Monday, September 29, 2014

Woman assaults another woman in apparent racist attack

I just saw this today and had a few thoughts on an article titled 'Woman bashed, thrown from train in racist attack'.  Here's some things that most people may not notice upon first reading:
  • The attacker was female.  A fact not mentioned until the 4th paragraph
  • The attack was 'racially motivated'
Whilst I completely disagree with all violence, one can't help but notice how, when the perpetrator is a woman, the details are left until the end of the report and there are rarely sketches of what she looked like.  Had the attacker been a man, the headline would have been 'Racist man throws woman from train in attack'.

The second thing I notice is how suddenly being a Muslim is being a race.  I believe that it's all part of some great plan to label anyone who doesn't agree with mass migration from Middle Eastern countries as 'racist'.  Maybe they're just too lazy to know that the correct term would be 'creedist' (if that is even a word).

Compare the above story to this story about a 'Good Samaritan brutally after NRL semi-final'.  Throughout the article the victim, a man named Paul, is referred to as a Good Samaritan or by name and the words man or men are only used to describe his attackers.

The messages to take away from both articles is that women deserve to be recognized in the titles as victims, but not as perpetrators, and with the second article, a man has risen up above the title of 'man' and will not be referred to as one, as that word is used to describe his attackers who ganged up on a 'Good Samaritan'.

I guess I know why I don't bother reading the papers...

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