AIBU to think some people on here are way too obsessed with not being seen as racist?

No one can actually be this stupid I am going to assume you are being deliberately obtuse and ridiculous, just to get a reaction. I certainly hope so 😂😂😂

It never seems to be an issue when Reform voters are called it.

That tactic isn't going to work anymore. Do you remember burning cars, looting and statues being toppled during covid? Anti-semitism rife on Palestinian marches? When the public have observed enough they won't stay silent.

What are you talking about?

The so-called “silent majority” is shouting from the rooftops at the moment. It hasn’t been as fashionable to be racist as it was in the days of Enoch Powell.

Is being thick/ignorant a disability?

The disingenuous dismissive nature of your comment is plan for all to see and won’t wash anymore. People can see for themselves.

So obviously what he did was awful, everyone agrees on that. But carrying a knife does not mean he has a free pass to kill, thats just nonsense.

What, like it did in the case of Stephen Lawrence? Is that the sort of better outcome you favour?

I don't understand what you're talking about with food and kitchens? You can be anti racist and still being horrified by the lad's death?

He was literally carrying a knife…..sorry two knives, legally. Are you not following the facts.

What do you mean he has a free pass to kill? No he doesn't thats absolutely not true.

The truth is that most rational Muslim people and people from ethnic minorities see this madness for what it is. Ever wonder why women from minorities are over represented on the right of politics. You know, the ones the progressive racists like to call names like ‘coconut’ because they refuse to conform to their version of victims that need to be saved.

Yes the Tory Cabinet circa 2020 who were apparently ‘the most right wing in history’ compromised, among others, Rishi Sunak, Kwasi Kwarteng, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel and James Cleverly.

It doesn’t sit comfortably with them that the UK is actually one of the most left wing countries in the world. Much of the non Western world is, by comparison, very right wing.

Well, they’re all clamouring to downplay the slaying of Henry. That’s fairly racist in my book. We all know their reactions had this been a young non white lad who bled out while handcuffed after being stabbed as his white attacker was fawned over and asked to choose his food from the kitchen.

Looking for racism everywhere is part of the West’s decline into irrelevance. Starting with Europe.

It’s some kind of post rational, post truth, cult like obsession where logic is just so old school. Why celebrate treating people equally. Once the west had largely started to achieve that, it had to be about going one step further. Creating victims and victim narratives.

Of course, people will use it to play the race card, like this killer did. He has a free pass on killing someone in cold blood, and using the madness created by white saviour syndrome to excuse his behavior. This is utter madness.

The truth is that most rational Muslim people and people from ethnic minorities see this madness for what it is. Ever wonder why women from minorities are over represented on the right of politics. You know, the ones the progressive racists like to call names like ‘coconut’ because they refuse to conform to their version of victims that need to be saved.

What makes you think people are 'pretending' to be anti-racist? Maybe they just are.

Well you clearly felt the need to put that out there.

There is a two tier system too for the travelling community alongside other ethnic groups.
Kelly Ann Lynch, non traveller, found dead in a canal in Monaghan Ireland by two traveller lads she’d be seen with earlier, no investigation, classed as suicide, over 100 injuries.

Tbf I've never had to prove I'm not racist because I'm not racist!

It’s human nature though isn’t it? To hear someone was being unjust unfair to someone and assume about them. I don’t think people can learn from exceptions such as that because all it tells anyone is that there are people who are liars/ not to be believed, and we all know that but it’s hard when something happens to make that call

I can’t comment on London as I don’t live anywhere near there. Knife crime is a lot lower where I am thankfully. I’m sure there are stats on this, and whatever the results are will be what they are.

It’s exactly the same issue with those boys who committed rape in Fordingham. They had previously been reported for incidents of violence, sexual aggression and animal abuse but the police had not recorded anything and let them go each time. That meant their history was not raised in the rape case. Had they been black or brown boys, those very same police taking those very same actions would have been accused of being too afraid of being called racist. The same police errors and actions are framed differently when it’s a white vs non-white attacker. @CheeseyOnionPie

The rapes committed in Fordingbridge were by 3 boys from the travelling community. One could argue that the police didn't want to record their previous crimes for fear of being called racists about the travelling community.

“Most” are committed by white men?

Don you think that’s because the majority of men in this country are white.

Edit - cross posted with twisterlollies

What about knife crimes?

Why can’t we show compassion for everyone who is a victim of a horrendous crime and stop ignoring the fact that far more rapes/assaults/murders in this country are committed by white men. Male violence is the problem, across every ethnicity!

Oh this is so tired and disingenuous now.

Of course more murders and rapes are committed by white men, the majority of men here are white.

There’s definitely a group of highly disingenuous, loathsome posters who whenever something fairly obvious is stated they demand ‘Where is your evidence? Do you have a source for that?’ - in the absence of a gold plated worldwide study, they simply will not accept the evidence of people’s eyes and ears. When white people commit racist crimes it proves their narrative that only white people are very racist, and when non whites commit racist crimes ‘this is being used to fuel an agenda’.

I’ve worked in crime for years now and it is absolutely true that some groups commit more crimes, or more certain types of crime, than others. I won’t comment on which causing what because I can’t be bothered to go into long winded explanations which will no doubt be refused to be believed anyway, but yes they absolutely include white people, and others.

However I will say there are some groups I almost never see. Japanese, Chinese, Philippino, Sikhs (this recent case is highly unusual), and some African countries.

Pretending we are all one big homogenous blob who commit crimes as similar rates is nonsensical and actually rather offensive to the groups above who commit basically none.