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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Jul 15, 2014.

  1. SaintsForTheWin

    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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    What ****s me off and it makes me sick that people pull their phones out to video people laying on floor after such events and then feel they should plaster it on social media.

    Hope everyone who is injured, pulls through.

    Rip to the woman. Such a shame.
     
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  2. Puck

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    Yeah they probably would report it. In the early stages of these incidents pretty much anything that anyone says to a journalist gets reported. Nick Robinson was on the BBC earlier saying "I wasn't here at the time and I haven't been able to verify this but I spoke to a young French tourist who was here and they said...." I hadn't heard anything about ethnicity but I'd heard descriptions of the attacker - dressed in black and heavyset apparently. I imagine it comes down to what the eyewitness notices and repeats.

    Comparing it to the question of whether anyone has died isn't fair. That information would almost certainly have to come from the emergency services while anyone who saw the incident could provide a description of the attacker.
     
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    I ask again, would they have mentioned his colour if he was white?

    Vin
     
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  4. Puck

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    First sentence of my response. Yes I think they probably would. In the early stages of these incidents any scrap of information gets reported.
     
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  5. fran-MLs little camera

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    Yes, they would and frequently do. As we all probably assumed it was a Middle Eastern attack, it would certainly be newsworthy if he was white.
     
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    Might have been an article 50 terror attack. Very relevant. But people like to pigeon hole & play race cards to make situations just a little more uncomfortable.
     
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  7. SaintsForTheWin

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    Daily Mail - doubt it.
     
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  8. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    I really must get some new eyeballs...if this goes on my present set will fall out. Time to leave this site before this event gets blamed on Brexit and global warming. Not everything that happens in life is related to your own pet prejudices.
     
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    You might want to have a look at the other end of that stick Fran.
     
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  10. Puck

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    There may be two people involved. From the BBC live updates:

     
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  11. SaintsForTheWin

    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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    Hope that's not directed at me.

    No one has blamed anything on prejudices here, Vin was commenting on the predujice rag known as the Daily Mail, and the hatred that paper breeds.
     
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  12. - Doing The Lambert Walk

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    RIP to the victims who have died <rose>

    Awful :(
     
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  14. Onionman

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    We should perhaps focus on the police officers who risked their lives, the wonderful passers by who rushed to help the injured and the emergency services who came along and did their jobs without hesitation.

    Makes me proud.

    Vin
     
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    Onionman Well-Known Member

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    And put so much more eloquently, Richard Wiseman just linked to this:



    I've never heard the advice before but I'm going to make a mental note consciously to do it in future.

    Vin
     
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    Just found out that my niece was "in lockdown".
    She works for the Foreign Office, and has since been allowed to go home.
     
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    Agree that the response was brilliant and we certainly seem to have learnt a lot there in the past few years.
     
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    If you don't like the Mail I would suggest you don't read it as it seems to upset you so much. If someone tells them it was someone Asian they should report it just the same as saying it was a man or a one legged dog. It's what all journalists do.
     
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    I see the Independant ****ed up and named a guy it isn't, they evey said the police said it.

    RIP the poor victims. Hope the injured recover.
     
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    Channel 4 now not rebroadcasting the news on their +1 channel.

    They named the alleged perpetrator, then tried retracting it by saying they're 'not as sure as they were' about the claim just moments later.

    Their news show ended with the brother, and additionally, the solicitor of alleged perpetrator saying his client is not the man who attacked parliament today.

    What a massive **** up - better get the legal team ready...
     
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