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Originally Posted by xor
wow, you deliberately misrepresented my statement. But, then you are pretty disingenuous so it's not really surprising that you'd do that.
Where's the evidence that the show is racist?
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Originally Posted by xor
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/2458
This write up looks good, but there's no stats there so who could say?
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There's a whole heap of information & stats here, page 51 has a section on the ethnicity of offenders on the show.
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Police Ten 7, in common with other international police-based reality shows (Oliver, 1994;2003; Oliver & Armstrong,1998; Doyle, 2003; Kooistra et al, 1998; Mastro & Robinson,2000) functions to present one construction of reality which closely resembles the known realities of policing in some limited aspects but which is not reflective of reality in many others. Key findings presented in this chapter were the disproportionate depictions of offence types which echoed the findings of similar international research (Entman, 1992; Oliver, 2003; Mastro & Robinson; 2000). There were significant differences in the character portrayals of various ethnicities, specifically an over-representation of non-white characters as offenders and an under-representation of non white characters as police. Furthermore, non-white offenders were commonly featured in crime stories which related to violent offending while white offenders were commonly featured in crime stories about drug and antisocial and traffic offending.
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And LS is right, it's difficult to show racism to someone who still doesn't understand what racism is.