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"As its a black and white picture it is probably better not to make any colour assumptions, there are plenty of white British people around with similar features."
Your quite right DD. Egg on my face. I was reacting to the initial post and assumption from the photo that it was a black man.
"I didn't see the victim make that statement in any of the press releases I saw."
No neither did I ...but I am pretty sure she would have given a description and it wouldn't have gone "sorry officer I am not allowed to give a description of his colour because its racist for me to do so"
I am pretty she would have said its a white male or a black male if she knew.
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I agree with your point, witch-hunting everybody as racists and homophobes etc ends up with a situation where you have to be so concerned in what you say that it interferes with your thought process.
Defining "hate crime" is one of the lowest moments of our legal system, if someone attacks someone else because they are black or just because they are carrying a packet of smarties it is irrelevant, the offence is the attack. If they abuse someone verbally then it is abuse, no need to subsection it as a "hate crime" or drunken mouthing off.
Racism is differentiating by race and that is exactly what what the creation of "hate crime" does, how perverse.
Equally perverse is that ethnicity, skin colour and race are three completely different things but we appear to have systems that automatically equates between them.
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