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They already use this to incite racist hatred: http://thelambethwalk.blogspot.com/2009/08/muslim-raped-tourist-he-offered-free.html http://thelambethwalk.blogsp

• jacquesm 17y ago
  Naturally, because the media just could not control themselves to mention that this man is Moroccan, even though that has fairly little to do with what happened. There are two possible angles to their motivation to mention this: - this happened in Britain, but it involved two foreigners, it has nothing to do with 'us' - Moroccans are all the same, here is the proof It is interesting to note that some newspapers carefully elided this fact but published the rest of the story unchanged. Whether or not he is muslim is cause for debate, nowhere does it say so. But hey, when you're inciting racial hatred facts are just so inconvenient.
  • jongraehl 17y ago
    The demographic of the accused is information I'd want to know. While I'm sympathetic to the motives of those who want to suppress the race, nationality, or immigration status of the accused, this suppression itself inflames xenophobic sentiment in the long term ("we're victims of an anti-racist liberal media conspiracy!"). If some particularly strong riot-bait happened (e.g. the LAPD chase and beating of Rodney King), then I'd favor suppression if possible.
    • jacquesm 17y ago
      Funny, we're on opposite sides of that ! In the case of police brutality, especially when grounded in racism all the details should be as public as they can be made.