Steven Zhou is a writer for the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). He has worked for several years as a reporter, scriptwriter, and producer for CBC News, CBC-TV, CBC Radio, VICE News, and the Ottawa Citizen. His writings have been published in the Toronto Star, TheGlobe and Mail, Foreign Policy, and the LA Review of Books.
Toronto police need to answer for their actions at demonstrations where far-right and anti-facist activists face off. It's not okay to protect one group and leave the other vulnerable.
It’s willful desensitization: the sheer amount of tragedy in the world forces our inundated culture to select exactly what we want to be the target of our outrage.
