This country (UK) is *consistently* so alarmingly, deliberately, obtuse and in denial when it comes to talking about race and racism. That a tory donor (who also has a number of NHS contracts because, of course), can talk about having a murderous hatred of Diane Abbott that is sufficiently strong enough to make him hate all Black women, and people are genuinely going 'it was rude, but was it racist?'... give me strength
MPs, commentators and donors will come out with the most vile, explicitly racist venom, and journalists will seriously entertain them saying 'I haven't got a racist bone in my body' or some such nonsense, all because people here have kidded themselves into believing that racism is strictly limited to a handful of Very Bad People™️, apartheid South Africa and the entire US Deep South.
And if they do manage to acknowledge that the most obvious explicitly racist rant is, indeed racist, they most certainly will not have the powers to reflect on their own behaviours to see if there's a pattern. Politicians and journalists playing fast and loose with 'culture wars' bs day and night, as if there'll be no casualties. And then falsely invoking concern over MPs' safety in order to sabotage a concensus vote against the genocide of Palestinians. Diane Abbott has been in the receiving end of the majority of the abuse faced by all MPs, and not only has she *never* received support from the likes of Dear Leader Keith, but the fucker actually gave her the boot for her troubles
And to think that Gove is currently presiding on a new definition of extremism to harass us with. Bitch, the call is coming from inside the house!
It's always been a problem that racism is so often framed as an individual making poor choices or being ignorant and 'doing a racism', rather than understanding it as being a fundamental factor in the socio political organisation of the world for some 500 odd years. Racism is seen as 'bad', but only in an abstract sense that absolves society at large of culpability and reduces it to a bothersome (but only if you - the individual- choose to let it bother you🙃), individual flaw
We've spoken up, written books, protested, 'debated', reminded the world that Black people did not invent or benefit from this racial hierarchy which now permeates everything and perhaps therefore cannot reasonablybe expected to be the ones to fux it, and yet here we are...
Meanwhile, an awful lot of people still seem convinced that because we have an Asian PM and the party in power is more ethnically diverse than snyone would have believed possible 20 years ago, we've got it sussed. Those people cannot begin to grasp that the entire tory party could be comprised of Black, Asian, muslim & women candidates, and it would still be upholding the white supremacist heteropatriarchy. When Sunak has to defend his dodgy premiership by invoking some 'protect our wimmin from dangerous migrants' like some retro NF dickhead, that should tell you everything you need to know if you have the range to understand
