Starmer reckons the UK is not a racist country?
Well, the institutions of state are structurally racist such that they would have racist outcomes even if nobody in them had racist beliefs.
Plus about a third of the people do indeed have those racist beliefs. Maybe more within said institutions.
The last government was deliberately stoking racism in order to use migrants as a scape-goat to cover for their looting the nation.
The country's history is of an empire founded pretty much explicitly on racism and exploitation.
But other than that, we're not a racist country.
#ukpol #racism
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