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| Oct. 19th, 2009 | 08:42 pm | ||||||
What I've never been exposed to the kind of things that the two people doing this documentary have been - they're both British Muslims, posing as a married couple who have just moved into an area of Bristol known for high levels of racist violence. They walk the streets to see people's reactions - she wears a headscarf and conservative clothes, he sometimes wears a taqiyah - and the level of abuse they encounter is...beyond appalling. They get verbally abused, bricks, cans, and stones thrown at them, they get threatened with serious violence, and the guy actually get punched in the head. There are constant taunts of "Paki", "jihad", "terrorist"...the level of hatred shown by the white people in those areas (read: everyone, because racial diversity is hardly a byword of the place) is astonishing. Maybe it's because I'm used to Nottingham, which (in the nice bits, anyway) is diverse and relatively welcoming and at least less racist than many other places, but I didn't realise that this kind of behaviour was still around, at least in England, and not in the kind of concentration that I've just seen. I'm sure that makes me seem dreadfully naive. Perhaps I am. Until now, I thought people who voted for the BNP did so because they were taken in by their rhetoric about jobs and benefits and all that nonsense - not because they honestly hated people of colour. Apparently, I was wrong. They really are that full of pointless, poisonous hatred. I was shocked when the BNP got their people elected. I'm not shocked now. I'm fucking furious. |
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