You bunch of six toed fuckers!

[Scouse]

Thought that this deserved it's own thread, if only because of it's potential for rage-inducement (which can be confined here, and drop like a stone if we choose) because I'm going to use the "i"-word in a not-entirely-positive manner.

However it does involve child death and inheritable congenital genetic issues that, sadly, exist in the first place, but also, by their very nature, spread. So worth talking about.

One in 14 children who die in England have closely related parents, study finds

Exclusive: Calls for ‘urgent action’ as study also finds stark ethnic and socio-economic disparities in child mortality and consanguinity

www.theguardian.com

I won't quote from it as the whole thing is worth it. But this is a problem of culture. Massive overrepresentation. And it's the guardian, so their chosen statistical analysis is quite gentle.

This is a problem that has short-term implications and (hugely expensive) long-term ramifications.

And, frankly, I don't feel comfortable talking about it even here because of the obvious conclusions people reach for (I'm not Job, I lived in Bradford, voluntarily, for over a decade).

But the question is - what should we do about it?

I mean. I suspect fuck all. But we definitely should be getting into the weeds of the cultural problems we've imported and, frankly, changing them.

Not just for their babies. But for the general health of the population.

 

[DaGaffer]

Well, you could make first cousin marriage illegal, but they'd probably work around that easily enough.

Problem is most British "Pakistanis" aren't drawn from the whole country but one tiny place, Mirpur. They're basically the Pakistani equivalent of the kid in Deliverance. Hillbillies.

 

[Scouse]

lol

So, lets play with the figures. I asked Copilot to

• Read the article and extract the reported figures by ethnicity
• To cross reference with UK government population ethnicity figures
• Tabulate the relative risks per population and give a number of how many times this issue surfaces in ethnic minority populations vs white and/or mixed

I mean woah there asians. But you may need to try to integrate a bit better eh black people?

"Others" are dirty little banjo-players too. Maybe they're talking about people who come in boats eh?


Edit: Copilot might be hallucinating...

 

[Scouse]

Problem is most British "Pakistanis" aren't drawn from the whole country but one tiny place, Mirpur.

Interesting. That explains the prevalence of "lamb mirpuri" in Bradford.

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