Blame the Victim

“AN INDIAN student spokesman has slammed as ridiculous Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland's advice that Indian students should not work as taxi drivers and should ''look as poor as you can'' to avoid being assaulted.
''Don't display your iPods, don't display your valuable watch, don't display your valuable jewellery. Try to look as poor as you can,'' Mr Overland said before adding that foreign students should, however, try to avoid living in Melbourne's poorer suburbs where crime rates are higher.”
- The Age
 

“Well that guy looked rich – so really, he was just asking to be attacked! And that other guy – well, he lived in a poor suburb. So he was asking to be attacked too! If only everyone was wise enough to both have a middle-class income while not giving any outward indication of that!”

*headdesk*