Thread by @LMcAtackney

Where do you even start with such a disingenuous article? Its twisting logic, half truths and factual inaccuracies?

All Europe has a racism problem. Colonialism was lead by some countries, more benefited and its logics have permeated the continent spectator.co.uk/article/tony-s…

Many imperial countries are the most multicultural- and for the longest period - for obvious reasons of having long-term ‘connections’ across the Globe but also due to push-pull factors. The UK retained colonies and ‘invited’ many subjects to rebuild the country esp post-war.

The indignities and explicit racism that many of the eg Windrush generation experienced in the UK is well documented and continues through to today in various forms but often more subtle and structural, not simply the explicit ‘No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish’ kind.

More ‘homogenous’ countries such as Ireland, Finland are only recently becoming more multicultural and so acts of explicit anti-Black racism are happening as ethnic minorities are becoming more noticeable. They all follow the European colonial legacy of white supremacy.

The straight comparison of these quite different societal contexts does not take into account the longevity of established multicultural societies and so is a false equivalency. It does not make the UK a ‘beacon’, merely the UK has largely moved from overt to structural racism.

The idea that imperial countries have less problems with racism is pure gaslighting and it doesn’t even hold up in the ‘logic’ of the article as ‘Scandinavia’ (not a country) had both Empire (at least through Denmark) and is presented as a ‘homogenous’ society.