Farage was educated at Dulwich college from 1975 to 1982; there, fellow students have told the Guardian, he allegedly used racist insults about fellow pupils and sang a song with the lyrics “Gas ’em all”. I attended Eton a couple of decades later, but the attitudes of some of the people I encountered there were not very different. One pupil, having fallen out with me over some perceived slight, boasted that his great-grandfather was a slave driver. A Jewish friend who was there with me at the same time told me how common it was to hear “Jew” or “rabbi” being used to describe anyone who was thought to be mean with their money. When I later saw Old Etonian Boris Johnson referring to black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles”, I thought back to the peers of mine who would erupt into rants filled with racist stereotypes whenever they saw the West Indies cricket team on the TV.
School? That’s to educate people. Right?
Like, educate vileness, ignorance and bile out of them? So the measure is not what they were like before….
Astonishing that the only racist anecdote anyone can remember is from the white pupils – are we to believe none of the others expressed any racial or religious bias at all?
That was “cultural expression”…
You ain’t seen racism until you see the action between those from the Indian sub-continent and the Afro-Caribbeans in Birmingham!
“educate vileness, ignorance and bile out of them.”
In my experience the whole purpose was to ingrain it into us, against the Ebil Cappitalists. And against critical thinkers and non-conformists amongst our midst.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C9Ap-p-Mqg
From 7.54 for a reminder of how racist this country was …
Sorry, but it is evident that the white population of these isles is so irredeemably racist that it is not safe for those of a non-white minority to live here safely. They must be helped to find a safe space to live in, because the more we do to educate the whites about proper attitudes the worse they get.
And of course, given the opinions expressed by the non-whites about the whites, it’s unsafe to have the non-whites in the UK anyway.
The smirk on the face of the Ainsley Harriott lookalike author, presumably not one of the payday loan Wongas, suggests he knows that his hyper-privileged upbringing (scholarship to Eton followed by reading Jurisprudence at Oxford) means he’s so much better than us.
Old Etonian Boris Johnson referring to black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles”
Again with the selective quoting in the Panorama mode.
As I recall, he was referring to Blair’s attitude to these people. And he was right.
They must have extremely good memories to recall 50 years later what a fellow pupil who back then was not famous, said.
And old memories are just about the most unreliable source of information there is.
Ask six people who were together at on some occasion what took place or what somebody said, even in the recent past, and you’ll get six different accounts.
Yes indeed. I was recently contacted by someone from my school year of ’69. I don’t remember him and on reflection only remembered the names of 2 class mates. TBF I was only there 2 years.