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Is this justice?
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A 44yr old black man walks free from court with a smirk on his face after being convicted of a vicious attack on a 96yr old war veteran, which was unprovoked and leaves him with loss of vision in one eye. Is this justice?
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anotheoldgit
You couldn't be more wrong.
You could try, but you would be unsuccessful.
Wouldn't you find it odd if I posted something along the lines of
"White buglars kills old lady and only gets 12 months suspended sentence"?
Wouldn't your eyes go straight to the irrelevent adjective?
This is the weirdest thread I've ever seen. It's so obvious that the key point was that the guy is a paranoid schizophrenic. Ignoring that, and concentrating on his race is about 15 kilometres past dumb.
You couldn't be more wrong.
You could try, but you would be unsuccessful.
Wouldn't you find it odd if I posted something along the lines of
"White buglars kills old lady and only gets 12 months suspended sentence"?
Wouldn't your eyes go straight to the irrelevent adjective?
This is the weirdest thread I've ever seen. It's so obvious that the key point was that the guy is a paranoid schizophrenic. Ignoring that, and concentrating on his race is about 15 kilometres past dumb.
One other thing...I'm not saying that a person's race can never be mentioned in a news story. However, it needs to be pertinent to the story.
It would be the same if, say, the first white man had been elected President of Nigeria. That is pertinent to the story.
If the attack was motivated by race, then again, mentioning the man's race would be relevant.
However, it wasn't.
What you should have written was:
44yr old schizophrenic man walks free from court with a smirk on his face after being convicted of a vicious attack on a 96yr old war veteran, which was unprovoked and leaves him with loss of vision in one eye. Is this justice?
His condition was pertinent to the story. His race wasn't.
It would be the same if, say, the first white man had been elected President of Nigeria. That is pertinent to the story.
If the attack was motivated by race, then again, mentioning the man's race would be relevant.
However, it wasn't.
What you should have written was:
44yr old schizophrenic man walks free from court with a smirk on his face after being convicted of a vicious attack on a 96yr old war veteran, which was unprovoked and leaves him with loss of vision in one eye. Is this justice?
His condition was pertinent to the story. His race wasn't.
44yr old schizophrenic man walks free from court with a smirk on his face after being convicted of a vicious attack on a 96yr old war veteran, which was unprovoked and leaves him with loss of vision in one eye. Is this justice?
But sp1814, they can't get outraged at that, and they wanna be outraged!
But sp1814, they can't get outraged at that, and they wanna be outraged!
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Leaving aside the vast amusement I just got out of the idea of Splat and Gromit being up their own ar$es....
The point remains that the fact that the man was black rather than that he was mentally ill was deemed more important when you posted your question and as such implies that you care less about the story and more about the propoganda behind it.
Why is that?
The point remains that the fact that the man was black rather than that he was mentally ill was deemed more important when you posted your question and as such implies that you care less about the story and more about the propoganda behind it.
Why is that?
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China Doll Quite incorrect, it wasnt I who made an issue of the assailents colour, only the people who took up the thread, he could have been a Welshman, & I would still have included this in the original question, no doubt upsetting the likes of the RAGGY( ass) ROMAN. To whom i may add- not little, 6ft2in, & 13st.2lb. actually!
I'm not all that concerned about your height or weight, we're all the same font round here ;0)
That's because there's a hidden agenda in your question which comes out to those that care to see the question for what it is rather than what you want them to.
Basically, if you wanted to promote debate about justice the word black would never have needed to be there. It's just a bloke that smirked and walked free.
If you were out to cause mischief then you could have left out both race and the mental illness and let people work themselves in to a frenzy of outrage at the justice part while others argued the fact that had they read more of the story they'd have noticed the bloke in question also had a mental illness.
If you were truely looking for a debate in the issue then you might actually have discussed the topic of mental health issues in the community and what could/should/would be done about it.
It doesn't appear to me you wanted any of those things, just hits on your thread. But of course, I could be wrong.
I don't think I am though.
That's because there's a hidden agenda in your question which comes out to those that care to see the question for what it is rather than what you want them to.
Basically, if you wanted to promote debate about justice the word black would never have needed to be there. It's just a bloke that smirked and walked free.
If you were out to cause mischief then you could have left out both race and the mental illness and let people work themselves in to a frenzy of outrage at the justice part while others argued the fact that had they read more of the story they'd have noticed the bloke in question also had a mental illness.
If you were truely looking for a debate in the issue then you might actually have discussed the topic of mental health issues in the community and what could/should/would be done about it.
It doesn't appear to me you wanted any of those things, just hits on your thread. But of course, I could be wrong.
I don't think I am though.
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