Has "The Voice" been irresponsible in it's coverage of Birmingham?

[tbaldwin]

Nationally, the rape allegations only surfaced after the unrest. The unrest was the principle story of interest and import. The Voice made the unsubstanitated rape allegations the main story, arguably pandering to the prejudices of some of their readers while toeing the scum journo line that there is nothing quite as exiting as rape. Mysoginy is at the heart of this type of journolism. The ethnicity of the purported rapists may or may not be relevant. The Voice made sure it was mentioned in the first paragraph. Irresponsible at best, incitement at worst.

Would you be so pissed off if the supposed attackers had been white and the voice carried the story in the same way?
Reading this thread you might think that Asians dont have racist attitudes to Black people.... But there is every bit as much racism from Asian people to the Garli as there is from Whites to Blacks..

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Would you be so pissed off if the supposed attackers had been white and the voice carried the story in the same way?
.... But there is every bit as much racism from Asian people to the Garli as there is from Whites to Blacks..

On the contrary Mr B.

"Reading this thread you might think that Asians dont have racist attitudes to Black people" - that's your reading, and like those ink-blot tests perhaps you are seeing what you want to see. The sordid events of the last couple of weeks demonstrate just how alive the threat of racism is. To suppose that one ethnicity might be more or less racist than another would probably be er... racist.

If the attackers had been white I dont know how the voice would have reported it. I'm happy not to see into their minds.