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So do you think that the 4 being found not guilty was the right decision?
I think it can be appraised from a multitude of positions, and I really wish it was possible for us - on the Forum and in our wider society - to be able to discuss the full spectrum of those positions without descending immediately into trench warfare.
Jingle_Jangle
What I have attempted to allude to is that people are treated very differently 'in the news' according to their racial / sexual / financial background.
My initial use of the term 'Posh Bird' was used to refer to a women - who was undoubtedly wealthy - who was bemoaning the fact that since Brexit she could no longer get Eastern European people to work for cheaps. She was presented in the press as some sort of angel who through no fault of her own had fallen on hard times because those simple people who don't understand things like macro-economics had voted for Brexit.
My use of the term 'Posh Bird' wasn't meant to be mysogynistic, but to highlight the fact that things can be read, and looked at differently. Had that been a story about a brown man struggling to get people from Bangladesh to work in a factory for minimum wage, I think it would have been reported rather differently.
Similarly, I believe the "Colston Four' have been treated differently, both by the press and by the legal system, because they are white and - at least a bit - middle class.
That doesn't mean I have a problem with either women, or middle class people - it just means that I think it's important to question everything. I also try - and often fail - to convey meaning epigramatically.