A Why and Racism
One diabolical driver of racial problems is being publicly told exists when doesn’t, or conversely, civil society not addressing problems when they do.
Extremes, rather than middle-ground dialogue is the profiled public discourse. Pushing potential perpetrators of irrational hate talk on to a more activist stand. Take someone’s concerns about excessive immigration and rub the racist narrative across the wide community. When the question is, how many people and how much – measure response.
Media – T.V. and national papers – assume inadvertently, push racism, in the name of anti-racism. Sounding off so seemingly caring, insistent on making a relentless emphasis of someone’s murder because it ‘is being treated suspicious it’s a hate crime’.
The recent senseless death of a seemingly most decent man in Harlow is immediately dubbed racist. This the case, because the week or so after it happened, three long evening local news broadcasts, implied so. Because shock-horror, they interview one or two Polish people who say; “the Polish population is living in fear”. Smug presenters go on to rudely harangue the police chief of the wider region for not attending a walkabout a few days later. There’s not many things as sickening than self-righteous T.V. interviewers: That we need to be ‘told’ by them, to care/more?
I’ve no idea the extent of fear from ethnic minorities in Harlow. Perhaps other incidents have brought this on. Certainly soon after this shocking death, an assault happened outside a pub – but otherwise, like this assault, would immediately have been loudly broadcast. So fair to assume, nothing has been reported. Or previously, reports going back, that show an escalation?
But like the report below says it’s all about… we got it: Brexit. Last night the local evening BBC news covered the arrest. More grief from the family. Only caught some of the report but if they didn’t note racism=brexit, the next report did on a financial question. (Drip, drip, drip we go – no surprises there)
The need to scapegoat is ancient and archetypal but disproportionate blanket blaming can alienate the vulnerable and cause their unwanted reaction.
Teen in UK charged in Polish man's death after Brexit vote
AP/Daily Mail: A 15-year-old boy in Britain has been charged with murder in the killing of a Polish man in the weeks after the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union.
Arkadiusz Jozwik died after he was attacked by teenagers in Harlow, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of London, on Aug. 27. His death came amid a spike in reported attacks on eastern Europeans and other hate crimes in the wake of Britain's June 23 EU membership referendum.
At the time, police said they were investigating the killing of 39-year-old Jozwik as a potential hate crime.
Six teenagers were arrested and later released on bail. Government prosecutor Paul Scothern said Thursday that one was being charged and would appear in court Jan. 6. The other five will face no charges. SOURCE