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SOULGIRL · 13/10/2006 16:03

Sorry cant do links!!! Just saw this and thought this is a bit heavy handed...

news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=1068904

Strange coz John Gaunt (yes I know its in the Sun) had a thing in his column yesterday

"since when was killing whites a second class crime"

A 15 year old white boy was bundled into a car in Edinburgh knifed repeatedly, doused in petrol & set alight by an Asian gang and it didnt make ONE front page!

Starts to make even the most even minded of us go "hmm"

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SenoraPostrophe · 13/10/2006 16:11

There is a lot of bias in the selection of victims who make the headlines, but I don't think it's anti-white racist if that's what you mean. It's about perception of guilt/innocence. Thus a churchgoing black boy will make the headlines, but a lad whose been in a bit of trouble won't whatever colour he is. Also remember that an attack isn't necessarily racist just because the perpetrators are one colour and the victim another.

as for the news story: it is a bit heavy handed, I agree. But lots of people get arrested over nothing every day. The thing that really concerns me more is that there is a community police officer "based at the school". are schools really that rough these days?

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SOULGIRL · 13/10/2006 19:58

Wouldnt it have made more sense to have words with her and then move her into a group which was speaking the same language - she cant have been getting much out of it educationally if she couldnt understand a word they said, if I was her parent I would regard that a negligence on the teachers behalf. Obviously if she got racially abusive that was wrong I dont dispute that.

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SenoraPostrophe · 13/10/2006 20:02

yes it would but you know what teenagers are like: she probably didn't ask the teacher in quite such clear terms as "the others keep speaking in alanguage I don't understand and it makes me feel uncomfortable..". I can see how she could have been misunderstood. perhaps the community police officer at the school doesn't have much to do.

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SOULGIRL · 13/10/2006 20:08

I was the most hideous teenager at home but wouldnt have dreamt of being rude to a teacher!!