This is what is happening a lot tho. We are told to read things through entirely different & politically-charged things. At university, I was told I couldn't say that colour prejudice wasn't a huge thing in 16th century England because of 21st century American race politics. https://twitter.com/TomasDeTorque/status/981615941208469505 …
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They got a lot of horrendous racism. South Asian immigrants came mostly in the 80s and they were mostly not Christian. This presented an extra layer of grounds for prejudice because of much less intermarriage and assimilation due to religious differences.
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This was the response from a knowledgeable Indian anthropologist studying racism anyway. I have not researched this well enough to confirm but I do see racism mostly in the form of anti-Muslim bigotry which extends to anyone who looks like they might be Muslim - brown people.
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Before anyone tells me that criticism of Islam is not racism, I know this. It's legitimate. Racism against brown people is quite a different matter tho & is related. 'Paki-bashing' which happened a lot in the 80s & 90s was not a religious critique.
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I also saw someone object to a white person referring to a young black adult as 'Charlie-boy', which is a common nickname, because of the racist connotations of the word 'boy' as historically applied to black men in the US. Context matters, people.
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