>Seven Post Office workers of South Asian heritage
>The Horizon scandal saw 700 sub-postmasters prosecuted from 1999 to 2015
1%
What on earth this article about?
Racism, racism???? Why are BBC trying to smuggle it into a scandal that affected Postmaster & individual branches, that were affected at random because it was a computer bug!
Postmasters literally went to prison & most of them property were ethnic white natives??? Not that that it matters.
A very good example of BBC propaganda at work, turning a genuine scandal/problem then hijacking it and trying to turn it into a woke systemic racism issue!
Of course it’s now about racism, shocked it even got this far before someone claimed it was about their race.. the kinda thing that only a large unearned and undeserved amount of money will fix, yeah?
Fuck all the way off, not every bad thing that happens to you is about your skin colour.. change the fucking record .. you’re boring
When you read through some of the witness evidence and the documents coming out of the inquiry, it’s clear that amongst all its other sins, the Post Office had a culture where it assumed racial minorities were more prone to theft (“Oh look, another Patel” is a line that sticks in my mind from the BBC Sounds episode covering this).
The phrase institutionally racist should probably be attached to the Post Office as with other public bodies in the past.
Amazing how many people are outraged at people suggesting there may have been racism rather than outraged at the actual racism itself. When 39% of those prosecuted belong to an ethnic minority how can you assert that racism played no part with a straight face?
The natural bigotry of the elderly management class…
Old white rich people blaming non-white minorities for crimes they did not commit due to the old white rich people’ incompetence?! Shocking. Never would ever happen in good old fashioned United Kingdom.
This is upsetting. Initially the one sliver linings of this scandal was that all the negatively affected people and individuals who committed suicide over it seemed to be white, which honestly came as a massive relief to me, knowing that the discourse over this wouldn’t become too toxic.
But now it has become truly tragic and shameful.
I don’t want to diminish this, and it’s awful what happened to everyone involved. But if I’m reading the below correctly (and please correct me if I’m not)… it seems to say 39% of those convicted, who listed their ethnicity, were minority.
But then goes onto say best estimates are that 43% of all postmasters are from minorities
.
“In 2022, the Post Office revealed that, of the postmasters it had records for who had been convicted, 316 had provided details on their ethnicity. At least 123 were of black, Asian and minority ethnic background. That’s just under 39%.
The exact number of postmasters from a minority background is not known. A recent survey by the Post Office suggested it was more than 43%, but this only drew from a small sample.”
This doesn’t take away from how some individuals were treated by individual staff. But it doesn’t seem from this as if racism was really a motive at all. If anything it adds weight to the idea this was completely random.
9 comments
>Seven Post Office workers of South Asian heritage
>The Horizon scandal saw 700 sub-postmasters prosecuted from 1999 to 2015
1%
What on earth this article about?
Racism, racism???? Why are BBC trying to smuggle it into a scandal that affected Postmaster & individual branches, that were affected at random because it was a computer bug!
Postmasters literally went to prison & most of them property were ethnic white natives??? Not that that it matters.
A very good example of BBC propaganda at work, turning a genuine scandal/problem then hijacking it and trying to turn it into a woke systemic racism issue!
Of course it’s now about racism, shocked it even got this far before someone claimed it was about their race.. the kinda thing that only a large unearned and undeserved amount of money will fix, yeah?
Fuck all the way off, not every bad thing that happens to you is about your skin colour.. change the fucking record .. you’re boring
When you read through some of the witness evidence and the documents coming out of the inquiry, it’s clear that amongst all its other sins, the Post Office had a culture where it assumed racial minorities were more prone to theft (“Oh look, another Patel” is a line that sticks in my mind from the BBC Sounds episode covering this).
The phrase institutionally racist should probably be attached to the Post Office as with other public bodies in the past.
Amazing how many people are outraged at people suggesting there may have been racism rather than outraged at the actual racism itself. When 39% of those prosecuted belong to an ethnic minority how can you assert that racism played no part with a straight face?
The natural bigotry of the elderly management class…
Old white rich people blaming non-white minorities for crimes they did not commit due to the old white rich people’ incompetence?! Shocking. Never would ever happen in good old fashioned United Kingdom.
This is upsetting. Initially the one sliver linings of this scandal was that all the negatively affected people and individuals who committed suicide over it seemed to be white, which honestly came as a massive relief to me, knowing that the discourse over this wouldn’t become too toxic.
But now it has become truly tragic and shameful.
I don’t want to diminish this, and it’s awful what happened to everyone involved. But if I’m reading the below correctly (and please correct me if I’m not)… it seems to say 39% of those convicted, who listed their ethnicity, were minority.
But then goes onto say best estimates are that 43% of all postmasters are from minorities
.
“In 2022, the Post Office revealed that, of the postmasters it had records for who had been convicted, 316 had provided details on their ethnicity. At least 123 were of black, Asian and minority ethnic background. That’s just under 39%.
The exact number of postmasters from a minority background is not known. A recent survey by the Post Office suggested it was more than 43%, but this only drew from a small sample.”
This doesn’t take away from how some individuals were treated by individual staff. But it doesn’t seem from this as if racism was really a motive at all. If anything it adds weight to the idea this was completely random.