Is there a sane person who can disagree with a single word Louise Casey is saying on Radio4 #Today right now?
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
All of the research I have seen finds white middle class people to be most segregated -residentially but also at work & social
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Replying to @LucyMayblin
this is a largely white country. It's not the job of people already living here to integrate. It's the job of new arrivals.
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Replying to @JuliaHB1 @LucyMayblin
By equating 'new arrivals' with 'non-whiteness' you reveal the essential racism underlying your statement, Julia.
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Replying to @M_Z_Harrison @LucyMayblin
no, Lucy raised the white issue, not me. The entire report is about a failure of ethnic AND religious integration
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Replying to @JuliaHB1 @LucyMayblin
You raise the question of 'whiteness' directly in your tweet. New arrivals who are white are presumably OK.
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Replying to @M_Z_Harrison
the white middle class is largely made up of non-migrants, don't you think? I didn't imply anything about migrant ethnicity
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
Do you really believe "white" to be a coherent identity, to be usefully contrasted with "new arrivals"?
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no, it was Twitter shorthand in response to her point about white middle class. it does not imply new arrivals aren't white.
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