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Enoch Powell was a racist prat whose "intellect" was wildly exaggerated. We've enough living racist prats to deal with and I see absolutely no reason to drag up a dead one and his dead man's words.
Let me caveat that by saying "yes discuss it and discuss it by all means - but is it really necessary for an actor to read the whole thing out?" It gives it status. It gives it a rank that it is not worthy of.
1970s Britain was by any measure a racist place. Racist by intent and racist through ignorance. Enoch Powell was viewed by many as an "intellectual" and racists need "intellectuals" to put an air of respectability on their bigotry.
