Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:34 am
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Having just had to do another swathe of diversity training (I have a weekly appointment with HR now I'm too old to care) I was wondering about the different perspective of the community from which these burglars came. I was trying to get past the "them ****, they're all a bunch of scumbags" thoughts.
"I don't know what's wrong with these people [who took them down]. He wasn't a murderer, he wasn't a rapist, they're putting him as a monster." said a woman hanging up flowers. But in my community someone who breaks into a pensioner's house with a mate and threatens him with violence while trying to rob him *is* a monster. Is he not one in the travelling community? Do they regard robbery with violence as being the same sort of level of criminality as we regard, I don't know, selling a bit of weed? Clearly different communities rank antisocial behaviours in different orders of heinousness, but surely travellers would deal harshly with someone breaking into granny's caravan and threatening her with a screw-driver?
"I don't know what's wrong with these people [who took them down]. He wasn't a murderer, he wasn't a rapist, they're putting him as a monster." said a woman hanging up flowers. But in my community someone who breaks into a pensioner's house with a mate and threatens him with violence while trying to rob him *is* a monster. Is he not one in the travelling community? Do they regard robbery with violence as being the same sort of level of criminality as we regard, I don't know, selling a bit of weed? Clearly different communities rank antisocial behaviours in different orders of heinousness, but surely travellers would deal harshly with someone breaking into granny's caravan and threatening her with a screw-driver?
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