Saturday, January 27, 2007

Time to evict official anti-racism /Spiked, 23 Jan 2007
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/2760/
Neil Davenport
"The row over Celebrity Big Brother shows that hysterically witch-hunting 'racists' is a new British sport. [..] In truth, the tantrums inside the CBB house say nothing about what’s happening in multi-racial Britain, though the furore reveals much about the nasty prejudices of certain commentators. If the Goody/Shetty incident reveals anything about the state of Britain, it is that official anti-racism has become an hysterical and authoritarian force. Far from fretting about Goody and Co’s infantile behaviour, isn’t it time we put that up for eviction instead? "