Flyin'Dutch' wrote:The fish rots from the head down.
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Racism is a problem the world over, but the industrial scale of it in the UK, and the open support of it by the political leadership is unique.
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not unique, even in Europe, unfortunately. Hungary, Poland, Russia now and (at least in my youth there) Switzerland also seem to be pretty bad among some (including currently ruling) politicians.
But in UK we (as, possibly, in those other European nations also) have the further problems of a populist press (who can, however, turn on a sixpence when they sense they may have gone too far even for their perceived readership, as now over the racist abuse of footballers; or as some did when Nadiya Hussein won the Bake-Off show). I do not follow the sports pages, but see images of national papers' front pages (in the BBC site's daily summary); and also Comments on social media threads which turn up unsolicited in my feeds. To me the following easily compared treatments are symptomatic of that press:
- a top-flight white footballer from an impoverished background uses his new wealth (eg from his share of a fat transfer fee) to buy his parents a new nice house and cars, and he is lauded as a good son; a black one does the same, and he is 'shamelessly flaunting his wealth'
- the Duchess of Cambridge appears at a charity public event visibly pregnant, and she is praised for her gracious elegance; the Duchess of Sussex does the same, photographed in an identical pose, and she is 'shamelessly flaunting her bump'.
And this is in the UK national papers' national, ie London-based, editions. I have not observed any comparable tendencies in the Scottish papers' front pages. Perhaps their editors reckon that their readers would not like it.
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