"Would you care to join me in demonstrating how we can disagree without rancour"
Bit difficult with someone who calls you a liar and refuses to respond to facts Dave
Keith Chooses to expose himself to attacks with his obsessive hatred of minorities - don;t know how to deal with that one
"If I was to say to you that your comments about the British being racist are in themselves a racist statement, how would you react"
As I have4 in the past Dave - WITH EVIDENCE
I have attempted to qualify my statement by putting it in both a historical and social context
I believe British Racism stems from out Imperial past when to be foreign was to be inferior and exploitable - I'm old enough to remember this actually taught in schools and used as an excuse to not let go of our colonies - "They aren't ready to govern themselves" was regularly used to oppose independence.
We even sang hymns in school which talked about being foreign as being "in errors chain" (see 'From Greenland's Icy Mountains')
Since then, politicians have used the presence of foreigners to cover up their own failures and more recently, to win elections - Brexit and the U.S. Presidential Election were fought an an anti-foreigner ticket, and Ukip had no policy other than getting out of Europe and stopping immigration (thankfully - that party appears to be dead in the water).
Racism in Britain tends to be largely passive, only surfacing at ties of hardship and recession.
The worrying thing is that racism appears to be hardening, particularly against immigrants
During my lifetime Britain was accepting refugees from Europe who were fleeing Nazism - now many seem happy to see dead refugee children carried from the sea and still refuse to recognise the plight of people that we have helped to cause
You want an immediate example - go look up the sharp rise in racist incidents following Brexit
Jim Carroll