What i saw in the bit i highlighted, was a typical exceptioalist attitude of “it’s our story. Fuck off with your truth”.
They don’t like real history and let’s be honest, it isn’t taught in our schools, so when confronted with it, it destroys the fraud of exceptionalism.
That’s a bitter pill to swallow for some(most).
“least racist country in the world”.
There are people that say this with sincerity, even in this day and age. What more evidence is needed?
People quite literally believe anything.
Civilised and culturally advanced, we ain’t, but the faithful will ignore all and any evidence. The goal of faith in the singular surmounts all(life of the unfaithful included).
But he can and did say that. He has free speech. The point is that he can’t make that assertion with any sort of authority as his experience is that of a white (comfortable) male. There’s nothing wrong with being a white well off male. There is everything wrong with a white well off male asserting that people of a different colour or class should share his view of what our country is like. Their experience won’t be the same.
please
Also the endless discussions about what takeaway the team are going to have.
Just lets stop talking to each other at work. Make life a lot easier.