Carole Malone says if you stop singing a song that brags about being the country that enslaved black people, it will "foster racism".
See also:
Don't let women vote or you'll make men more sexist...
Don't allow gay marriage or you'll get more homophobia...
Thank you @skygillian
Put it this way:
(this isn't an exaggeration because slavery involved a lot of rape)
If there was a song written by a known rapist, about how he'd never been raped, you'd never sing that as you'd know he was bragging about his position at the top of the food chain. #RuleBritannia
IT GETS BETTER! @gillianjoseph is absolutely right! Carole argues that removing things that are racist against black people will make people angry at against black people.
You would only argue that (without qualifying it, and she didn't) if you thought that viewpoint had merit.
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Can you imagine if, during the years of Brexit renegotiations (2020-24), journalists had grilled the Tories on their manifesto promise to get Brexit done.... as much as they're now grilling Labour on whether they're "taxing working people"?
It shows they CAN do their jobs.
They just chose not to with the Tories.
Look at this.
It's very good journalism by @WilfredFrost, exposing that the Labour manifesto used the technicality of not directly taxing working people, but it still hits them.
"Get Brexit Done" was literally the title of the Tory manifesto and was NEVER challenged like this.
Boris Johnson started renegotiations SIX MONTHS after winning an election on a promise to end the Brexit negotiations.
So there's nothing subjective about the fact that the Tory government was elected on a lie.
Yet NOT ONE news station categorically communicated that fact.