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The City Of York Is Racist According To Labour.
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Because there is a small number of BAME in the city its racist.
\\The report into the city of York by the campaign group Inclusive Equal Rights UK (IERUK) and funded by the Labour-run city council using figures from the 2021 Census, revealed just 14 percent of the cities population is of Black Asian and Minorised Ethnicity (BAME). Now the group has pledged to turn the city into the first "anti-racist" city in the North.//
\\igures from the Office for National Statistics have challenged the findings, showing the actual ethnic minority population of York is 7.2 percent.
The report recommended more recruitment for ethnic minority groups, with 6.3 percent of the city council's workforce, 7.5 percent at the University of York and 9.7 percent of the staff York St John University were BAME.//
Because there is a small number of BAME in the city its racist.
\\The report into the city of York by the campaign group Inclusive Equal Rights UK (IERUK) and funded by the Labour-run city council using figures from the 2021 Census, revealed just 14 percent of the cities population is of Black Asian and Minorised Ethnicity (BAME). Now the group has pledged to turn the city into the first "anti-racist" city in the North.//
\\igures from the Office for National Statistics have challenged the findings, showing the actual ethnic minority population of York is 7.2 percent.
The report recommended more recruitment for ethnic minority groups, with 6.3 percent of the city council's workforce, 7.5 percent at the University of York and 9.7 percent of the staff York St John University were BAME.//
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William51 - So do I. I always thought that 'racism' meant deliberately discriminating against someone on grounds of their race. No-one is stopping a BAME individual from living/visiting/studying in/working in York if they want to - this is total lunacy.
As someone else said, this means I am living in a racist village. There is 1 lady who is either 1/2 or 1/4 Caribbean, but I wouldn't know, never thought anything about it; she's just a villager same as everyone else here.
Only about 250 houses here, but in the neighbouring, large village there is an African chap, been here 50 years, and a Chinese family who run a Chinese Restaurant.
So I suppose we're all horribly racist here if we go by that report. Someone should tell these poor people that, so they can protect themselves. (I think they might laugh in your face personally.)
As someone else said, this means I am living in a racist village. There is 1 lady who is either 1/2 or 1/4 Caribbean, but I wouldn't know, never thought anything about it; she's just a villager same as everyone else here.
Only about 250 houses here, but in the neighbouring, large village there is an African chap, been here 50 years, and a Chinese family who run a Chinese Restaurant.
So I suppose we're all horribly racist here if we go by that report. Someone should tell these poor people that, so they can protect themselves. (I think they might laugh in your face personally.)
jourdain2
" No-one is stopping a BAME individual from living/visiting/studying in/working in York if they want to - this is total lunacy."
What are you basing this on?
You also posited
"Only about 250 houses here, but in the neighbouring, large village there is an African chap, been here 50 years, and a Chinese family who run a Chinese Restaurant."
"So I suppose we're all horribly racist here if we go by that report."
Does the reports build a causal link between structural racism and demographics?
" No-one is stopping a BAME individual from living/visiting/studying in/working in York if they want to - this is total lunacy."
What are you basing this on?
You also posited
"Only about 250 houses here, but in the neighbouring, large village there is an African chap, been here 50 years, and a Chinese family who run a Chinese Restaurant."
"So I suppose we're all horribly racist here if we go by that report."
Does the reports build a causal link between structural racism and demographics?
sp1814
webbo3
\\Do you have a link to the report? The problem with the story in the Express is that it links one element (proportion of BAME residents in York) to the conclusion that York issues with racism. By doing so, the story suggests that this is a causal factor whereas the two facts may have nothing to do with each other.//
There is a link, it explains there aren't many BAME in york
\\A Labour-backed report has been slammed after it branded a popular UK tourist city as a place of “casual, systemic and structural racism”.//
webbo3
\\Do you have a link to the report? The problem with the story in the Express is that it links one element (proportion of BAME residents in York) to the conclusion that York issues with racism. By doing so, the story suggests that this is a causal factor whereas the two facts may have nothing to do with each other.//
There is a link, it explains there aren't many BAME in york
\\A Labour-backed report has been slammed after it branded a popular UK tourist city as a place of “casual, systemic and structural racism”.//
sp1814
\\webbo3
What does the report conclude about structural racism in the area?
I think some have assumed the area is deemed racist due to a lack of diversity - but this appears to be the conclusion not the cause.//
Exactly, Labour have decided that due to the lack of BAME the city is racist, I'm pointing the stupidity of Labour.
\\webbo3
What does the report conclude about structural racism in the area?
I think some have assumed the area is deemed racist due to a lack of diversity - but this appears to be the conclusion not the cause.//
Exactly, Labour have decided that due to the lack of BAME the city is racist, I'm pointing the stupidity of Labour.
webbo3
You’re slightly ahead of us having read the report (by the way UKEIR isn’t solely funded by the Labour Party, so to refer to this report as being ‘from Labour’ is an over-simplification).
The report doesn’t say there is a causal link between demographics and structural racism in York, but that’s what the Express has reported.
The report is far more nuanced and it asks questions rather than proffering solutions:
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You’re slightly ahead of us having read the report (by the way UKEIR isn’t solely funded by the Labour Party, so to refer to this report as being ‘from Labour’ is an over-simplification).
The report doesn’t say there is a causal link between demographics and structural racism in York, but that’s what the Express has reported.
The report is far more nuanced and it asks questions rather than proffering solutions:
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This is the sort of stuff quoted, supposedly to support a prechosen position, but with no evidence that it does; presumably because it seems persuasive.
"The report claimed that black people are 90 times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police then white people."
And the reason for this, given that police aren't there to waste their time, has to be because the records show that, if you'll excuse the common description, that black on black violence is more common that other violent situations, so folk aren't being picked on for racist reasons, as implied, but for genuine concern for the community. If a subset of society has a particularly bad problem, of course that will ensure attention is targeted there.
"The report claimed that black people are 90 times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police then white people."
And the reason for this, given that police aren't there to waste their time, has to be because the records show that, if you'll excuse the common description, that black on black violence is more common that other violent situations, so folk aren't being picked on for racist reasons, as implied, but for genuine concern for the community. If a subset of society has a particularly bad problem, of course that will ensure attention is targeted there.
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