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Equal chance of getting a job would require positive descrimination in many cases just to overcome institutional bias - see the tests using foreign sounding names when merely applying.

I said "my`' opinions, I then try to open my ears to the lived experience of racism.

I'm afraid you're missing so much of this. Ive tried to stop listening ti my "opinion" and start listening to black voices. One of the things I've picked up is that it is insufficient to be "not a racist" oneself, one need to be actively anti-racist. The first is just a form of passive...

First they came for the statues...........

With noise it seems like a lacklustre game. Without noise it seems like a reasonably upbeat training match.

Are you preferring it with or without?

Racists commonly use monkey taunts/chants/comments at black people (see Trafalgar Square on Saturday). The racists have already done the equating for her.

I really don't think you've been paying attention to the last 20 odd years where neoliberal capitalism has been stripping money out of the system at a frightening rate putting it in the hands of a very small number of people who then pay minimal, if any, tax on it. On top of that, as someone...

I expect the team that has got us so close to relegation to be allowed to finish the job. Seems only fair and sensible.

There are a lot of people (some I suspect disingenuously) posting stuff like "what about whiteface" "whatabout reverse racism" 'don't all lives matter" . At the moment there is a whole host of good, articulate writing out there answering these questions. Why, if you genuinely wanted answers to...

Snowflakes in abundance this morning

I do think its odd that lots of racists (I'm not talking about EDL types here, just your everyday racists) don't own their views. They dart into conversations or threads, drop a little racism and then spend a lot of time denying that they are racist at all. Seems odd to me.

It was shit and it punched down, so who cares.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

I despair

"All lives matter" has become a racist dog whistle

He lives in Brighton but he's not an Albion fan.

And the loathing level rises another inch or two.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/may/17/its-offensive-for-big-clubs-to-suggest-theyre-at-financial-risk?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVS19XZWVrZGF5cy0yMDA1MTg%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK Good article. The PL obsession...

At no stage was this ever Labour policy