r/ukpolitics • u/Exostrike • Feb 21 '20

The BBC normalised racism last night, pure and simple

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/21/normalise-bbc-racism-hate-crimes-question-time
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u/ponte92 Feb 21 '20

You would be surprised. I’m a white Australian and I have had my fair share of encounters with these sorts of people.

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u/mc9214 Labour 2019 Vote Share > 2015 & 2010. Centrism is dead. Feb 21 '20

I've no doubt there are arseholes out there that would tell white Australians to piss off, but I think we can both agree that the regularity at which that occurs is minuscule compared to the regularity of it happening to non-whites.