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Sadly, humans can be mobilised in the cause of hatred. We should bemoan & condemn it wherever we see it. We must also defend and promote a positive alternative, of how we can and do work together across our differences, indeed of how those interactions produce the best of us
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The argument that £150,000 is insufficient income to afford a nanny is an argument for universal child care provision
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Yesterday statistics were released showing that black ppl are 6-7 more likely to be tasered by the police
Silence
Today a black person suggests Britain has a racism problem
Pile on
You're telling on yourself a bit too much
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Shamima Begum was 15 when she was groomed online, was born & grew up in Britain & has never been to Bangladesh
If she was called Sarah Brown she wd never have had her citizenship stripped. She obv remains British & not Bangladeshi however Orwellian citizenship law & policy is
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I've never forgotten the 75 yr old man who had British citizenship for decades but who had kept a plot of land in his place of birth 'just in case'
When I asked 'in case what'?
He said, 'in case they decide to kick me out'
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The tactic is clear. Associate black ppl w/being 'foreign', tap into and amplify the view that 'foreign' is bad, and that black ppl are criminals
See also the 'tough' language on stop and search, which the Home Office knows is discriminatory, ineffective & a waste of resources
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My grandfather, a farmer born in rural Ireland over 100 years ago, left school at 16, never learned to drive, didn't have electricity till he was nearly 40, barely left Mayo till his 60s: still managed to accept my Pakistani father as his loving son in law nearly 50 yrs ago
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59% of Bangladeshi children
54% of Pakistani children
47% of Black children
In Britain live in poverty
I suspect this is more of a concern for their families than any other issue, yet it gets almost no public or policy attention
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Remember in 1999 when the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry report recommended better teaching of British history?
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I know I'm supposed to argue rationally against this. But this is such a deeply hurtful thing to have done, and will be leaving British Muslims reeling further, wondering abt their safety, belonging and future - for them and their children - thanks to
@BBCNewsnight
choice
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The only two MPs being asked to be 'condemned' for 'anti-patriotism' in this article are both black
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Obviously the Army must investigate this shocking video and the soliders involved. But if this is how they view the British leader of the opposition, there are wider concerns for how they view and, more importantly, treat, local Afghan people
Video has emerged of soldiers on a shooting range in Kabul firing at a target of Jeremy Corbyn. MOD confirms it as legit:
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Labour hold 61 of the 63 most diverse seats
Most of these are relatively deprived
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When university students harvest fruit they're 'picking for Britain'
When migrants do so they're low skilled undesirables and somehow undermining our culture
Makes about as much sense as anything else in our bananas immigration policy and debate
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A main reason journalists are still not looking at scores of Boris Johnson articles that reveal an elaborate, consistent use of centuries-old racist stereotypes for specific groups is bc at the time they didnt mind or also thought it was funny
In other words, they are implicated
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I know I'm only the chief executive of the UK's leading race equality thinktank, with 20 yrs experience & a doctorate on the topic but it still amuses/infuriates me how people who've clearly never read or thought abt or experienced racism talk abt it on the television box so much
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Neither Grenfell nor Windrush has seen justice
And we have a professor of political science doubting the 'patriotism' of black working class ppl even as he purports to care abt 'left behind'
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Universities where *no* Black student got a first in 2015-16:
Buckingham
Oxford
Exeter
(Which had little discernible impact on TEF awards)
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This shouldn't be surprising
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It is antisemitic to blame 'Jews' for Labour's defeat
I can't believe that even needs saying
Not that reason matters to racists, but it's also innumerate, given there are only 260,000 Jewish people in the UK
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'Too woke' only gets 2% as a reason for not voting Labour
Tho it will be cited in closer 98% of explanations in the commentariat
The gap in the language/narrative/explanation of the elite and the voters is at least as strong among non-politicians as politicians
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Full, depressing circle for me as I leave Runnymede after 20 yrs
Watching a Labour home secretary cite Orwell on patriotism to Bhikhu Parekh & Stuart Hall in 2000
Reading that the Labour leader in 2020 is being asked to 'condemn' Diane Abbott & Clive Lewis for 'anti-patriotism'
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Over 3 in 4 girls from the following ethnic groups go on to higher education in the UK
-Chinese (84%)
-Indian (78%)
-Caribbean (78%)
-Bangladeshi (75%)
These are also the four ethnic groups with the highest HE participation rates among boys (ranging from 61-78%)
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No coverage of statistics released that black ppl are 6-7 more likely to be tasered
But they did find time to debate whether political correctness has gone too far on the television
5 years of this shit
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One thing that would "'erase History'" would be if history courses were dropped by universities because of the low earnings of history graduates
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Am increasingly coming to the sad conclusion that journalists like discussiing antisemitism and Islamophobia together, but not anti-black racism, because it suits a narrative in which Muslims and Jews are pitted against each other
PLEASE STOP DOING THIS
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I have a doctorate in political philosophy and I have no idea what the hell is going on
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All these suggestions to keep your workspace, living, bedroom, kitchen, child bedroom or whatever separate
Ppl revealing they don't know the average size of flats and houses in the UK, esp in London
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The question isn't
Why are BLM and racial justice activists making such trivial/symbolic/etc demands?
It's
Why are you reading pieces that make you think that's true, and why aren't you reading what they actually demand and think instead?
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Black voters in Detroit bringing home the rust belt state of Michigan should cause deeper reflection on race, class, manufacturing, decline, cities, inequality, poverty and all of it really but I am doubtful sadly.
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The *best case* argument for not knowing that 'North London metropolitan elite' is a racist dog whistle is that you were just brainlessly uttering a cliche and had no idea that constituencies in north London are among the most deprived, most diverse, w/most Jews in the UK
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Being sexually attracted to someone doesn't mean youre not racist
Nor does the fact that ppl have sex and children together mean racism doesn't exist in Britain
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0% of advantaged white males are in the bottom quintile of HE participation rates
96% of white males on FSM are in the bottom quintile of HE participation rates
Difficult to see how ethnicity is the explanation, while structural class inequalities and poverty are ruled out
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49% of Bangladeshi British ppl
58% of Black British ppl
Live in London
59% of Bangladeshi children in poverty
47% of Black children in poverty
There is a need to tackle inequalities in London, particularly as the city where a large proportion of racial inequals are reproduced
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For every 1 person who doesnt speak English in the UK
There are 25 people who speak English as a 2nd language, AND speak it well or very well
(and those who dont speak English could and v much want to speak it well, if only ESOL funding wasnt cut by 138 million)
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Liberal tolerance for Islamophobia is the soft underbelly the far right are using to advance their world view
And it's working
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As this thread about my father and my grandparents is getting some love, a picture of the three of them in the west of Ireland in the 1990s
My grandfather, a farmer born in rural Ireland over 100 years ago, left school at 16, never learned to drive, didn't have electricity till he was nearly 40, barely left Mayo till his 60s: still managed to accept my Pakistani father as his loving son in law nearly 50 yrs ago
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9 million ethnic minorities living in Britain having to send in up to 2x as many CVs just to get an interview, and losing millions of job opportunities because of racism... might one day be a headline... maybe?
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He insists on giving... her full name: “Gina Miller, née Singh” tho he never refers, eg, to “Theresa May, née Brasier”. Otherwise readers might not realise that beneath Miller’s English-sounding name lurks a woman with no stake in “our” history
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My view on cultural appropriation is that everyone shd be allowed to cook aloo gobhi but I'm against income thresholds preventing South Asian migrants from working as cooks or marrying a non-British citizen
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A £250 laptop for every child on free school meals would cost £350m
For *every* pupil the cost would be £2bn or so
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It's no so much that I disagree with the claim that individual racism exists but societal or structural racism doesnt; rather I find that claim inscrutable or unintelligible. Where, exactly, does individual racism come from, then, and how is it reproduced?
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Slavery was wrong
But we must defend statues that honour people who thought slavery was right
Sure, Jan
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I know it's hard for many in Britain to understand, but you can speak English as a 2nd language, and still speak it well.
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If you have an Asian or African name you have to send in 2x as many CVs to get an interview
200+ recorded racist hate crimes every day
The hostile environment is racially discriminatory (the govt *accepts* this)
44% of ppl believe some ethnic grps were *born* less hard working
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If a Nazi attacking a synagogue in Germany on Yom Kippur doesn't lead to widespread and deeper reflection from the media and politicians on the dangers of the far right I am terrified to think what will. Deeply worrying times, for Jews especially, and all minorities
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I know I'm a broken record on this, but please don't refer to diverse, relatively deprived seats as 'metropolitan elite'
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@mowords
@_SidVerma
He *meant* that Muslim women are, in fact, letterboxes? Or he meant, as people interpreted his comments, to explicitly dehumanise Muslim women? Or he meant something else?
Tho we all know what the applause means
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@miqdaad
I wish I could say wow, but it's obvious producers at the BBC are sympathetic with the far right
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Probably even more important for my family was my grandmother's deep sense of humanity, whose memory of a Protestant Catholic wedding in the 1930s/40s made a lasting impression on her. Her first trip overseas: to visit her daughter (my mother) on my birth in New York City.
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To suggest Britain has held anti-racist values for centuries is rewriting the past
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My Irish & Pakistani grandparents finished school before 18, barely travelled, didnt have electricity until adulthood, didnt own cars & yet had less fearful, more open views of other people & cultures in the 1940s than academics who tremble at 'irreconcilable cultural difference'
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Boris Johnson's great-grandfather died nearly 100 years ago (1922), in Ottoman Turkey. Hard to see how that's relevant for undersatnding Islamophobia in 2019 Britain
More generally, how much influence/importance does an ancestor who died 40+ yrs before you were born really have?
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Nearly 40% of children in London live in poverty
I'd guess 90% of commentators whose earnings are in the top 5% (or 1%) of the wage distribution have very genuinely and absolutely seriously uttered the words 'London elite'
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I am not 100% certain how to interpret higher rates of
#COVID19
among BME ppl in the UK. On the one hand, it's quite surprising, given the much younger age profile of BME ppl. On the other hand, BME ppl are more likely to live in London, Birmingham, and more likely to work in
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Very important research, showing the persistence of racial discrimination in Britain, and how it drives (some/much) of public attitudes on migration
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A real concern that Boris Johnson believes that saying anti-Muslim things is advantageous politically, that his response to the question was scripted. The applause today suggests he is right, at least among some parts of the Conservative party.
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The most flagrant discrimination is against men, apparently. I dunno mediocre men still seem to be doing pretty well in politics
That piece by Dominic Raab about ending “feminist bigotry” seems to have been taken down from the Politics Home website. So here it is in full, thanks to the Internet Archive
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Saying it's divisive to call people racist is fine if youre a university professor or a BBC editor
If you're a Jew trapped in a synagogue, or a Muslim in a mosque, or an African American at church, it's not divisiveness but your life that youre worried abt
From racists
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I went to SOAS
I value and admire SOAS
SOAS was founded to help administer a racist state
Or as Wiki says
as an instrument to strengthen Britain's political, commercial and military presence in Asia & Africa. It would do so by providing instruction to colonial administrators
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10 year olds who don't speak Arabic have memorised the Quran
How we frame intelligence, culture matters, mainly for exposing hierarchies of power, class and race
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1 in 7 Pakistani men work as taxi driver, chauffeurs
1 in 3 Bangladeshi men works as waiters
Compared to 1 in 100 white British men in each profession
The impact of
#COVID2019
will likely increase already existing racial inequalities
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Again, for those in the back
Watermelon smiles & picanninies are racist phrases. There's no question that they are; they were *designed* as racist phrases
Whether you or me or anyone else is 'offended' by that racism is a separate, 2nd order question (tho a moral person wd be)
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Thank you for all the kind words about me leaving
@RunnymedeTrust
. It is a big change for me, having signed my first contract with the organisation in December 1999 (!).
I am hugely looking forward to joining
@taso_he
and working with the higher education sector!
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The British Empire wasnt just incidentally tinged with, but underpinned by racially unequal rights, policies, life expectancy. That's just what the polity was. Empire = inequality. And in the case of European empires, racial inequality
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I know I'm a broken record, but in nearly 10 years studying at 4 universities, including a doctorate in political theory, I never once attended a debate. If I wanted to be exposed to ideas I disagreed with, and be intellectually challenged, I read the best version of those ideas
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I suppose 1 way to respond to 80-90% of black ppl voting against you is to deploy the onerous ID requirememts that allowed you to unlawfully and unjustly deport and detain black ppl (& assume white ppl don't care)
Political disenfranchisement as a response to Windrush
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Let me get this straight
£80k is an average income, and even a struggling income in London
But a benefit cap for a household in London of 26k is super generous and means ppl aren't *really* in poverty
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My 8 year old has a self-directed schedule for the summer holidays
Including a generous lunch break and... podcasts?
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Nazis always, always target Jews.
They also always target other minorities, incl immigrants
How do ppl pretend not to know this. If youre refusing to use terms like racist, far right & yes Nazi (neo Nazi is ok), you're not being empirically cautious; you're morally bankrupt
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There is a really deep antisemitism rabbit hole on this site and
@Twitter
needs to do better in addressing it
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I found 15 instances of 'white privilege' in Hansards
8 w/ref to Rhodesia, South Africa mainly in the 1970s, using the term to criticise those regimes
None from 1986 to 2019
Then 7 since July 2019, w/4 in October 2020 for Black History Month, all criticising the concept
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Wow. Just wow. I am overwhelmed by the leaving book just delivered to my home. I am getting tearful. Thank you to the
@RunnymedeTrust
team you are so thoughtful and thank you to all those who wrote so thoughtfully. Just wow...
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A snapshot of 20yrs, or TWO decades
20 yrs ago the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report recommended better teaching of history, to help ensure better willingness to tackle racism
20 yrs on everyone purports to support tackling racism but this recommendation is still dismissed
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Do I understand this rightly? The whole front page of the Standard is an advertisement? For a political party during the General Election?
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If you say 'Islam is not a race' you demonstrate you havent thought very much about Islamophobia, but also that you dont know what racism is generally
What is Islamophobia? Director of think tank
@RunnymedeTrust
,
@omaromalleykhan
says it is linked to racism
#r4today
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When you care so much abt white working class children that you blame black children doing slightly better in school for their disadvantge but reject feeding poor children sufficient calories bc thats how you teach them moral responsibility for their parents fecklessness
#respect
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There are over 5 million ethnic minorities who don't live in London
That's the population of Scotland, or of Wales and Northern Ireland combined
And, wild as it may seem to all the clued in commentators, some of them live in 'the north'
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Colston was an appropriate person to admire and build a statue to in 19th century Britain. He did in fact express the country's values. That's the issue that needs reflecting on.
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What a weird conversation on radio 4.
Naga Munchetty did not say Trump is a racist
And she has been wrongly reprimanded on the basis of a single complainant who only criticised the Asian broadcaster when the white broadcaster said the same thing
Racism is racism
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Of course. Ofc it's black children's fault that working class children have worse outcomes
It's never - ever - white middle class ppl's choices - as parents, politicymakers, politicians or school administrators
We've criticised this framing of race & class for over a decade
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Heartbreaking and terrifying to learn of the antisemitic attack in Germany on Yom Kippur. Jews everywhere, including in Britain, will be feeling extremely worried: we must all do more to stand together and reject antisemitism
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Still can't wrap my head round the fact that grown adults purport to be unable to distinguish between
-An advantaged group demanding permanent dominance and exclusion
-A disadvantaged group demanding justice and inclusion
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In 2019 Naga Munchetty was reprimanded for suggesting Trump's comments that Congresswomen of colour 'should go back where they came from' was racist. In 2021 she is told she should go back where she came from
Millions have heard this stale racist nonsense millions of times
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Ugly, dangerous words, no matter who says them
"This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London, metropolitan, liberal elite."
Home Secretary Priti Patel says she will "end the free movement of people once and for all".
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Children are poor because their parents are poor
It is impossible to address child poverty without addressing adult poverty
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Do journalists saying racism isnt a thing in Britain know that 71% of ethnic minorities say they experience racism, or wd that have any effect on their views at all?
Or that even when BME ppl have the same qualifications they have to send in 2x as many CVs to get an interview?
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Remembering the time maybe 5 yrs ago when we organised an event on race and class and I got an angry email why no working class ppl were speaking
I was perplexed as all but 1 of the speakers came from working class backgrounds but then I realised they just meant 'white'
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The Times arguing Keir Starmer is asking the govt to listen to BAME communities to 'shore up the loyal Muslim vote' is so bonkers you'd almost miss the requisite, sneering contempt they direct at BAME and Muslim communities
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'Can you believe that white boys on free school meals do *even worse* than black boys at school?' is a very revealing insight into your views abt class and race
That's even less useful for solutions to class and race inequality than it is as "analysis"
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18% of people in Britain agree that some ethnic or racial groups were born less intelligent
44% believe some racial or ethnic groups were *born* less hard working
Racism is not about 'hate' and it's not such a minority pursuit as we would wish
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29% of doctors in the UK are migrants
A figure that has remained more or less the same for 50 years
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'Imperial scored highest for graduate outcomes, but slipped from 7th to 9th place due to recruiting students w/lower grades'
The implication is the Guardian wd penalise institutions that admit more disadvantaged students, even where they get better jobs
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I can't be trusted this morning with Twitter I'm so angry and disgusted
Sending solidarity to all of those who are hurting from and disadvantaged by racism
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The Sun's reproduction of white supremacy suggests a wider concern: UK journalists know more white nationalists than they know black ppl
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Black people talking abt racism too much being blamed for why we don't tackle class disadvantage while a Black footballer is blamed for talking too much about class disadvantage all in the same day even I couldn't have predicted this kind of dishonest culture war bingo-deflection
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Offence is irrelevant. The Spectator publishes racist commentary. Whether you or I or anyone else is then 'offended' or 'enraged' by that racism is a second order question. But the issue is that you publish racism. (& that some of your readers read it for the racism)
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If 'widening participation' ends up meaning working class children can only study STEM courses, and only the children of the rich study the arts and humanities, that's an impoverished view of social mobility, and of (equal) human flourishing
Studying history should not be only for the elite, say academics
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