On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:01:11 +0100, Hils wrote:

Chris Tolley wrote:
Hils wrote:
Odd how we read more about Asian [sic] women being "victims" than about
unemployed men.

I suspect that it isn't odd at all, but predetermined by our selection
of what we read.

Moreover, the women of Asian heritage who are driven to take their lives
often have been victims of abuse from an identifiable abuser, whereas
someone who is unemployed has rarely been victimised by one person,
unless you are going to lay the blame for their state at the door of the
person who puts the figures in the spreadsheet.

Semantic sophistry. Asian-heritage women choose to stay in abusive
environments. If some of them don't understand enough about British
culture or the English language to go to the police or social services
before they reach the stage of stepping in front of a train, the
questions to be asked are why don't they understand those things?


Asian-heritage women CHOOSE to stay

That ain't much of a choice.

Surely, they are FORCED regardless.

Mefinks one needs to be a little more culturally sensitive...

The unemployed people who "choose" (in the Daily Mail sense)
unemployment are probably those best able to handle it. Who knows what
they do? Alcoholics, druggies, dope dealers, cash-in-handers,
sofa-surfers, muggers, people with chronic illnesses which are not
recognised by the DWP but which are recognised all too well by
employers? The ones who become suicidal will, I'd guess, be educated,
perhaps ex-professionals who have already unsuccessfully applied for
hundreds of jobs or bright youngsters trapped in sink estates with no
"social mobility".

BBC headline today "Nick Clegg declares war on nepotism".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12962487

Good luck with that one, Nick old boy...