Reply To: No surprises

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There’s a lot I agree with there, but I think we need to wait before we make cast iron judgements over intent. Fulani made it sound like Hussey kept questioning after she said Britain. Hussey may not have been intentionally malicious, but sub-conscious bias is a thing. More forgivable, maybe, but not right and still could be seen as racism.

“As for “blaming black people for inviting racism on themselves being low”, that is just ridiculous”

You’re the one saying this episode would make things worse, as if calling out what is perceived to be racism is wrong. As if in a blatantly obvious racist episode racists and their apologists wouldn’t say the same thing. They would then say this is wrong because it fans the flame of the real racists.

It’s the same tale every time. We saw it with anti-Semitism in Labour when many said that of course they’d be against real anti-Semitism and that the claims made were inviting the real anti-Semites to take advantage. Yet when examples of anti-Semites making Holocaust denial claims, artwork of Jews with stereotypical features and star of Davids with swastikas came out these people were silent.

I am categorically not saying you are like this or don’t care about racism. My point is that this is a bad argument because it implies it’s wrong to complain about racism

“The idea that Ngozi Fulani is perfect because she’s black is as nonsensical as claiming that someone is bad because they’re white.”

Can you get through one post without straw manning me please? Please point to where I said black people are inherently perfect. My point had sod all to do with identity politics nonsense. The point you’re responding to has nothing to do with what you’re rebutting with. I wasn’t saying black people are perfect, I wasn’t implying you don’t like black people. Enough with these ridiculous misinterpretations.