They only released it this time to stop people immediately blaming immigrants and start trying to burn them alive in hotels.
If you behave like morons then you’ll be treated like morons.
BeardMonk1 on
Im sorry, but its too late now.
Anything other than the suspect ethnicity being released within hours of a event will now be seen as a cover up OR proof that the perpetrator is a brown/black/Muslim/asylum seeker (delete as needed). Any clamping down on misinformation being spread will be seen as proof of a cover up.
I 100% get why they had to in this case but they have now made a bed they have to lay in. I support them but i don’t envy them.
winmace on
We need repurcussions in the form of laws that hold people accountable for spreading misinformation.
If politicians and media executives faced prison time for not telling the truth we’d soon see our political structure change.
throughpasser on
Good. Releasing the ethnicity of suspects should not become the norm. Becsuse the next time a suspect IS a non-white immigrant it will be taken as a green light by the far right to go on the rampage. It also gives a kind of official backing to the idea that the ethnicity is relevant.
The only reason Farage, Robinson etc want the ethnicity of suspects released early is so they know which tragedies to jump on while the iron is hot.
honkballs on
This is just going to add fuel to speculation though… as we now know, if it’s a “White man from Britain”, we find out straight away… so if they don’t tell us, well that must mean it’s a “Brown man from Pakistan”
Uniform764 on
Unfortunately not releasing it will be interpreted as “not white” by the people wishing to fan flames
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They only released it this time to stop people immediately blaming immigrants and start trying to burn them alive in hotels.
If you behave like morons then you’ll be treated like morons.
Im sorry, but its too late now.
Anything other than the suspect ethnicity being released within hours of a event will now be seen as a cover up OR proof that the perpetrator is a brown/black/Muslim/asylum seeker (delete as needed). Any clamping down on misinformation being spread will be seen as proof of a cover up.
I 100% get why they had to in this case but they have now made a bed they have to lay in. I support them but i don’t envy them.
We need repurcussions in the form of laws that hold people accountable for spreading misinformation.
If politicians and media executives faced prison time for not telling the truth we’d soon see our political structure change.
Good. Releasing the ethnicity of suspects should not become the norm. Becsuse the next time a suspect IS a non-white immigrant it will be taken as a green light by the far right to go on the rampage. It also gives a kind of official backing to the idea that the ethnicity is relevant.
The only reason Farage, Robinson etc want the ethnicity of suspects released early is so they know which tragedies to jump on while the iron is hot.
This is just going to add fuel to speculation though… as we now know, if it’s a “White man from Britain”, we find out straight away… so if they don’t tell us, well that must mean it’s a “Brown man from Pakistan”
Unfortunately not releasing it will be interpreted as “not white” by the people wishing to fan flames