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Check yer Email, SUH!!!
An expression which is so easily banded around, but what does it actually mean?
Surely that is important...that acusation needs defining if it to be adressed - and wolly focus session really aren't going to achieve very much.
And "simply because much better informed people than me" isn't really a reason to swallow what they say - unless of course it fits with pre-concieved predjudices. Just because they are informed doesn't mean they understand. They can still come to the wrong conclusion.
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Has that been proved, is it that whites just don't report it, or is it that the assumption of racism isn't made if the victim is white?
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There are few people - Diane Abbot excepted of course - who would disagree that the reported crime figures would support that statement.
So what is the Police Force reaction - to focus their attention on Black youths. And when they do? They are accused of being institutionally racist...
White people also commit a lot of crime. I don't know who commits more. But I do no that to accuse a black person of commiting a crime is more likely to get you branded racist. That very fact in itself is racist, towards whites.
Positive discrimination is a bullshit term for racism. There is no other way to look at it.
I think it is outragous that the police have to feel wary about stopping a black person. Things like that mean that less crimes are going to be solved.
Feminists are some of the most sexist people on the planet. Germaine Greer(sp?) is a sexist bitch! People like that disgust me, trying to come across as PC, when they are being openly sexist.
(You may have noticed by now that this is a post of random bits of my thoughts with no real link between them, bear with it)
PC'ness has gone far too far. Yes, we should be politically correct, and we shouldn't call people paki's or niggers, we should respect people as humans. But we should not be made to feel ashamed merely because we (i speak for the we's who fit the bill of course) our not of an ethnic minority ourselves. That is racist.
Perhaps the Clare Short quote actually fudges the issue. Political correctness is not only an excuse for the 'hard-rights' to continue being racist under false pretences, but it allows the system to be manipulated by those the whole PC mindset is trying to help...