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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The video off murder of an english student recently didn't help.  He was handcuffed while bleeding out while the police officers denied he was stabbed by an ethnic minority.  The police were called because said person claimed they were verbally abused.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlpyw05l75o

The government is trying to clamp down on these videos due to racial tensions.[/quote]

Right so like I said all non-white people are an aggregate for the far-right. A Sudanese asylum refugee should be counted alongside a British Sikh non-immigrant.

When POC commit crimes its always tribal. They, them is the issue and there is seemingly no issue with using pronouns when denouncing them (he). When non-POC commit crimes its always bad egg, bad apple, troubled, MH issues, etc.

And I am sure Ill get the "its not about color/race" responses but apparently it is. [/quote]

Yes, the far right does that.  However, the far left has blinders the other way.

You should know that the Sikh guy has almost universally been described as a bad egg, bad apple, troubled etc and the outrage has been focused on the police treating his family's lies as truths which led to them treating the dying victim as the perpetrator. The racist aspect of the stabbing itself has been downplayed.

Life does not fit into our neat assumptions.[/quote]
Correct, by his own family and Sikh community. 
However, posters here and other news reports are lumping them together as what has fueled this anti-immigrant protesting. These are seen as cumulative events in the far-right because its (mostly) POC, regardless of immigration status.

This is about the far right scapegoating immigrants and POC.
"Grievances over poor housing conditions and housing shortages, in particular, have been used to scapegoat migrants and to favour a narrative of “mass uncontrolled migration that simply is not factually true”, Holder said.

The CAJ report, he said, found no clear correlation between the areas where violence has flared up in Northern Ireland since 2023 and poverty rates or high immigration rates.

“When you look at the pattern of where attacks are taking place, they’re not in the most deprived areas,” Holder said. “What this points to is that attacks involve particular far-right elements, including some elements of loyalist paramilitary organisations, rather than this being tied to either migration levels or deprivation.”"
[url]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/13/why-have-anti-immigration-riots-broken-out-in-northern-ireland[/url]- Yes, from last year but again, multiple articles about this stabbing reference the Sikh stabbing and the attempted sexual assault by Romanian refugees.

The discontent is rationale. No one wants stabbings or rape/assault. But the far right are flaming the fires and turning protests violent just like they did in the US with BBM.

So the answer to the topic question is: Racial and xenophobia by the far right is what the heck is going on in Belfast and its going on here too! See JD Vance about Nowak 
"Henry Nowak died the same way a civilisation dies: Abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit.
"His murder is as tragic as it is enraging.

"[b]He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it[/b]"

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I don't care about JD Vance.  He is a disengenuous idiot.  This isn't a partisan incident and yet you're falling into that trap because the right is complaining about it.  Why is the mainstream left ceding the moral high ground to the far right?

The police handcuffed a dying man and ignored his pleas of "I can't breathe" because his murderer lied about racism.  The details are horrific, the police did everything wrong and the murderer and his family are despicable humans.  It's ok to say that.
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The murderers family are despicable humans? Wow. [/quote]

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