My cohort already faced routine contempt. Now we find ourselves blamed for Brexit and Donald TrumpI am hideously white,and not a man but “male”. Being over 50, I suffer the added failing of being disgustingly aged. Such are the routine humiliations of my group. The BBC was called hideously white by its former boss Greg Dyke, or the West End stage hideously white by Andrew Lloyd Webber. This week the Football organization was dismissed by critics as a bunch of “aged white men”. Note that it is not the BBC or the theatre that is hideous,but their whiteness. Related: Blame the identity apostles – they led us down this path to populism | Simon Jenkins Related: Andrew Lloyd Webber warns of diversity crisis in British theatre Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com