What does it mean to have no ethnicity? By 2051, four out of every five people should be able to tell you. This post from Tabloid Watch considers issues of representation of race in Richard Desmond’s newspapers:
Do you think Richard Desmond, the owner of these two rags, is trying to telling us something?
Anton at Enemies of Reason has blogged about the Express’ front page. He says:
Leave aside that we’re all ‘ethnics’ of one mongrel sort or another; this makes it quite clear what’s going on. There are whites and there are ‘ethnics’. How much more explicit does it have to be before we start calling it what it is?
As Anton points out, the Express illustrate this ‘vile story’ with this image of Muslim women:
Yet the article, based on population forecasts from the University of Leeds about what might happen in 2051, clearly says:The White British and Irish ethnic groupings are expected to grow very slowly, while the Other White category is projected to grow the fastest, driven by immigration from Europe, the US and Australasia.
Funny how they don’t use pictures of French, American or Australian women, isn’t it?
Tabloid Watch: Richard Desmond attacks ‘ethnics’ and ‘asylum scroungers’:
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