The ordeal that the passengers on the ill fated train last night is unimaginable. And nine with life threatening injuries. Terrible.
Yet again - as reported: a black man on the platform waving a large knife. One must understand the resentment that many have hearing such statements time and time again. Yet the police are curbed in ‘stop and search’ when it is well known that 50% of knife crime in London is committed by 13% of the population.
The UK is in bad need of a Rudy Giuliani to bring in zero tolerance.
Crime in the UK is falling across the board, especially violent crime, though some, particularly shoplifting is currently on the increase (there will always be ups and downs).
Reporting of violent crime never starts with the fact that the events described are getting rarer - no, they’ll just plug how violent it was in the headline to get engagement and you can be certain that if a coloured man stabs someone 95% of the headlines will be “man stabbed by Asian” or some such, even better if it is an asylum seeker - you can guarantee that wont be left out of the headlines whereas if the perpetrator is white attention is hardly ever drawn to their race.
Don’t believe me - what about The Times?
Sorry it’s TikTox but at least it isn’t paywalled.
Paywalled but I think this is the article that goes with the above video.
Exactly - the result of the bias I described is that people start jumping to conclusions.
I didn’t say blacks, asians or asylum seekers never commit crime.
But if crime committed by non-white ethnic groups is reported specifically including mention of the race in the headline and crime committed by whites rarely does, or is reported less then bias easily forms.
OK the former did not include fatalities but after the initial stories was barely mentioned again - the latter is still generating headlines.
Also don’t forget the immediate assumption that the killer was a) Muslim and b) an asylum seeker and the riots that followed (again this fell out of the news cycle fairly rapidly - wonder if that was anything to with the instigators being white).
I’m sick of hearing reports seeing headlines that focus on the race of a criminal, time to stop pandering to sicko racists!. A criminal is a criminal, nothing to do with race/nationality
However the claim was that the incident was being reported as “a black man on the platform” whereas, like Debbie, I can’t find that as a headline at the moment.
Sorry, it wasn’t a BBC reporter who said it. It was Olly Foster, a bystander, who was interviewed on the BBC television news in the early hours of this morning.
Do you have a link to a clip or article - if someone did make that claim and the BBC are no longer reporting it might be because it hasn’t been corroborated (BBC news is a RW cesspit but it does still manage slightly higher standards than some of the other right wing cesspits )
The eye witness report from Olly Foster online, doesn’t contain that bit Helen, maybe they’ve been asked to not report it further , to prevent trouble .
What is perhaps interesting is that the current reports of was said make no mention of race colour or creed and Olly’s words in the Guardian are reported as
Which suggests Olly was not near enough to have seen the attacker - and was distracted by his audio book in any event.
Like you said Helen, it’ll all become clearer in time. One thing I am glad about is, there was no images of the injured people being shown. I can’t imagine how awful it would be if the first you knew about a loved one being seriously injured was via the media.
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