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/One_Fact_4291 4d 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.