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@uvic needs some serious shaming:
Only days after Jamie Cassels releases a mealy mouthed statement on #BlackLivesMattters, the university has empowered @uvicsecurity to engage in an open campaign of carding
Beyond any doubt, racialized students will be most targeted by this
Only days after Jamie Cassels releases a mealy mouthed statement on #BlackLivesMattters, the university has empowered @uvicsecurity to engage in an open campaign of carding
Beyond any doubt, racialized students will be most targeted by this
@uvic is doing this despite the fact that, for years, @TheMartlet has reported on campus security's problematic behaviours towards students (as recently as this past December):
https://www.martlet.ca/uvic-campus-security-officer-photographs-divest-protesters-outside-michael-williams-building-for-personal-interest/
https://www.martlet.ca/is-campus-security-making-students-feel-less-safe/
https://www.martlet.ca/uvic-campus-security-officer-photographs-divest-protesters-outside-michael-williams-building-for-personal-interest/
https://www.martlet.ca/is-campus-security-making-students-feel-less-safe/
Furthermore, @DesmondCole's research in Toronto has made thoroughly clear that carding practices invariably target racialized communities - particularly Black communities.
Does @uvic seriously think it's some how going to be any different? https://torontolife.com/city/life/skin-im-ive-interrogated-police-50-times-im-black/
Does @uvic seriously think it's some how going to be any different? https://torontolife.com/city/life/skin-im-ive-interrogated-police-50-times-im-black/
There are already countless incidences of Black students and workers on campuses being targeted by campus security officers in clear incidences of racial profiling
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/humiliating-black-uottawa-student-cuffed-in-campus-carding-incident
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/us/21gates.html
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/humiliating-black-uottawa-student-cuffed-in-campus-carding-incident
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/us/21gates.html
Campuses across so-called Canada are gentrifying colonial machines, so this isn't new.
It's the structural racism that's at the very heart of academia using the pandemic as it's newest cover.
But everyone should see it for what it is and resist it.
It's the structural racism that's at the very heart of academia using the pandemic as it's newest cover.
But everyone should see it for what it is and resist it.
