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UK confirms UK is NOT racist

Started by Cuellar, March 31, 2021, 11:45:10 AM

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Cuellar

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/31/uk-an-exemplar-of-racial-equality-no-10s-race-commission-concludes

So that's a nice thing for the UK not to be, isn't it Andy?

In fact, it's so not racist that the government passed a bill to hamstring any protest whatsoever just because some people pulled down the statue of a slave trader.

Buelligan

Or that its Prime Minister regularly writes racist opinions down for a laugh (and money, albeit, chickenfeed) in the national press.  Or that its capital's police force is institutionally racist.  Fair's fair though, at least the UK did not retweet an interview with Maxine Peake.

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Seems they craftily released a very brief cherry-picked precis of the report last night which basically said 'nah guv no racism here' and let the Mail and other sycophantic Tory enablers spread the word about what a non-racist, non-shithole Britain was.

https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1377151727367905284

buttgammon

Good to know! Glad that's all cleared up and no longer up for debate despite all the evidence to the contrary.

sevendaughters

report says social class is also very much a thing and backs up other studies that suggest that white working class boys most likely to have poor life chances

Buelligan

Specially if they decide to have another war.  BBC not keen on France at the moment, so I'm crossing my fingers.

idunnosomename

BBC proudly announcing that we're probably the least racist white nation on Earth! splendid news really, simply splendid.

Dr Rock

UK claimed' How can I be racialist, I like Will Smith movies'

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Such a shame about that brief period when the Labour Party became institutionally racist and disgraced our otherwise flawless record on race.

Buelligan

Thinking about this though, I wonder if it's better to turn the whole thing round.  Better for us at the bottom.  Yes, there are racists (and antisemites) and they need stamping on but there's also a lot of love, respect and acceptance in Britain, especially in the British working class.  Solidarity, that's the word.

Perhaps we should think carefully before amplifying the message that Britain is racist, remember who's bringing it up and ask ourselves why.


Jittlebags

Menwhile, in other news, fox blames hens for farmyard massacre.

jobotic

Going to be a lot of leavers and Tory voters upset at this news. This isn't what they voted for is it?

Opportunity here Keith.

Paul Calf

They'll love it. "Hah. Suck it libs: we don't need to change or examine our preconceptions at all! We already know more than we'll ever need to know about everything!"

Butchers Blind

Glad that's all cleared up now and all us British white folk can relax. Touch and go there for a bit but we got through it.

thugler

This report is gaslighting/trolling us all. Like most of the stuff the tories do at the moment. It's an intentional wind up and little else.

Dr Rock

How come everyone knows the name Sarah Everard, but nobody knows the names of those two black women found dead where the police were taking selfies with the dead bodies?

idunnosomename

Quote from: Dr Rock on March 31, 2021, 12:52:54 PM
How come everyone knows the name Sarah Everard, but nobody knows the names of those two black women found dead where the police were taking selfies with the dead bodies?
i dont remember that bloody hell. An 18 year old has been charged since.

The Everard case is one of those odd blow-up British press things like Maddie McCann that comes from a number of things. She is striking looking, with a good photo, went missing an area many knew, and what with it being a copper why it's blown up into a media event.

Dr Rock

Quote from: idunnosomename on March 31, 2021, 01:02:38 PM
i dont remember that bloody hell. An 18 year old has been charged since.

The Everard case is one of those odd blow-up British press things like Maddie McCann that comes from a number of things. She was striking looking, with a good photo, went missing an area many knew, white, and what with it being a copper why it's blown up into a media event.

idunnosomename

well I know that's a big factor for a UK media icon but there's other young white women who get murdered who don't get that sort of coverage

idunnosomename

Quote from: Quote on March 31, 2021, 11:54:52 AM
Seems they craftily released a very brief cherry-picked precis of the report last night which basically said 'nah guv no racism here' and let the Mail and other sycophantic Tory enablers spread the word about what a non-racist, non-shithole Britain was.

https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1377151727367905284
I mean, let's be clear, this also includes the BBC. No one has read this fucking report yet, which I am guessing will have lots of lengthy quotes, big pictures, and the title in word art taking up two thirds of the first page.


Elderly Sumo Prophecy

Quote from: Buelligan on March 31, 2021, 12:24:59 PM
Thinking about this though, I wonder if it's better to turn the whole thing round.  Better for us at the bottom.  Yes, there are racists (and antisemites) and they need stamping on but there's also a lot of love, respect and acceptance in Britain, especially in the British working class.  Solidarity, that's the word.

Perhaps we should think carefully before amplifying the message that Britain is racist, remember who's bringing it up and ask ourselves why.



Defend the right to organise
Depvat the naff

Just trying to figure out what the sign in the background says.

idunnosomename

in very "Now Show" style I will basically explain my own reference by doing an explicit version of it.


Kankurette

Oh, well if they said it, that's OK then.

Buelligan

Quote from: Elderly Sumo Prophecy on March 31, 2021, 01:18:46 PM
Defend the right to organise
Depvat the naff

Just trying to figure out what the sign in the background says.

Have a read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunwick_dispute or a listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07npvfh

Kankurette

Quote from: Dr Rock on March 31, 2021, 12:52:54 PM
How come everyone knows the name Sarah Everard, but nobody knows the names of those two black women found dead where the police were taking selfies with the dead bodies?
Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry, and I only know about them through the black subforum on Mumsnet.

Blinder Data

I've been fretting about racism since forever so I'm delighted it's sorted - one less thing to worry about

Cheers Boris lad

imitationleather

Bit gutted that my efforts to be as racist as possible have gone unnoticed by Number 10.

bgmnts

How can Britain be racist? Some of our best friends are black.

Captain Z

Britain is not racist and anyone who says otherwise can clear off back where they came from.