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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Would the story have lost meaning without including this information? Sometimes it can matter (asking the public to watch for a suspect at large). Other times it just furthers stereotypes that cause the law abiders in that group to suffer unduly.
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It does because the part I didn't linger on and was stuck in my mind was intense bullying on the security guard about being a racist and a lot of expletives about what you would expect. They were awful to him, spitting in his face, and basically shouting at other customers that the guard mistreating them because he was a racist against natives, etc. The old security guard backed down and tried to avoid eye contact with other shoppers who were staring or maybe even judging. He watched them from afar until they got near the exits and bulldozed their way out. I suppose it could be any minority but the nature of the accusation and who the thieves were does carry more weight in my mind due to situation in Canada. Would you have been so quick to reply if I had mentioned it was any other group like homeless or Germans? There is more weight there to me because of the accusation and the situation all the shoppers witnessed. All the thanks you got shows how quick people can be to judge when the situation involves this sort of thing.
There's plenty of stories in the other direction from the same downtown Winners of course. I remember a Caucasian guy bullying the visible minority staff about not being real Canadians and trying to commit theft as well.