Manchester police murder doublespeak

C_steam · 28-10-2006, 07:45 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/6093746.stm

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A man who died after being hit by a car in Greater Manchester may have been the victim of a racial incident, police have said.
David Lees, of Heathbank Road, Blackley, died in hospital after being found collapsed on Middleton Road in Prestwich at 0100 BST on Saturday.

The 23-year-old's death followed a disturbance believed to have involved white and Asian men. Mr Lees, who was white, had been among people involved in a row with a group of Asian youths.

The (police) spokesman said: "We are treating this as a racial incident, but the murder was not racially motivated."

oh, that's allright then. :?

Either it was a racial incident and murder, or it wasn't.

Moving Target · 28-10-2006, 11:56 PM

I take it there is a difference between the two?

How can these idiots think they are helping anything by this sort of double-speak - it is just ridiculous.

Oh well that's New Labour for you - I'm glad 'Dave' Cameron has seen the light ... oh.

John Carter · 29-10-2006, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Moving Target

I take it there is a difference between the two?

Yep. It's a "racial incident" if it's a dead white bloke. It's a "racial murder" if it's a dead Asian/African/Middle Eastern/Hobbit/Bajoran bloke.

Moving Target · 29-10-2006, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by John Carter

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Originally Posted by Moving Target

I take it there is a difference between the two?

Yep. It's a "racial incident" if it's a dead white bloke. It's a "racial murder" if it's a dead Asian/African/Middle Eastern/Hobbit/Bajoran bloke.

John, I can't get my head around this sort of double-speak - what do you see the motivation being?

Is it some middle class handwringer projecting some stale, outdated, self- hating, political credo that only whitey can be racist or bigotted?

John Carter · 29-10-2006, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Moving Target

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Originally Posted by John Carter

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Originally Posted by Moving Target

I take it there is a difference between the two?

Yep. It's a "racial incident" if it's a dead white bloke. It's a "racial murder" if it's a dead Asian/African/Middle Eastern/Hobbit/Bajoran bloke.

John, I can't get my head around this sort of double-speak - what do you see the motivation being?

I see it as some kind of attempt to destroy the status quo. Most lefties are internationalists, so it's in their best interest to destroy any native national identities they stumble across. In the UK, the lefties hate the UK (I've seen far-leftie loonies try to claim Irish heritage so as to distance themselves from being British). In the US, the lefties hate the US. Same everywhere - this hatred of what your own country stands for is what drives internationalist projects like the EU, Blovarianism, etc., etc..

I figure that all the politically-correct stuff (positive discrimination, ethnic quotas, etc.) is all part and parcel of the same thing - this constant drive to eliminate nation states and turn the World into some kind of socialist utopia (which the sensible amongst us all know will actually more resemble Hell than Heaven) where there's no difference between any country.

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Originally Posted by Moving Target

Is it some middle class handwringer projecting some stale, outdated, self- hating, political credo that only whitey can be racist or bigotted?

That too.

Besoeker · 29-10-2006, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Moving Target

How can these idiots think they are helping anything by this sort of double-speak - it is just ridiculous.

I agree. A crime is a crime whoever the perpetrator was.
The law is the same for everyone.

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28-10-2006, 11:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
Moving Target Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 53	I take it there is a difference between the two? How can these idiots think they are helping anything by this sort of double-speak - it is just ridiculous. Oh well that's New Labour for you - I'm glad 'Dave' Cameron has seen the light ... oh.