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I am absolutely fuming.
Just watched @BBCTwo's "Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men" presented by Mehreen Baig and I am in shock about how disgracefully she happily used her "insider" status to reproduce racist, culturally essentialising tropes & ignore racism.
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First off, how the hell are you going to make a documentary about Asian men in Britain and "what's going wrong" for them without ever ONCE mentioning race, racism or class? It's absolutely dismaying that the analysis completely removes Asian boys & men from their context!
Mehreen arrives in Bradford and has clearly never ever had to live in or even SEEN terraced houses before as she's in shock about how "close together the houses are" in an indescribably patronising anthropological tone reminiscent of colonial ethnographers studying the "ethnics"
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