Monday, October 25, 2010

Asians fight back

The Nelson Mail reports "Drunken violence" in the city on Friday night, but the headline could just as easily been "Racial violence".

Last night's incident involved five friends walking home who were approached by a group of nine others, believed to be of Asian descent, [Detective Sergeant] McCoy said...

"I think myself that for the first time, Asians have been outnumbering the others – that it was retaliation for someone being beaten up – not reported to the police, of course."


Does he wonder why an incident isn't reported to the police? Isn't it a futile exercise? Tit-for-tat behaviour might simply be more effective.

3 comments:

Oswald Bastable said...

In the UK, 'Asian' is newspeak for middle eastern/arabic.

We tend to follow, lemming-like...

David McLoughlin said...

In the UK, 'Asian' is newspeak for middle eastern/arabic.

Actually when the UK media use the word "Asian", they mean Pakistani and Indian.

When the NZ media use the word, they mean Chinese.

Terms just as meaningless as the incessant police use of the word "caucasian."

As a journalist, I always replaced that with "Pakeha." I often got away with it :-)

Oswald Bastable said...

No they friggin' don't, anymore!

They USED too...

Shall we dare to say MUSLIM?