It’s shit like this that I find very unsettling about the social media vigilantism going on after the Vancouver riots.

This is a comment on the Vancouver Riot Pics Facebook page of a Punjabi guy who was kicking and punching people. I have no sympathy for this idiot and I hope he gets charged.

The comments on rioters who are brown or asian are odd ghost towns where it looks like someone has said something super racist, then other people respond and defend saying that there’s no place for that kind of garbage, and the original racist comment has either been deleted or moderated.

However, the above comment is one that doesn’t contain any slurs and not really racist enough to moderate. Maybe that’s why it stings much more, because it’s overlooked, and sorta accepted when the issue of discussion (a riot) is much bigger than subtlety racist comments.

I’m Punjabi Sikh, born and raised in Williams Lake, BC. I’ve been to more stampedes than anyone not born in Calgary. I’d say 90% of the brown people I know are also born and raised here, and just by looking at this guy, he looks like he is to. And if not, he’s most definitely a Canadian citizen.

Where exactly would he be deported to?