To think this is racist?

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This FB post is doing the rounds amongst my friends.

Is it just me?

What do you think about the time line? Do you think it's really hard to believe?

What about the amount of info given by the police, difficult to believe?

Racist?

It’s obviously and clearly racist.

The post itself is very easy to find on Facebook, and includes a photograph of the man in question (admittedly, it’s the back/side of his head).

She could have warned people about the man in the photograph, but instead smeared a whole ethnic group.

Definitely racist. Between this and the reaction to the Susan hussey story yesterday I worry about this country.

It's also very strangely worded. Attention seeking almost...

So leaving at an ungodly hour in the morning, but the officer was up emailing her with more details at this ungodly hour.... Seems totally plausible.

@Conkersareback exactly.

Am I seeing something different to what other people are seeing?!

It has all the trappings of massively overt racism!!

This woman’s DD was allegedly grabbed by an Asian man.

Shes gone on to say she wants people to know ‘what these Asian people are doing’x

That is, in its most basic form, claiming that a whole race behaves poorly simply because ONE person in that race behaved poorly.

She wouldn’t be saying “all these white men” if a white man had grabbed her DD.

My 5yo would know that’s racism FFS.

Unless you’re inherently very, very stupid - or just racist yourself - how could you possibly not see how that’s racism!!

Lumping Asian people in as one homogeneous group is definitely dodgy.

CourtneeLove no I've not seen any documentaries about m Chinese grooming gangs. Can you direct me to them?

Racist and I’m not convinced it happened either.

Well, as I've detailed above, the stuff about China sounds odd, but the other three points have a plausible explanation.

I openly admit my instinct is to side with women when they are called liars for complaining about a man's unacceptable behaviour.

So many things don’t add up. Not least the police turning up and making an arrest within minutes and the whole world seemingly stopping. And not to touch her arm because of DNA? Doesn’t sound right. The fact the actual ‘attempted kidnap’ is glosses over and not really described in great detail speaks volumes. And catching a plane in 2 hours one minute then suddenly the next day.

Oh well hopefully the mum has got the attention she clearly craves

@Coughybreak maybe you should not just side with women because they're called liars, maybe you should read the facts and decide, women lie!

It's like you saying, inside with everyone that says Asian men are predators, that's racist!

Also racist - describing how the 9yo shouldn’t have to deal with “some Asian man” grabbing her - would a white man have been better?

Re the trauma - I imagine if something like this did happen it would be scary AF but what I don’t think would help would be to have your mum screaming like a banshee and following the man around before melodramatically throwing you into a travel agents.

What’s racist about it?

Provided it’s true and not fake news, he tried to abduct a child and is basically getting away with it. And if he’s Chinese then he is Asian.

YABU. Or do you think we shouldn’t mention crimes with a person of colour as the perpetrator?

Because it was one man who allegedly did this and she’s ‘warning people of the Asians that are going round doing this’.

In what world is that NOT racist?!

Did you read all the pages? Do you think it's not fake news?

If people have read that whole post to the end and come to the conclusion it’s not racist, I have a strong suspicion that hold some pretty racist opinions themselves.

In some of the cases, the police stated that they had no reports of the claimed incident. The posts were also removed.

I wouldn’t have a problem with someone saying “asian man, at this time at this location”. It seems to be saying that there are loads of chinese men trying to abduct children. I’m a bit hmmm about that.

I was ok with it until the last paragraph 'these people' where she has applied the deeds of this one person to an entire nationality.

She makes some valid points re: difficulties in checks, and if any man was following a child and grabbing her, no cultural allowances should be made.

However it is definitely xenophobic and has a nasty undercurrent to it.

I absolutely loathe racism but this is not it. But that " it's racist" attitude is what allowed those large gangs of Asian pedophiles to get away with it for so long.

maybe you should not just side with women because they're called liars, maybe you should read the facts and decide, women lie

I was with you up till the last two words!

There are no independent statements or verified facts available. I have read the woman's statement, which is all we have of the facts, and seen what look like some discrepancies. But overall, the main facts look credible to me. Weighing up the (very limited and partial) evidence, I am not convinced she is lying. And I'm not going to say I think she is, just to go along with the majority.

On the question of racism, what I read is a furious woman yelling her rage that this man got away with it, and in the process hitting out unfairly at others. Not good. But not in the same league as taking a child.

I've tried not to let my opinion be affected by the mockery of this uneducated woman's bad grammar and writing style. I mean, that makes me think less of the people mocking her, not of her.

Anyway, I'm done now. Sending my love to all children and parents affected by incidents like this.

More offended by her spelling

Isn't it all bullshit anyway? I've seen endless variations of these sort of things on FB. I