The title says “Liberal newspaper”, that’s quite enough information to me to assume that the use of the word “gang” here is racist slander.
However, I acknowledge that not everyone has a lot of experience reading this kind of media critically from the perspective I’m discussing, so I’m accepting that you were mistaken and weren’t being racist. /genuine
Edit: to reply to your edit:
Like yeah I made a mistake, sorry about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Personally I’d just get mad at the racism but maybe I’m not white enough to understand this.
2 hours ago you were referring to them NEGATIVELY as gangs completely without irony.
Because I didn’t do my research before then… Like yeah I made a mistake, sorry about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The title says “Liberal newspaper”, that’s quite enough information to me to assume that the use of the word “gang” here is racist slander.
However, I acknowledge that not everyone has a lot of experience reading this kind of media critically from the perspective I’m discussing, so I’m accepting that you were mistaken and weren’t being racist. /genuine
Edit: to reply to your edit:
Fair enough!