That's part of the reason it seems to be growing. Gangs have only just figured out how easy it is to make.

I used it to help my poor beard-shavings sink clear up without disassembling plumbing in my rented apartment, and I read the bottle first. The warnings are stark. I was pretty sure it could melt me. I put on pants before I even opened the bottle.

Natrium hydroxide is one of if not the strongest base. Or Kalium hydroxide is strong too.

I'd imagine bases are grouped in with acids under acid attacks. Getting strong sodium hydroxide also sounds like a pretty plausible way for most of them to happen. I doubt very many of the attacks actually use strong acids and cause massive damage.

It's just called an acid attack so people understand it. If you called it a base attack, people would think someone was getting attacked with a bass guitar

Yup, East Asian or 'oriental'. As an American living in London, I was thrown for a loop the first time I heard someone use that term in casual conversation.

It's not intentionally misleading. It's British vernacular.

Britain had an empire that included India and chunks of the arabic world. When they say "Asian" they refer to the Asian parts of their former empire. The other part, east asians, we're called "orientals" before that term become non-PC.

In the US we do the opposite. We had stronger ties to China and Japan and SE Asia since we were right across the Pacific from each other, so we refer to east Asians as "asians" and south asians as "Indians" and Asia Minor as "the middle east"

It's literally just a difference in language, not some sjw conspiracy in the media to hide the perpetrators. Everyone in the UK who reads that article will know what "Asian" means.

It's not intentionally misleading at all if you actually live in the UK. In the UK Asian is predominately used to describe people from the middle east or south asian. If you say "an Asian person" to someone from the UK what immediately comes to mind is someone with brown skin. Just because you don't know that doesn't make it intentionally misleading.

TIL I learned it's intentionally misleading for British people to use their own language.

I guess calling out violent followers of a specific religion is racist now

There's also a difference between not holding entire demographics accountable for the actions of a few and handicapping one's ability to solve the problem at hand by willfully ignoring demographic trends relevant to said problem.

It doesn't matter which is better, both are clearly stupid.

There's a difference between collective punishment and just not extending the privilege of immigration to certain demographics.

When entire countries have their infrastructure destroyed and thousands of civilians killed, supposedly under the pretext of correcting the actions of a few terrorists, I would say that entire demographics have absolutely continued being held accountable for the actions of a few. PR is very strong, but I sometimes get the impression people today think they are so much more enlightened than their ancestors and I think this is very far from the reality our collective actions speak to.

Difference there is the British did it by force and when they did it they did generally fuck countries up - look at the treatment of Native Americans for example.

Or at least threw off that yoke. USA!!!

Most of Saudi Arabia is incredibly poor. And these acid attacks aren't happening to the wealthy few.

Got'em.

Redbridge- 'the leafy borough', 35% white British (and from experience, many of those who would put white British on the census are actually 'white other European' etc or due to the significant Jewish background are frankly not the stereotypical white British.) and I think highest proportion of Pakistani residents. Awesome borough, got a very diverse community of Pakistani, Indian, Sri Lankan, Chinese (growing), Eastern European, etc and an old Jewish community as well

Knightsbridge

Given the lower portion of the population they make up, minorities would have to actually create closed communities to accomplish this.

They lack the numbers, population density, drive, and purpose to do it. Closed communities are not typically good for anything other than appealing to a few big dollar racists looking to buy homes.