First I'm hearing about it, that being said, a crime is a crime; color is irrelevant.
Always Right
Looks less like a race thing and more to do with the fact that they were CRIMINALS to begin with.
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That counts as a rampage around Ireland these days?
Captionless One
Well, Jack the Ripper only killed five people.
♭What.
Always Right
Yeah but he had a cool name to make up for it. This is just some black kids causing a ruckus and hurting white people and hiding behind the racism card.
edited 11th Jul '11 5:07:18 PM by Signed
"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."
If it's showing up in the media, how is there a media blackout?
It sounds to me that it was just a random gang being a gang. The evidence provided in the article that you linked is rather poor in proving that they were actually an Anti-White gang, to say the least.
EDIT: And I don't see how there was a media blackout. As shown, it was reported in Ireland at the very least, and in the neighboorhood I live in people get beat up quite a bit, so some random assault in Ireland wouldn't exactly be news-worthy.
edited 11th Jul '11 8:20:53 PM by YoungMachete
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Yeah, I doubt there is a media blackout. It's not like my newspapers are hiding things! <turns pages of the Times>
Also, with the ethical level of the newspaper industry in the UK and Ireland right now, I wouldn't trust anything with the slightest hint of sensationalism.
Street Writing Man
Agreed.
I think it's also funny that people are downplaying the importance of what just happened here. If the races had been reversed, people on this site would be screaming for them to get 20 years in the electric chair. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Just goes to show that white people are never discriminated against, and they never face anything bad because of their skin tone.
This foreboding is fa...
I think they're basing the claims of anti-white sentiment on the level of brutality displayed in the attacks. The reasoning being that that kind of concentrated brutality doesn't come from nowhere.
Not saying I agree with that analysis, mind. But it certainly serves as an explanation.
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I had to lol at the "media blackout" bit. I magine if we reported all the gang activity in just california.
Please.
I think it's also coming from this:
"When the suspects were first questioned they tried to use racism as a defence — they tried to say that they had been racially abused by the victims for being black.
"But absolutely no evidence of that was ever uncovered and gardai are satisfied that the culprits were not racially abused."
edited 11th Jul '11 11:42:52 PM by DrunkGirlfriend
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Well, if we wanted to start talking about discrimination in Ireland, we'd start with the Travellers.
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How are the Travellers treated in Ireland? I thought "pikey" was a British-origin slur.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
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If a black gang in Ireland starts killing people randomly (and not choose targets specifically by race), chances are most victims would happen to be white anyway, so I'm not seeing much evidence of racially motivated attacks here.
Point that somewhere else, or I'll reengage the harmonic tachyon modulator.
They're treated like shit, basically.
Crime is a crime. This one doubts that it was motivated by race (as been said, if victims i Ireland are chosen at random, an absolute majority of them would turn out to be white), but the fact that they've tried to play race card in their defence is disgusting.
Then again, these guys
also tried to play race card. Because obviously their sentence was linked to racism (facepalm). So, nothing new. People are always trying to find excuses and weasel their way out of court.
Source.
One man — a Dublin DJ — was almost killed in the attack as he suffered serious head injuries when he was set upon by the gang.
The level of violence has shocked gardai and the many witnesses to the race hate orgy — believed to be the first of its kind in the city.
One member of the African gang was arrested today in pre-dawn raids by detectives across the capital.
Five Dubliners, all aged in their 20s, were left with horrific injuries in the October 2010 attacks, which have only come to light now.
The gang — all aged in their late teens — savagely attacked six Irish people in the Temple Bar area of the capital in the early hours of October 10 last.
The gang, who are heavily involved in other street robberies and beatings, are all expected to appear in court.
Sources say that even seasoned detectives were left "horrified and shocked" by the extreme level of violence used in the attacks which occurred in the Eustace Street and Curved Street areas of Temple Bar at around 3.30am on the date in question.
A senior source explained: "We believe that what happened on the night was motivated by racism — that is racism against white people.
"When the suspects were first questioned they tried to use racism as a defence — they tried to say that they had been racially abused by the victims for being black.
"But absolutely no evidence of that was ever uncovered and gardai are satisfied that the culprits were not racially abused."
Dozens of people witnessed the shocking chain of events which started when two young men and a woman were randomly attacked at Eustace Street.
Just as disturbing is the fact that there has been a media blackout surrounding this sort of crime all across Western countries.
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