Originally Posted by
blue sky
There's nothing more racist than the imperialism/neo-imperialism/foreign policy of England/Britain/UK over the last 450 years. The aggressive wars of conquest have seen millions killed and still see millions exploited and murdered as a result of the globalist agenda hatched by the thinktanks and corporations that remain hand in hand with the power brokers in Whitehall.
And this is what offends me most: people who get stirred up by UKIP or the Marler/Lee incident must be suffering from cognitive dissonance. Our coffee, chocolate, asparagus, tea and bananas are harvested by dark-skinned people little better than slaves or actual slaves. The same goes for our shoes, clothes, phones etc etc - mainly made by indentured labour with the profits collected by the super rich. Where is the outrage?
Getting people to judge and inform on their friends, neighbours, family and workmates simply for calling someone a name is the thin end of the wedge. Of course abusing anyone is wrong but so what? I'd bet that the average dark-skinned person in the UK is just as racist as the average light-skinned person. In fact, white British people are probably amongst the least racist people in the world.
It isn't a big leap from judging and punishing people because they've been rude about an individual to judging and punishing people for being rude about the government or large corporations.
And Jon1959, I wrote a dissertation while at Sheffield Poly in the 1980's titled "Is Bradford Council's housing policy institutionally racist?"
I concluded that it was. But since then my understanding of the world has changed and I recognise that for all the good intentions of everyone involved, the anti-racist agenda is a smokescreen for a whole range of society-changing measures that will certainly not benefit any of the common herd or their ilk.