@Tattered @JoshuaHolland in the 90s I lived in an affluent,...

@Tattered @JoshuaHolland in the 90s I lived in an affluent, liberal area of SE England (the town of Reading, which is a bit like "British Seattle"). Thames Valley Police were instructed to record the ethnicity of those they stopped and searched.

I am of East/SE Asian ancestry (which is code IC5 in UK), but nearly always got recorded on the sheet as IC1 (White) whenever I got stop checked..

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Simon π man ⚛️🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦

@vfrmedia @Tattered @JoshuaHolland I used to live there in the 90s too. But actually being IC1 I never got stopped and searched.

17 Jul 2023 at 0:43 | Open on mastodon.social

Tom Forsyth

@vfrmedia @Tattered @JoshuaHolland What the apartheid-era South Africans called an "Honorary White" to make it totally not racist at all.

17 Jul 2023 at 5:12 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

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