Re: Covid new strain.
Originally Posted by
pauline3
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Weedeek, not taking sides, but I don’t see any racist comments, he’s talking about burglars coming into the country, I’m trying to understand how that is racist?
It's referred to as 'racism by association'. When an issue occurs time and time again to the point it becomes common place in society, established 'trigger' words no longer get used. Other lesser 'trigger' words take their place, words that have completely different meaning and definitions but when used in the right context produce the same desired effect as if a well known 'trigger' word had been used.
Therefore, when you consider the way the debate is ebbing and flowing, basically the discussion of illegal immigrants allegedly bringing the virus into the UK from France, using the word 'Burglars' is making reference to a certain demographic of people without actually using the established 'trigger' words that is commonly associated with the group of people, ergo 'racism by association'.
A very very good example of this is the criminal case against a man called Harry Miller (link here on the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-51501202)
He was charged with a hate crime. Basically he was accused of making 30 transphobic tweets on twitter. One of the tweets that was used against him was a tweet he retweeted which made reference to Dame Jenni Murray. The actual content of the tweet was not transphobic and had nothing to do with trans BUT because in the past Jenni Murrary had made comments about trans gender women not being biological women, her comments at the time being considered transphobic, therefore because the tweet mentioned her name, Mr Miller was 'transphobic by association' because he had retweeted a tweet that had her name in it. Therefore, the police considered that retweeted tweet to be transphobic.
So, Mr Miller was charged with a hate crime based on 'transphobia by association', just as Todger is being accused of being a racist due to 'racism by association'.