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[ramAnag]

Yes stupid vandalism

It seems no-one here wants to have a sensible discussion but you appear to see things from a less blinkered perspective, so here's a question. You mentioned in a post a while back that (some of) your family and friends are feeling increasingly emboldened to be racist (in your judgement) etc in their comments. That suggests you consider them racist. Do you think they have BECOME racist over time, or do you think they have always been racist and the current climate has allowed them to be openly so? No trick question, I'm just interested

‘It seems no-one here wants to have a sensible discussion…’.

I disagree. All the time in the world for a sensible discussion but, imo, you weren’t at all sensible and were out of order to claim initially that a) I’d made others out to be racist. b) I’d treated MA’s response differently from any other. c) Become arrogant and slightly rude when reminded that you hadn’t responded to the reply you asked me to provide.

It works both ways AF and it isn’t at all blinkered to suggest that there are forces at work to make racist attitudes and behaviours more acceptable.

You want sensible? Then how about you provide your honest opinion to a few questions.
1. How was it ever acceptable for someone to assume some sort of heroic status as a result of encouraging arson and murder?
2. Why do you appear to struggle so much with what you consider to be a disproportionate number of Black/Asian presenters? Why does it matter what colour/religion presenters are?
3. Do you agree or not that a large part of Farage and Trump’s (amongst others) agendas is to provide credibility and respectability to racist views?

There’s no trick from me either, but I’ve finished cutting the grass and am also genuinely interested.