No one else puts imo everytime they say what they think!
It's very garbled - but he mentions debates & things needing to correspond & he's mostly fretting about why he's been called racist over things he didn't think he was being racist about.
sam:
The obvious press assessment is that she is racist, but I haven’t heard her say anything racist.
M:
Neither have I. But if you call someone racist in modern Britain you are telling them that you have run out of words. You are shutting the debate down and running off. The word is meaningless now. Everyone ultimately prefers their own race … does this make everyone racist? The people who reduce every conversation down to a matter of race could be said to be the most traditionally ‘racist’ because everything in life is NOT exclusively a question of race, so why make it so? Diversity can’t possibly be a strength if everyone has ideas that will never correspond. If borders are such terrible things then why did they ever exist in the first place? Borders bring order. I can’t see how opposing Halal slaughter makes me racist when I’ve objected to ALL forms of animal slaughter all of my life.
He does get the most uncharitable interpretations - The Independent printed a review saying the thing he's been complaining about since the 80s, but they think they share none of his views.
The irony is: there actually is a need to preserve the integrity of Britishness on screen, and it is increasingly under threat. Ostensibly, British-set series such as Ted Lasso and Sex Education repackage our country into something pseudo-American, using Britishness as simply an aesthetic, an excuse to wheel out some novelty accents while sanding off any specifics that might alienate viewers in the US. We embrace the shows anyway, ignoring when someone uses the phrase “high school”, or says a building is “three blocks away” - but it’s clear that no attempt has been made to represent Britain authentically.
ITV’s dismal adaptation of ‘The Darling Buds of May’ paints a delusional picture of the nation’s own identity. Louis Chilton asks whether the UK television industry is heading for disaster with its unwillingness to portray Britain as it truly is
www.independent.co.uk