u/cactuswaverly

https://x.com/dmrider/status/2089690342295498957

So the dominant narrative right now is that she's home safe with her family after having been "missing" for 2 weeks and everything is great and this was a big success. BUT there is very good reason to suspect not only that she ran away (disappears from her house without shoes or her phone in the middle of the night; no apparent kidnapping charges so far for the man whose apartment she was found in), but that she did so because her home situation was not good (social media posts from apparent classmates saying her family life was not good (screenshots attached).

Meanwhile, Joe Warmington and Caryma Sa'd are doing their darndest to stoke up a harassment campaign focused especially on the non-white homeowner whose tenant's apartment Esther was found in, a dude who said he didn't even know the police had been there because he had been at work all day...

And this is all putting aside the sheer volume of attention this case got relative to the many many other cases of child disappearances in the city that seem much more clearly to be connected to child trafficking... (One of the rare times the disappearances of Black boys has gotten mainstream media attention: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-missing-boys-9.7052889)

Then there's the weird moral panic about the missing posters being torn down... Like I organize events regularly and poster for them extensively. Can say definitively that posters get torn down all the time. There are people that see any kind of poster, no matter what it's for, as a kind of graffiti to be cleaned up. Meanwhile there's this massive narrative that's been validated by the mainstream media with zero actual evidence that there's some kind of concerted campaign from Palestine solidarity activists to tear them down...