The once welcoming community of Kitchener-Waterloo has seen a disturbing rise in hate, particularly against people of colour. Here’s a personal account of what I experienced today: A random woman gave me the finger & spewed hate while I was out for a walk at Erb/Avondale 🧵 1/n pic.twitter.com/TxvXeXW3Yd
— Ashwin Annamalai (@ignorantsapient) October 15, 2024
Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 09:58am on 20 Oct 2024,Sunday India Global
Ashwin Annamalai, an Indian-origin Canadian citizen, shared a disturbing encounter of hate in Kitchener-Waterloo. In a viral video posted on X, Annamalai described being verbally attacked by a woman who assumed he was an Indian national. The woman demanded he "return to India," accusing him of not speaking English and expressing racist sentiments about the presence of people of color. Annamalai voiced his concern about the increasing hate crimes in Canada, citing new data showing that the Waterloo region now has the highest rate of police-reported hate crimes in the country.
