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- Jan 18, 2023
This might be a little bit powerlevel-y, but due to some upsetting recent events in my personal life, I have recently had to make a report to Crimestoppers. The Crimestoppers website has a 'Most Wanted' section, where in the interests of public safety and crime reporting, mugshots of various British criminals are shown.
Well, I say 'British'...
Because I genuinely had to go through three entire pages before I saw a white face. It was literally Paki, Paki, nigger, nigger, Paki, nigger, one lone chink, Paki, Paki, nigger, nigger, some swarthy Eastern European muttoid, Paki, Paki, and then eventually, after wall to wall ugly brownoid faces, finally a white guy.
Because of the way it was laid out, I couldn't help but think nostalgically of 'the Wall of Shame' from Crimewatch.
For those not in the know, or those outside Britain, there used to be an iconic public information/police investigation crime programme in the UK called Crimewatch. They reported on real life crimes that had happened and asked for the British public's assistance in solving the cases, asking that if they had any information they call into the programme and speak to the police. It was on the BBC for a very long time, over thirty years, I think, and appeals on Crimewatch have helped out in countless criminal investigations. A lot of old episodes are available to watch for free on YouTube, including one infamous edition, about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Crimewatch was very much a fixture of British life for quite some time - to the point where there was a popular joke in Bongland back in the day that would go something along the lines of:
"Oh, I saw you on telly, the other day."
"Oh yeah? What was that? Crimewatch?! Ho ho! Tee hee!"
The Wall of Shame was a segment on Crimewatch where they would show the faces of various criminals who were at large or caught on CCTV committing various acts of criminal malfeasance or whatever.
And then I remembered that they stopped doing that segment after a while. For some reason.
And then I remembered that Crimewatch isn't even on television any more, because the BBC cancelled it. In 2016. For some reason.
And I wondered why on earth a publicly funded institution, like the BBC, would decide to cancel a popular, relevant programme that not only informed the public about crimes and criminals in their areas, but also directly lead to countless crimes being solved and countless criminals being brought to justice?
And a part of me started to wonder that maybe, if the BBC was showing pictures of the sort of people that the Crimestoppers website is now showing, week after week, someone somewhere, perhaps got a little bit worried that maybe the Great British public would start wondering if diversity really is our strength, as the establishment keep telling us, and perhaps they ought to put the kibosh on it. Maybe it was OK to do a segment like that, thirty or so years ago, when the British immigration figures weren't quite as high and the British demographics weren't quite as 'colourful', but now, in the Current Year, maybe we need to start keeping quiet about exactly who's doing what crimes in this country. For some reason.
Well, I say 'British'...
Because I genuinely had to go through three entire pages before I saw a white face. It was literally Paki, Paki, nigger, nigger, Paki, nigger, one lone chink, Paki, Paki, nigger, nigger, some swarthy Eastern European muttoid, Paki, Paki, and then eventually, after wall to wall ugly brownoid faces, finally a white guy.
Because of the way it was laid out, I couldn't help but think nostalgically of 'the Wall of Shame' from Crimewatch.
For those not in the know, or those outside Britain, there used to be an iconic public information/police investigation crime programme in the UK called Crimewatch. They reported on real life crimes that had happened and asked for the British public's assistance in solving the cases, asking that if they had any information they call into the programme and speak to the police. It was on the BBC for a very long time, over thirty years, I think, and appeals on Crimewatch have helped out in countless criminal investigations. A lot of old episodes are available to watch for free on YouTube, including one infamous edition, about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Crimewatch was very much a fixture of British life for quite some time - to the point where there was a popular joke in Bongland back in the day that would go something along the lines of:
"Oh, I saw you on telly, the other day."
"Oh yeah? What was that? Crimewatch?! Ho ho! Tee hee!"
The Wall of Shame was a segment on Crimewatch where they would show the faces of various criminals who were at large or caught on CCTV committing various acts of criminal malfeasance or whatever.
And then I remembered that they stopped doing that segment after a while. For some reason.
And then I remembered that Crimewatch isn't even on television any more, because the BBC cancelled it. In 2016. For some reason.
And I wondered why on earth a publicly funded institution, like the BBC, would decide to cancel a popular, relevant programme that not only informed the public about crimes and criminals in their areas, but also directly lead to countless crimes being solved and countless criminals being brought to justice?
And a part of me started to wonder that maybe, if the BBC was showing pictures of the sort of people that the Crimestoppers website is now showing, week after week, someone somewhere, perhaps got a little bit worried that maybe the Great British public would start wondering if diversity really is our strength, as the establishment keep telling us, and perhaps they ought to put the kibosh on it. Maybe it was OK to do a segment like that, thirty or so years ago, when the British immigration figures weren't quite as high and the British demographics weren't quite as 'colourful', but now, in the Current Year, maybe we need to start keeping quiet about exactly who's doing what crimes in this country. For some reason.
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