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In Britain, even jails have a class system

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Re: In Britain, even jails have a class system

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What is racist about it? I don't see any racism in that statement. He was simply stating that he was more comfortable around other white collar criminals.

had he said black or jewish criminals you would have been raging on twitter spewing woke slogans. he was simply singling out an ethnicity, the english criminal did.

Could it not be that he was speaking from first hand evidence of the people he was locked up with?

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“ They were closer to me than the mentally ill drug addicts or the Romanian gangsters.” - the english criminal doesn't appear to hesitate at throwing racist remarks around does he?

you're not from the UK or Europe are you?

There are a lot of eastern european criminals who come to the UK to do business. I'm not saying its good or bad I'm just saying its part of life in the UK.

Re: In Britain, even jails have a class system

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“ They were closer to me than the mentally ill drug addicts or the Romanian gangsters.” - the english criminal doesn't appear to hesitate at throwing racist remarks around does he?

you're not from the UK or Europe are you? There are a lot of eastern european criminals who come to the UK to do business. I'm not saying its good or bad I'm just saying its part of life in the UK.

now say that there are many muslims terrorists and black criminals coming there to do business, see how that is different?

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

had he said black or jewish criminals you would have been raging on twitter spewing woke slogans. he was simply singling out an ethnicity, the english criminal did.

Could it not be that he was speaking from first hand evidence of the people he was locked up with?

could it be that if bloomberg says the same about US minorities, it is called racist, but this is not? odd folk

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I'm confused by why this is a surprise. It has literally been a cliche in the US for decades. Although prison in UK does sound marginally better than in the US despite having the same budget issues.

Oddly, this quote seemed appealing: "Prison moves at a glacial pace. As you adapt to the environment, you start moving at a glacial pace." Probably because I'm not rich.

Re: In Britain, even jails have a class system

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could it not be that he was speaking from first hand evidence of the people he was locked up with?

could it be that if bloomberg says the same about US minorities, it is called racist, but this is not? odd folk

Is identifying someone by their nationality racist?

Re: In Britain, even jails have a class system

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

you're not from the UK or Europe are you? There are a lot of eastern european criminals who come to the UK to do business. I'm not saying its good or bad I'm just saying its part of life in the UK.

now say that there are many muslims terrorists and black criminals coming there to do business, see how that is different?

there are gangs of muslim men in the UK raping children, muslim terrorists and black criminals.

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post #19

> In June 2016 [...] He was sentenced to five years in prison and sent to Wandsworth > He was released in December 2018. Theses 5 years were pretty fast

He was arrested in 2012 already and probably spend a significant amount of time in prison before he was sentenced.
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