To be furious at this news story? (9yo girl shot with air gun in allegedly racist attack)

[MusettasWaltz]

Not really an AIBU I guess but posting for traffic.

In Bristol a few days ago a 9yo girl was shot three times with an air gun in a probably racist attack. Thank goodness it was nothing worse, but still vile...

Hoping this and the recent apparently racially motivated rape of a Sikh woman are isolated incidents (is it a coincidence a girl was targeted in this one?). I am very pro-immigration controls but also worried by the apparent rise in ugly racist sentiments.

Whatever government we get in 2027, they need to be clear that racism & racist violence will be strongly clamped down on.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c749znnxy9do.amp

How sickening. I didn’t even know anything about this. If they’ll do that to a little child it doesn’t bare to think what they’d do to a child.
To call them scumbags seems like a massive understatement. Obviously hoping they’re caught convicted and given at least 10 years and put in general population, let’s see how big and tough they are then!
Sending my love to this beautiful little girl.🧸

It’s awful. As a Bristolian I feel ashamed. We really are a city of two halves. Vast parts of the city are very diverse, some parts are less so and we have had the flag twats up. There was even a fight recently between a group putting flags up and another group taking flags down.
Both sides need to listen to each other, and educate eachother. There is a lot of false information peddled by racists which some white British people listen to without question. It spreads like wildfire in communities with deprivation and low levels of education. But some things are understandable in terms of the shortness of resources, and I say this as the child of an immigrant. Housing is in very short supply, most rentals are now HMOs or student accommodation or just very expensive. If I had an adult son living in my spare room, with a child, and I was fed up with him having no chance of getting a council house, I might feel resentful. But then I feel strongly that the emergency accommodation should go to those who don’t have any support network who can offer a room or even a sofa.
But this is by the by, a child has been attacked and abused. This child was as British and as much of a Bristolian as any other child in our city. We are a city built from the blood and the bones of global majority people forced into slavery or raped and exploited in India. Diversity gives a false sense of inclusion and harmony, but it’s rarely like this to be honest.

I'm glad to see engagement with this thread. Will write more soon...

A bit odd that apparently 37% of the 16 voters so far think that I AM being unreasonable to be angry about this...

Unless they meant something else?

YANBU. I’m very pro immigration controls but horrified by this. I haven’t seen the Sikh lady case reported in the news; have there been arrests? I bloody hope so

See also

Mumsnet seems to be awash with far right posters at the moment.

That horrible case has been reported quite a lot, on BBC, Guardian, and others.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sikh+woman+raped&oq=sikh+woman+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggDEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg5MgcIARAAGIAEMgcIAhAAGIAEMgYIAxBFGDsyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBggGEEUYPDIHCAcQABiABDIJCAgQABgKGIAEMgcICRAAGIAEMgkIChAAGAoYgAQyCQgLEAAYChiABDIJCAwQABgKGIAEMgkIDRAAGAoYgAQyCQgOEAAYChiABNIBCDQyMjZqMGo0qAIBsAIB&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Anyone who thinks anger at a cowardly assault on a child is 'unreasonable' is honestly evil...☹️ Hopefully bots/trolls...