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Originally Posted by nomadking

Heaven forbid, that any "mentality" is devoid of all racial considerations.
The term "BAME" is racist and divisive. It engenders a "us v them" approach. Silly to regard "BAME" as a single homogeneous group.


Classic example of how much of a load of baloney it all is.
Link Completely ridiculous.

Absolutely spot on.

BAME: Black Asian Minority Ethnic. For that read "Black". The prejudice against black people by certain institutions (like the police and such as it may be) needs to be dealt with alongside what I fear will be futile work to "level up" - another convenient phrase that will lead to nothing.

This is a problem steeped in psychology. How do you break up sink estates and the tendency for racial groups to ghettoise? The Asians do this and seem to do reasonably well and don't seem to react to a US policeman's knee on a person's neck. Likewise a significant rump of Jewish people in various cities. So it's the black dominated areas that are problematic and why is this? It's not institutional racism because they tend to be in areas where the politics is in their favour.

"BAME" is one of those artificial woke words; I think I dislike woke-ism more than the lycra brigade when they are out on the roads. Woke-ism is shallow and doesn't get to grips with any issue other than to winge and point fingers.