See what you want to see?

We've spoken before about people seeing something significant in what could be simply unrelated casual events, and a couple more have come to light recently. Asylum seekers up north are complaining that their front doors are painted red, thus identifying them and making them a target for vandals and racists.  Now it may be of course that they are right, and that this is deliberate, but isn't it equally likely that the firm tasked with painting the doors of these houses simply had a load of red paint they wanted to use up?  And then there's the Oscars - much being made of the fact that all the nominees are white.  Again, it's possible that this is the result of intentional discrimination but couldn't it just be that the most deserving candidates in the opinion of those who made the choices just happened to be white?