Sir Salman Rushdie tells LBC he thinks 1970s-style casual racism has returned to the UK
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/salman-rushdie-casual-racism-uk-1970s-satanic-verses-andrew-marr-5HjdNZd_2/
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Sir Salman Rushdie tells LBC he thinks 1970s-style casual racism has returned to the UK
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/salman-rushdie-casual-racism-uk-1970s-satanic-verses-andrew-marr-5HjdNZd_2/
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ah yes, the man who is famously known for being completely respectful of other cultures
no we have always had casual racism, this is racism being weaponised to push a political movement
Rushdie and Marr have a go at the British common man, who of course is to blame for everything, because somebody was mean to Rushdie sixty years ago at a posh public school.
It wasn’t the British common man that did that, or that put out a fatwa on him, or that tried to murder him. But they get the blame anyway, because they didn’t go to a posh public school and can’t read his impenetrable books.
It’s only people who have gone to Cambridge, like Marr and Rushdie, who are good and pure, and the rest of us are ignorant and racist, of course.
Imagine that level of racism. And then imagine being called a racist even then.
Surely this means that the 1970s-style racists have just been quiet until now out of fear. But the UK has not become more racist. If anything it’s better because it means there can actually be a discourse. If racists are open about their racism then that means their mind can be changed.
I’m white. A British citizen through descent. Both my parents were born in the UK, I just happened to be born overseas due to my dad’s job.
Last year I was told to “fuck off back to my own country” by some twat in a pub who overheard me talking about my background to a date.
It’s absolutely getting much worse if it’s reached people like me.