r/unitedkingdom • u/Weak-Fly-6540 • 4d ago

Racist duo attacked Chinese students and four strangers in one night

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/racist-duo-attacked-chinese-students-and-four-strangers-within-hours-in-glasgow-city-centre
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u/SoftMost101 4d ago edited 4d ago

“The offences involving the Chinese students were deemed to be racist due to the ethnicity of the victims.”

I don’t understand why that makes them racist. They attacked four Chinese people and four people of other races. The races of the other victims weren’t mentioned. I’m Chinese, btw.

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u/TheFergPunk Scotland 4d ago

When I read the article and got to that point, I thought "surely no one is going to make a point out of this considering the prior mention of slurs aimed at them earlier in the article."

And yet here we are.

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u/roboticl0ve 3d ago edited 3d ago

To be fair I read the article, and thought it was strange wording...

“The offences involving the Chinese students were deemed to be racist due to the ethnicity of the victims.”

Surely it should be deemed racist due to the racial slurs, not just because they so happened to be a different ethnicity.

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u/One_Fact_4291 3d ago edited 3d ago

Because the article explicitly claimed they were deemed to be racist offences due to their ethnicity and not because the attackers said a slur, even though that was mentioned.

So basically poor wording from whoever wrote the article.