Abid Malhi and Shafqat Ali were convicted of gang rape, kidnapping, robbery and terrorism offences back in March 2021 over the attack on the Sialkot-Lahore Motorway.
Stating the race isn’t racist, no. But there was also no need to state their race. Does the fact that they were pakistani have any impact on the fact that they raped somebody? Or does it just associate rape with brown people? This appeals to racists and inflames their beliefs that other races are bad. They dont write “two white men” when its two white men, do they?
So yeah, In isolation, it is absolutely not racist.
But given all the existing context, and the push to cause division and hatred to distract us from whats going on upstairs, this is absolutely racist.
Stating the race isn’t racist, no. But there was also no need to state their race. Does the fact that they were pakistani have any impact on the fact that they raped somebody? Or does it just associate rape with brown people? This appeals to racists and inflames their beliefs that other races are bad. They dont write “two white men” when its two white men, do they?
So yeah, In isolation, it is absolutely not racist. But given all the existing context, and the push to cause division and hatred to distract us from whats going on upstairs, this is absolutely racist.