unimaginative it is.

[Happy]

lol, i came in expecting to see some huge 10 foot spraypainted graffiti, not some 3 cm chicken scratch on the inside of a bathroom stall.

same, 24 hrs must have no good news stories at all if they report something like this

[bloodmack]

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Internet Graffiti.

[knight604]

did someone write , try and kill us all yet?

[flagella]

lol was expecting some massive graffiti in front of some store.

[bcrdukes]

Must have been the artwork of that loser bcrdukes.

[Happy]

Must have been the artwork of that loser bcrdukes.

I heard he left behind one of those organic coffee cups at the scene of the crime

[jakers]

Idk what's more pathetic, the fact this is news or the reaction to the news.

Do people have nothing better to do these days?

[Mr.HappySilp]

Is most likely coz most Asians sit in the stalls reading newspaper, chatting on thier cell phones or playing their iphones taking up the stalls for hours. I am not sure why but lot's of Asians tend to do these things in the washroom even the public ones..........

[GLOW]

when i see racist stuff on the wall it's usually the epic responses written are what makes me :lol
and the poor spelling/grammar used in the racist comment

[Yodamaster]

It's a fucking washroom, you get used to seeing gigantic dick paintings and shit smears on the walls. Language used by the typical thirteen year old COD player being written in a washroom stall does not surprise or induce rage with me.

If we had death squads rolling the streets, we'd have a newsworthy problem. If this constitutes news, then we might have world war three on our hands here...

[Spidey]

the fact that this made the news is probably going to encourage more ignorant individuals to continue or start doing this. a lot of graffiti that is done in bathroom stalls are done just to illicit a reaction.

[Spidey]

^^ Dude, this isn't high school we're talking about (even though it may well be a dumba$$ hs kid scribbling it). Plain and simple, this is hate crime that is punishable under the Canadian Criminal Code.

I agree that there is probably very little that can be done in terms of catching the perpetrator. As a rule, it is still important to emphasize that this kind of thinking has no place in society, especially one such as ours here in Vancouver.

although it is an offence under the criminal code, there really isn't much police can do in a situation like this unless there is evidence leading towards possible suspects...

I guess news is slow these days in the LMD

[BrRsn]

I'm surprised she took the time to report it to the police
More surprised even still that the cop took it seriously

Grow up. There will always be people who don't like you.
You're fat, the wrong race, the wrong sex, the wrong religion .. get over it.

I love how the 'news' title also has no context -- just says "Graffiti at metrotown" -- makes no mention of the context. If it said "Graffiti in metrotown bathroom stall" even google's indexing bots wouldn't open it.

Think of all the terrible shit that gets told to white people all day -- they all take it in stride, yet immigrants get hung up on it, why? Fuck, a white person can't even say "brown guy" or "black guy" without coming off as racist -- why is that? There's a church near my house and routinely I see kids from immigrant families hanging out behind it after hours drinking beers, smoking weed, having fights -- if that were white kids doing it on the property of a mosque or a temple it'd be all over the news -- Why is that?

You're living in Canada .. you are a Canadian. If you went to your parents' home country you would be a foreigner -- why the hell do you care what a piece of graffiti written on a bathroom stall says about a demographic you're not even connected to anymore (aside from whatever heritage is attached to your name ...)?

Racism in the past existed, some ship full of my people got turned around and your people made a railway. Fun fact, the railway you guys made, my dad worked on. He got hassled by every single non-ethnic person and called slurs but he just laughed it off because at the end of the day he knew it just wasn't worth it to get hung up on trivial shit. There were moments when it turned to physical altercation and my dad's got some crazy stories about fights -- but this was way back in the 70s/80s where the majority of 'red-dot-indians' people had seen was Hadji from Johnny Question ( Sim Sim Sala Bim!).

Sorry for the digression, but the point I'm try to get at here is ... you're hung up by growing pains of a society where 'racism' is so non-existent that it's really only a very small proportion of the population causing problems. It was the people before us, who lived decades ago, that suffered the brunt of racism -- not us, dealing with whatever relics of the past are left behind.


tl;dr -- Canada rocks. If you spent the majority if your life here, you're a canadian. If you still identify with the birthplace of your parents, you clearly have this whole idea of 'immigration' wrong. If you disagree, move back to whatever country you think you belong to and tell us how great life is there.

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[stewie]

I don't think I've ever taken ANY graffiti I've seen in a bathroom stall seriously. If that's the case, I'd better start calling all those numbers promising me a good time, flush twice because it's a long way to the kitchen, keep an eye out for all those hidden cameras watching me take a deuce, and just overall ponder the meaning of life while reading some random poems scratched into the wall.

Because, you know, everything people truly feel is always carved permanently into the bathroom wall...

calling for a good time could be fun!
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[bcrdukes]

White people don't need to be a victim of this social taboo of always being racist.
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[bcrdukes]

Case in point.

Video: Katy Perry's 'Offensive' Geisha Performance At American Music Awards: LAist (http://laist.com/2013/11/25/video_katy_perrys_offensive_geisha.php)

Is it really racist? What if she was just trying to embrace and promote the Japanese culture?

[Drow]

^^ Dude, this isn't high school we're talking about (even though it may well be a dumba$$ hs kid scribbling it). Plain and simple, this is hate crime that is punishable under the Canadian Criminal Code.

I agree that there is probably very little that can be done in terms of catching the perpetrator. As a rule, it is still important to emphasize that this kind of thinking has no place in society, especially one such as ours here in Vancouver.

Hate it wen ppl get offended at the smallest things

[dbaz]

Case in point.

Video: Katy Perry's 'Offensive' Geisha Performance At American Music Awards: LAist (http://laist.com/2013/11/25/video_katy_perrys_offensive_geisha.php)

Is it really racist? What if she was just trying to embrace and promote the Japanese culture?

not her fault shes a weeaboo

[Traum]

Hate it wen ppl get offended at the smallest things
I'm not offended. I'm just surprised by the stupidity, especially when it happened in a city that is as racially and culturally diverse as Vancouver.

On a different note, I am also quite surprised by RS' reaction to the post. The number of fails I got in the first post also surprised me too. But I guess I really shouldn't be surprised. It is RS after all.

[dbaz]

i think the fact that you believed that there would be less racism, because a city has a lot of different cultures and races, is the reason you got most fails. its not "because its rs" that you got failed, it was bad logic on your part. differences bring about hate and dislike, its always has, and always will.

[Hondaracer]

Lol @ the concern about shit in a bathroom stall Jesus

I could go write the absolute most heinous shit you've ever seen in some stall and there would be no way to prove anything, it's just random bullshit that people know they won't have to be accountable for

The funniest part though with stories like this is that the writers etc really have no grasp on this culture of "hate/haters" of today, I guarantee you the guy who wrote this doesn't think twice about Chinese people, Asians, or any other ethnicity for that matter, they wrote it just to fuck with people and obviously got a reaction their probably laughing at today
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[AzNightmare]

:lawl:

I should graffiti "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" in a washroom stall.

We are all doomed.

[fliptuner]

This thread is now about bathroom graffiti

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[Psykopathik]

dats wasist!