Living a positive lifestyle is top of mind for university student Shannon Bear.
She teaches others to do the same through dance.
But it's hard to stay positive when hateful and racist comments on Facebook start popping up, she said.
"For someone to make such a hurtful discriminatory page for people to support hate, it shocked me," said Bear.
Facebook users started noticing disparaging and racist posts on a page Tuesday morning.
While up to 5,000 others clicked the like button showing their support for the posts, many others responded with messages of their own, disputing the hate.
And hate is what human rights lawyer David Matas says it is.
"A racist attack on an individual isn't just an attack on that individual, it's an attack on a whole community to which he or she belongs," said Matas.
Winnipeg police said they’re examining the information but can't say yet if they warrant criminal charges against the people or person who posted the images and comments.
The people who the Facebook page is linked to say they didn't post the pictures or racist comments, and that a cyberbully is targeting them.
While Facebook administrators try to figure who's behind the posts, Matas said everyone should be concerned that they exist at all.
