Re:In Britain, even jails have a class system
by broodje on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @12:29PM
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Is identifying someone by their nationality racist?
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Re:In Britain, even jails have a class system
by spinglespingle on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @12:42PM
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not at all, but singling out a single ethnicity out of a massively mixed prison, quite is. particularly when it falls in the line of dailymail propaganda. or is racism racism only when against certain groups and not all?
Re:In Britain, even jails have a class system
by uk_programmer on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @12:55PM
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He didn't single them out. He mentioned actually mentioned drug addicts first (which are most likely English) and then the Romanian Gangstars. I would imagine they either stood out in his mind or he happened to be in the same wing of the prison. If I met a Romanian Gangstar it would definitely stand out in my mind.
Also labelling criminals from Romania as Romanian is simply a statement of fact. If they were Japanese Yakuza or Chinese Triads I would expect him to call them Japanese and Chinese respectively.