Thread by @snigskitchen

Boris Johnson, you are a racist, Islamophobic, Anti-Semite. No, your words have not been taken out of context. No, your words are not "robust". Your words are blatant, explicit and clear. It's all in print, it's all capable of being evidenced. [THREAD]

You seemed to have a problem with the end of Apartheid. Apartheid was a crime against humanity, of the brutal oppression of black people in their own country. Yet when it came to an end, your response displayed your lack of respect for those black people.

You made the huge, sweeping statement that all Asian culture is corrupt and rife with bribery. You deployed the "goodness gracious me" trope, and made predictable jibes about ghee and onion bhajis when writing about a British asian politician.

You called black people "flag waving piccaninnies" you wrote about "tribal warriors with watermelon smiles" in 2002. The racist imagery is obvious and overt.
archive.is/GycaW

Your white supremacist views are apparent in this Spectator column of yours. Your message is that only white colonial powers can run African countries. Your contempt for the "natives" is not concealed. From 2002. archive.is/5fzT8

From the same 2002 Spectator piece, we have this appalling statement on black African men. More white supremacist rhetoric. archive.is/5fzT8

January 2003 you published a clearly racist Taki column in the Spectator: "only a moron would not surmise that what politically correct newspapers refer to as 'disaffected young people' are black thugs, sons of black thugs and grandsons of black thugs". theguardian.com/media/2003/apr…

Boris Johnson, you even printed Taki's 2003 words about Enoch Powell: "Boy, oh boy was Enoch - God rest his soul - ever right!" Only a racist would have done this.
theguardian.com/media/2003/apr…

More from Taki's 2003 Spectator column that you published, Boris Johnson: West Indians... "multiply like flies". "The rivers of blood speech by Enoch was prophetic as well as true and look what the bullshitters of the time did to the great man."

Boris Johnson published a 2000 Taki piece which suggested black people were less intelligent. Note the other generalisations about sex drives and fertility. Why would you do this, unless you were a racist?

In 2000 in the Guardian, Boris Johnson said racism was as "natural as sewage", and admitted his prejudice against black people.

Next we have the poem "Friendly Fire" by James Michie published by Boris Johnson which literally calls the Scots a "verminous race". Racist and deeply offensive content, authorised by a racist editor
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In 2004 Boris Johnson's novel 72 Virgins was published. An embarrassment of bigoted riches arise out of this pathetic work. Let us begin with the use of the word "coon", outdated and offensive even in my playgrounds days.

Then Boris Johnson describes a black character as being one of the "outcasts" and n*ggers, repeats the insult "coon" and implied black people cannot belong in the UK, because they are not "indigenous". He chose these racist words in his own novel.

Here is how Boris Johnson's novel Seventy Two Virgins handles a Jewish character. Count the Anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Boris Johnson shows both his racism (that British asians of Islamic heritage cannot be truly British) and his Islamophobia in his 2005 Spectator column. archive.is/ffgW4

Another 2005 Boris Johnson Spectator column. British Muslims, unlike presumably "indigenous" people are easily influenced, and aren't subject to "Enlightenment" values. He writes of "whacko imams" and calls for the ban of the Koran. Islamophobia & racism.
archive.is/9Zy4F

2005 was a vintage year for Boris Johnson's racism, as he writes about how he is sceptical about the achievements of Mary Seacole and that she was "invented" as a role model for black nurses, thereby denying a black woman's contribution to history. archive.is/DajUZ

Boris Johnson belittles Chinese culture and civilisation in this 2005 Spectator piece. Who will tell him about paper, compasses, gunpowder, printing, pasta, rudders, and of course all the current tech and AI advances coming from China? archive.is/udzGJ

2006 and Boris Johnson revisits his Anti-Scottish views. He also appears to suggest Sharia law is possible in London boroughs. archive.is/DnKz3

2006 and Boris Johnson describes multiculturalism as a "disaster" and yet again questions the loyalty to the UK of British Muslims. The whole article as archived here archive.is/QSOMS is ample evidence of Islamophobia, but this is the most disgraceful highlight:

2006 and Boris Johnson judges all people from Papua New Guinea to be cannibals. He eventually apologises, although, as ever, it is not a genuine apology. Because, apparently, he read it in a book. archive.is/UvHxx

2007, Boris Johnson writes about an Indian electric car (G-Wiz): “This battery-powered, Indian-assembled saloon may be the hottest thing from Bangalore that doesn’t come with poppadoms.” Please, mate, leave Indian food out of your racist scrawlings. Ta!
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

2007, and Boris Johnson is attacking Islamic, Turkish and Arabic culture again. The Arabic world gave us the numerals we use, algebra, soap, kerosene, syringes, universities, surgery, hospitals, coffee and the toothbrush.

2008 Boris Johnson radio interview:
"I'm down with the ethnics. You can't out-ethnic me, Nihal."
"My children are a quarter Indian, so put that in your pipe and smoke it."
Because being "ethnic" is a competition, is it? Ridiculous, offensive posturing.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

2012, and Boris Johnson once again trashes Scotland and its possible economic contribution. What is his problem with our friends and countrypeople north of Hadrian's Wall?
huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/26/job…

Who else do you expect to win The Spectator's prize for Offensive Poetry about Turkish President Erdogan than its own former editor Boris Johnson? archive.is/fkjic

2016. How else does Boris Johnson expect to stir up pro-Leave feeling? By likening the EU to Napoleon and Hitler. With a little reference to Freud thrown in. archive.is/X0vvi

Further on into that 2016 interview, Boris Johnson taps into the "German conquest of Europe" narrative with references to "economic takeover" to justify anti-European feeling. archive.is/X0vvi

2016 and whilst actually trying to suggest that the UK and USA might have closer relattions post Brexit, Boris Johnson makes racist jibes towards the USA born then President, Barack Obama: "part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire".
archive.is/BrDbP

2003 Spectator "diary" entry, and Boris Johnson writes some rather racist remarks about a "sweet faced Chinese" air crew member who did nothing more than try to help him. "Prease, sir" and "velly solly" he writes, mocking her accent. archive.is/jnTsA

Boris Johnson calls Africa a country in October 2016: "Life expectancy in Africa has risen astonishingly as that country has entered the global economic system." archive.is/56fUP

September 2017: Boris Johnson has to be stopped by the Britain's ambassador to Myanmar from reciting the racist and religiously insensitive poem "The Road To Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling whilst visiting the most sacred Buddhist Shrine Shwedagon Pagoda. theguardian.com/politics/2017/…

2018: Boris Johnson calls the French “turds”, which was filmed by the BBC for a documentary about the Foreign Office, but was deleted to avoid embarrassment. archive.is/FBQyZ

August 2018: Boris Johnson's Telegraph column features Islamophobic and racist remarks about burka wearing women looking like bank robbers and letterboxes.

December 2001, and Boris Johnson publishes a “Diary” piece by Barry Humphries which describes traffic wardens as “vindictive black b*stards”.