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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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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I have often spoken of the attacks my kids, my ex and his family and I were subject to in the UK simply for looking "brown, black, Muslim and foreign" It was really bad. I'd not be there and choose to be brown for anything tbh; not for another few generations, anyway.
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