Racism will never be eradicated, overt racism, especially in this country is actually, very very rare, when was the last time you read about a truly racially motivated crime? People naturally identify with their own racial groups, especially if they are in a minority, sometimes purely for practical, language and culture reasons. What about people in Leicester or Bradford, who stay within their racial groups, are they being racist by not wanting to integrate into wider comunities? Are they desperate to mix in some kind of multicultural rainbow, or are they actually quite happy how things are?
The biggest rub for me though is that the left side of politics has weaponised ism's. Racisim, transgenderism, homophobia, oh but not anti semitism, that one is okay. It is a game, racism is the perfect political weapon, if I call you a racist, you have absolutely no way of proving me wrong. Now obviously it is easy to identify racists by their deeds and their words, but you can never police someone's thoughts. It is a game that is being played, the left want you to think Britain is a horrible place to be, and only they can fix it, and round every corner is a snarling racist / homophobe. The actual truth is that Britain is one of the most tolerant societies in the world.
It has honestly become steadily more ridiculous, I saw something earlier, a complaint that a church choir was all white. I mean, come on, lets break that down, is the implication that black kids have been turned away from the choir, or they haven't been given the oppurtunity, perhaps black kids just don't want to sing in a choir, and we should just respect that? The list goes on, the countryside is racist as it isn't accessable to BAME people, I saw gardening branded as systemically racist. It has all just become a ridiculous, silly game, and frankly identity politics is downright insulting, there are black people who disagree with BLM, there are black people who vote Tory, gay people too. What is basically happening is pigeon holeing how someone should think, based on their colour or their sexuality, and that is just wrong.
Back to BLM, this is just another thing grabbed by the metropolitan virtue signallers who were cheering and marching for Greta this time last year, like you say, it is hollow, meaningless, and has just been grabbed by certain types as they spotted a bit of Marxism by stealth. It was never about racism. I see people on Twitter every single day that never utterred a word about racism suddenly championing BLM, basically saying "Look at me, I'm a good person". It is more about their own insecurities and signalling, than anything else.
I don't agree with the guy booing either, but I will totally defend his right to do so. And I genuinely want football to be about football, and nothing else.
As a bit of an offshoot, hightlighting the way certain issues are viewed by folk, there was a church choir on the pitch at Carrow road in a recent game. Well it is Christmas, so where is the harm in that? Well it turns out there was, some LGBT folk were offended by this, because someone dug up a tweet from a member of the Soul church, from 8 years ago, saying he was opposed to gay marriage. The implication was made that the church shouldn't have been allowed into the ground. Some people were quite vocal at the ground too, a friend of mine overheard them being pretty offensive about it all. So basically what we have here are some people saying their feelings out trump the vast majority of the Carrow road crowd, and that their feelings should take precedence. They want inclusion, but only on their terms, and inclusion, understanding and tolerance only works in one direction.
It was certainly an interesting Twitter discussion.
