No one is saying there aren't

Yes - back of the net.

The original article said nothing about "Asian pharmacists". Arista translated it to put his own slant on it. Drug dealers are drug dealers, regardless of any other factors.

If ignorance is bliss, there are some very happy people on this forum.

If the perpetrators of this had been say Scottish , Chinese etc etc would you have been so offended.

Bloody Right
But From the Source
BBC News

I tend to agree that race is not the main issue of this story but would it have been put in the title as "white pharmacist"...probably not.

Do you know what a false equivalence is?

Bang On Right
Kizzy

A comparison predicated literally on duplicity.SO

For starters, Chinese people are Asian, so I don't see what point you're making there.

And, yeah, there's no need to specify someone's ethnicity when it comes to this sort of thing. Because I don't see any "omg dodgy white pharmacists selling valium!!" threads around here so why do it with Asians?

Can we not just see people as people and leave external factors and other trivial, irrelevant things out of the picture?

Yes we can see people as people . I however would not take offence at being described by my ethnicity. I am sorry if I offended you and yes I am aware that Chinese people are Asian.

Well, if you're specifying someone's ethnicity, (unless there's an actual need to, e.g. police statistics) then you're not seeing people as people.

As Jesus.H.Christ said, the title of the original article on this doesn't even specify ethnicity (and rightly so) but arista had to add that in and (as Jesus put it) slant it.

If you can't see that then you're more than a tad naive, don't you think?

Ethnicity is also a part of "people being people" is it not. I may be a tad naive I really do not understand what all the fuss is about. Since when did ethnicity become something to be hidden? I am caucasian and would not be insulted by anyone referring to that fact where ever in the world I have lived which has included Africa , Asia and Northern India.

Meant Malaysia not Asia oops. Getting over novo virus so you can all blame that if you disagree with me:yuk:

Oh my god

There's always been a massive black market for these. Dodgy pharmacists are probably the tip of the iceberg

Others would, though ... as you can see. One person doesn't somehow change that.

Yes and that is a shame. Sorry if I have upset you, that certainly was not my intention

Great News These criminals have been Sacked
and criminal Invest., still to come.
both in those Photos and 1 more

BBC London went to Film again outside one of those chemists
and they were attacked

This story should include references to the ethnicity of the pharmacists as it is part of the story. It may be that Asian pharmacists for whatever reason indulge in this sort of behaviour with less scruples than say Caucasian pharmacists. It may be a cultural defect who knows, but the fact they are Asian is relevant to the story and should be mentioned.

Too many people on this forum are scared to debate anything that goes near the race issue. It's like nobody wants to have the race card played against them. But debating race issues openly and honestly does not automatically make us all racists...!!

This story should include references to the ethnicity of the pharmacists as it is part of the story. It may be that Asian pharmacists for whatever reason indulge in this sort of behaviour with less scruples than say Caucasian pharmacists. It may be a cultural defect who knows, but the fact they are Asian is relevant to the story and should be mentioned.

Too many people on this forum are scared to debate anything that goes near the race issue. It's like nobody wants to have the race card played against them. But debating race issues openly and honestly does not automatically make us all racists...!!

It may also be that Asian Pharmacists are no more corrupt than Caucasian ones. An interesting aside - is it possible only Asian Pharmacists were targeted in this "journalistic" investigation, would that be racist ? Even in an area where there are no caucasian ones?

Perhaps every news story should indicate whether the "alleged" perpetrator is "white" "asian" "african" "afro-caribbean" "multiple or mixed".

Hey we could go really PC and also include age groupings and religions. That way we would find out if Jedis commit crimes too.

I dont really care if they are Asian, Eskimo, afro-caribbean or caucasian, if they didnt discriminate in who they sold the drugs to, does it really matter?

It reminds me of the sex grooming thing where nobody is allowed to mention the fact pretty much all of them are Asian.

Are you suggesting the unethical behaviour of this pharmacist is a racial defect....seriously?