Very long post, sorry - tl;dr if you like.
Born in Kenya and having gone to a multicultural school - my best friend was Kubilay Khan (seriously). [His parents were with the Turkish Embassy and they had the very interesting and huge family tree on the wall]. In my school were Muslims, Sikh's, Hindu's, Christians, Catholics, South Koreans, Japanese - you name it. No Americans. The Americans went to the International School of Kenya (ISK) with it's Olympic swimming pool and top notch facilities/teachers. 99% US children.
But back in the UK, I was subject to prejudice from Jo Public - 'it's alright for you, you had servants and chauffer's and lived the life of Riley. 'Why aren't you black?' 'If you like Africa so much, why don't you go back there?' [polite versions]. I was even on the receiving end of prejudice from teachers. Like I had a silver spoon in my mouth. In Kenya we didn't own a TV or a washing machine. Our house was rented. Our landlord was black (good guy). We had a cleaner and washer woman called Anna - she was part of the family. She had her own accommodation paid for by us, paid holidays, paid maternity leave. 1 third of my mothers salary was paying her, 1 third rent and the rest we had to live on (for a while).
So the difference between the reality and the stereotype was stark. The lack of understanding of different cultures - all Asians are 'Paki's' amongst many white people. Like him or loathe him, George Galloway is one of the few politicians that has crossed the cultural divide. I have met George on a few occasions - that's another story.
If you have innate prejudices then you were always walking the tightrope between what you actually felt and what you thought was socially acceptable to say. Now we are increasingly living in an environment where people display that inner prejudice and feel no shame. Uncle Bob from Shoreditch always had reservations about the darkies but now Uncle Bob feels empowered by the flag shaggers and a political movement that blames all the brown people. The more the rhetoric of immigration and the problems associated with high numbers is pushed and pushed with underlined and in bold - cost, crime (actual or perceived), loss of culture (actual or perceived), the more that sector of the proletariat feel cemented and clear in their position. The louder the noise, the deeper the cultural isolation becomes. The prejudiced already felt threatened in the first instance and it's easy to shout hatred under the protection of the mob, re-enforcement through media and a political party.
The Jenrick's, with their private educations, can present a political view with silky articulation and the gammon's suck their cocks with glee and empowerment and a feeling of representation. They don't actually fully understand the articulation nor the manipulation behind the spiel. It just sounds good and it's very convincing - especially as it ticks the boxes of people made to feel powerless against the onslaught of millions coming to take their culture away and eat the Swans and make the country go to the dogs. Never once questioning their own apathy, their own lack of understanding or a different pov and an inability to see a bigger picture.
From the MAGA playbook, page 101:
Get the recipient to agree that immigration is a problem, convince them that you have the solution and if you don't find a solution, the country is going to be ruined and you'll have no health care and there will be no money to fix anything and granny won't have a home to go to because it will be full of Somali's and the schools will go to ruin. If the recipient doesn't agree, they in denial of the fact. They are also anti-British with added implication of traitor. 'The government have done that before, it's not working therefore we need to do x, y and z and then the country (and you) will be saved'.
It was always difficult to legislate for thick but now we have an added bonus feature; intelligent racists who are in politics and are in politics to wield the prejudice with justification fuelled and promoted by the bugle's of well presented, seemingly factual hate; Daily Heil, GB News, X etc.
