Senior police officer faces sack over 'whiter than white' remark
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Caporegime
Raccoon minus the rac
Ohhhhhh.
Lol feel dumb now.
Not sure how rhyming slang for a racist slur is comparable to whiter than white which if directed at a person for the colour of thier skin just wouldn't make sense as its always been about behaviour
Dis, absolutely no disrespect to you, but do you feel that Tefal was being a tad
“négligent avec le vérité”, in saying that he didn’t know what the word was?
Oops, just saw his post, looks like he knew it, but forgot.
Caporegime
It's tefal, fella ain't dumb by a long shot but he's also not a racist by an even longer one. I can genuinely believe it just wasn't in his train of thought.
Eh? Well yes I'm basing this on newspaper stories, you currently have no other source for this.
Quite, that's precisely my point.
Fair enough, it is somewhat stating the obvious though, I'm assume that people don't need to be told that they've read something in a newspaper.
It's not the reading that's the issue here, though. It's forming conclusions prematurely.
Caporegime
Has there ever been one of these rightwing-rage-clickbait stories that has turned out to have been accurately reported? This story is tosh; just like every other story of this sort.
Man of Honour
Whilst you're absolutely right to be suspicious, I wouldn't be surprised if this was as reported. The Police do get a bit farcical about this and that's coming from someone who has been accused of being 'PC'.
In your experience, @Burnsy2023, are there any civilian staff present during briefing sessions such as the one this story concerns?
Man of Honour
Yeah, civilian staff are part of most teams. Be that PCSOs in neighbourhood teams, Police Staff Investigators in investigations or CSIs etc.
Ok, cheers. How about any in non-professional roles, such as admin?
Man of Honour
What sort of admin?
I don't know, someone keeping record, possibly taking minutes, that kind of thing?
It just strikes me as odd that, on the assumption that the story is accurate and the remark was made innocently, an Officer would make a complaint like this. Do you see what I mean?
Anyway, I don't want to ask you too much about these briefings, I appreciate it's probably not something you want to talk about in any detail. Cheers.
Caporegime
Oh, there'll be a kernel of truth in it, an officer will have used the phrase and will that officer will have been suspended. What I guarantee you is that the presentation in the story of a twelve month suspension over this phrase is garbage. The Police are, rightly, hyper-sensitive both about racism and the appearance of racism, but there will be something more serious, and likely more persistent, that they're conveniently ignoring. The press love this stuff, because they know that no-one with actual information will, or can, comment on an ongoing case so by the time there can be any response the story will have had its little rage hit and been long gone.
No it's just I'm nott from london and never really realised egg and spoon was rhyming for that.
Haven't heard ra-**** in so long it wasn't exactly my first though I was mentally trying to find a rhyming path from egg and spoon to the nword