{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/25547.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":25547,"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"HMG should enact legislation against making racial (other verbal) abuse/taunts & harassment in public & preventing such abuse from escalating further","background":null,"additional_details":"Race Relations Act 1976 & Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 do not address the issues of racial taunts in a public place, like youths in parks making meaningless taunts to passerbys. We need new legislation to ensure police take racial taunts in public seriously & take appropriate action immediately to prevent the taunts escalating further into other crimes. Using racial (or any other verbal taunts) insults can SEVERLY affect a person’s self-concept & cause distress, alarm, persecute, depress the victim in the ACTUAL receiving end of such verbal & psychological abuse. What is regarded as racism depends on the context, intention, frequency & manner it was said. Racist terms used can range from banter, carelessness, a form of swearing to degrading prejudice, expressing disgust, as well as bullying, hatred, discrimination, etc. Even if racial remarks are said as a form of swearing & thus ‘letting off steam’, it should be discouraged. Racial prejudices can also be disguised as ‘jest’.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-12-11T12:33:38.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:43.321Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:37:04.500Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-12-11T12:33:38.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}