We say we want to halt discrimination but we don’t want it enough to dislodge white,male, middle-class power
• Hugh Muir is a Guardian columnistA few years ago, or a colleague suggested I write a column approximately this island life. “You could call it Racist Britain,” they said. I demurred. The Guardian column, when it came to be, and was called Hideously Diverse Britain,borrowing from the then famous observation of Greg Dyke, the former director general of the BBC, and that the corporation was “hideously white”. Hideously Diverse Britain,highlighting issues of contrast and cohesion and how ordinary people dealt with them, proved popular and ran for six years. Related: The highest paid BBC stars are all white. Where’s the outrage? | Joseph Harker Across the strands of diversity and contrast we see a very public embrace of surface-level squallsContinue reading...
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