it's official: asian canadian fishers targeted by racism

Some follow-up on the "nippertipping" incidents that were reportedly happening to Asians up in Canada last year... In small towns around Ontario last summer, there were multiple cases of assault, mischief and theft against mostly Asian Canadian fisherman.

The local youth apparently call it "nippertipping," when they drive around in the middle of the night looking for cars parked near the water, then creep up behind fishermen and show them into the lake. The local police, however, kept insisting that the assaults weren't racially motivated. The local police are also idiots.

This week, the Ontario Human Rights Commission confirmed that those attacks were indeed motivated by racism: Asian fishers targeted by racism, report says. Yeah, I didn't really need a commission to tell me that. Their findings, however, are pretty interesting.

Here's the press release from the Ontario Human Rights Commission: COMMISSION REPORTS ON INQUIRY INTO ASSAULTS AGAINST ASIAN CANADIAN ANGLERS. Read the preliminary report (PDF) here. And read the new report here: FISHING WITHOUT FEAR: Report on the Inquiry into Assaults on Asian Canadian Anglers.