>The numbered categories on the document include ‘Chinese/Japanese types’, ‘Dark Skinned European Types’ and ‘Negroid Types’
2008 was wild
> A Post Office spokesperson described it as a “historic document” but said the organisation did not tolerate racism “in any shape or form” and condemned the “abhorrent” language.
Lol. So they’re not going to bother try and find out who wrote and issued the document. They could still work for the Post Office and, ten years later, be in a much more senior position.
> The Post Office has apologised for using racist terms to describe postmasters wrongly investigated as part of the Horizon IT scandal.
> An internal document shows fraud investigators were asked to group suspects based on racial features.
So not only were people sent to prison due to known issues in a computer system but partly on the basis of racial profiling.
In 2008-2011.
> The guidance, which was reportedly published between 2008 and 2011, required investigators to give sub-postmasters under suspicion a number, according to their racial background.
> The numbered categories on the document include ‘Chinese/Japanese types’, ‘Dark Skinned European Types’ and ‘Negroid Types’ – an archaic and offensive term from the colonial era of the 1800s that refers to people of African descent.
Other than the language, why did they need to log their racial group?
Who the hell, in 2008, looked at that and thought “yep, that’s fine to send out”. Let alone that it presumably passed through multiple pairs of hands during drafting.
Sounds like language from the 50’s at best.
It’s astonishing that for what you might think is a big but mundane business, the managers of the Post Office and Royal Mail seem to have spent fifteen plus years outdoing each other in spitefulness. Why?
Surely the categories are what would be ‘racist’, and not the labels placed upon them; or are the Post Office merely apologising for not having used 2023’s correct synonym for ‘swarthy’ in 2008?
I was expecting this to be something obscure, but nope straight “negroid types”.
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>The numbered categories on the document include ‘Chinese/Japanese types’, ‘Dark Skinned European Types’ and ‘Negroid Types’
2008 was wild
> A Post Office spokesperson described it as a “historic document” but said the organisation did not tolerate racism “in any shape or form” and condemned the “abhorrent” language.
Lol. So they’re not going to bother try and find out who wrote and issued the document. They could still work for the Post Office and, ten years later, be in a much more senior position.
> The Post Office has apologised for using racist terms to describe postmasters wrongly investigated as part of the Horizon IT scandal.
> An internal document shows fraud investigators were asked to group suspects based on racial features.
So not only were people sent to prison due to known issues in a computer system but partly on the basis of racial profiling.
In 2008-2011.
> The guidance, which was reportedly published between 2008 and 2011, required investigators to give sub-postmasters under suspicion a number, according to their racial background.
> The numbered categories on the document include ‘Chinese/Japanese types’, ‘Dark Skinned European Types’ and ‘Negroid Types’ – an archaic and offensive term from the colonial era of the 1800s that refers to people of African descent.
Other than the language, why did they need to log their racial group?
Who the hell, in 2008, looked at that and thought “yep, that’s fine to send out”. Let alone that it presumably passed through multiple pairs of hands during drafting.
Sounds like language from the 50’s at best.
It’s astonishing that for what you might think is a big but mundane business, the managers of the Post Office and Royal Mail seem to have spent fifteen plus years outdoing each other in spitefulness. Why?
Surely the categories are what would be ‘racist’, and not the labels placed upon them; or are the Post Office merely apologising for not having used 2023’s correct synonym for ‘swarthy’ in 2008?
I was expecting this to be something obscure, but nope straight “negroid types”.