Responses to ‘Rod Liddle - supertw@t’
Not sure if anyone has read Liddle's rant, the Twittersphere is alight with condemnation of his piece here :-
Mistah G <(Address removed)> said:
Not sure if anyone has read Liddle's rant, the Twittersphere is alight with condemnation of his piece here :-
http://www.spectator.co.uk/rodliddle/5601833/benefits-of-a-multicultural-britain.thtml
Actually qualifying Liddle's claims is proving difficult, many of the statistics I have don't appear to correlate with his rant. He doesn't quote any sources and fails to go into any detail.
The City of London police quote that from Jan 2000 to Dec 2007 the breakdown of ethnicity of the suspects or offenders for knife crime is as follows:
White: 39.3%
Black: 25.0%
Asian: 10.7%
Other: 3.6%
Unknown: 21.4%
Liddle also fails to note the correlation between crime and socio-economic backgrounds that places Afro-Caribbean men firmly at the bottom and the evidence which suggests that white victims of crime are nearly twice as likely to report it to the police as black victims.
There is nothing new here, the Daily Mail and Sun both ran pieces claiming areas of London were turning into lawless ghettoes more familiar to New York over 30 years back.
surprised people are getting so wound up about such a blatant bit of trolling... hardly a piece tho is it? more like a dragged out line... very surprised something like that made it to print tbh!
Mistah G <(Address removed)> said:
Not sure if anyone has read Liddle's rant, the Twittersphere is alight with condemnation of his piece here :-
http://www.spectator.co.uk/rodliddle/5601833/benefits-of-a-multicultural-britain.thtml
Rod Liddle: "It could be an anomaly, of course. But it isn't. The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African-Caribbean community. In return, we have rap music, goat curry and a far more vibrant and diverse understanding of cultures which were once alien to us. For which, many thanks."
Bonnie Greer: "My response would be to say that the overwhelming majority of paedophiles, murderers, war-mongers and football hooligans are white males and all we got in return was beans on toast and Top Gear."
Justin
