Does racism exist in the UK?
Yes.
OK, next question.
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much.
I feel like racism really does exist within the UK
and as soon as we start saying things like,
Oh, but we're not racist compared to other countries.
America's worse.
It's a problem.
Put it this way in the UK, I find most racism is a little bit more subtle.
It's, it still exists.
It's still really bad.
But it's not more.
In America you see these videos of people shouting
at black people, shouting at Mexicans or whatever and in the UK,
we wouldn't just shout, we would...
If a British racist entered the room.
They wouldn't just lose their mind.
They would just do the British thing, keep calm
and keep being racist a little bit on the side but not really kind of,
yes, yeah.
No, but it does exist in England, it's quite in the UK.
It's quite subtle.
I have something to say to that actually, I don't think
that that's necessarily true because like a few months ago, me and my mum
and my sister actually experienced like a really, really blatant racist
like aggression.
So we were walking down the street and this guy was spitting in the street.
And it was right at the beginning of quarantine.
You don't spit during quarantine.
So my mum was basically like to him.
Don't spit in the street, there's like a global pandemic going on.
Like, you can see that.
And then he started hurling all sorts of racist abuse at her
and started saying stuff like,
Oh, go back to your country, like you don't belong, you don't belong here.
Like, What are you doing here?
Kept calling her foreign, like all of these kind of things.
And it was firstly, it was my first experience like that.
My first experience of like a proper, proper racist aggression.
And I also feel like stuff like that
has become a lot more normalised within society recently
with just like a lot of more xenophobia and stuff like this.
So I feel that racism in the UK is actually on the rise
and that it's going up.
I do think it's going up.
I'm gonna reamend my previous statement saying it was subtle.
Based on what you said and looking back at my experiences,
I've, I've had something similar.
A guy drove past me and he spat at my face
and he said filthy Jew as he drove past charming fella.
No, no, you're right.
Actually, I think the ability to change one's statement and your mind
on something is quite an important thing to have.
And, yeah.
Yeah, it's important to be able to change your mind.
Yeah. I also feel that as soon as we start saying things like the UK's,
the UK's not as bad as the US, you're suddenly downplaying racism.
Racism is always bad.
Yeah, racism is always a bad thing.
And secondly, you're downplaying the existence
of racism within this society that we live in, in this country,
and you're trying to pretend
that it's not there when it like one hundred percent is.