Identity politics
Bionic Octopus on the breathtaking cluelessness of a Scotland Yard proposal that wants to make Asian businesses responsible for rehabilitating troubled Asian youths:
The embedded racism of this move is pretty fucking staggering. Here’s the reasoning: ‘Police say that although many Asian families in Britain encourage their children to work hard and be successful, and there are more than 300 millionaires of south Asian origin in the UK, some young Asians hit a glass ceiling at work, or find it difficult to get a job at all.’ So naturally, rather than try to tackle these unacceptable societal conditions victimizing young Asians, the obvious move is to hit up all those hardworking, successful millionaires of south Asian origin to tidy them out of the way into a parallel ghetto economy.
And I mean, jesus. Would they for one minute get away with spouting that kind of utterly essentialist shite about, oh, say Jews?