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03/08/2009: "Anti-racists are driven by ignorance and fear"

It's been a busy year for offence-junkies. Richard Bean's new play has prompted anti-racism protests at the National. What for?

Try this. 'Jews and Irish, that's the worst type of intermarriage. You get a family of pissed-up burglars run by a clever accountant.' Racist, yes, but more ribald than inflammatory.

So is Bean a racist? Is Hytner? Maybe, just a smidge. Is that a big deal? Not at all. Unless you're convinced all racists end up building gas chambers. And to make that assumption is to project a personal hang-up on to a social group you want to silence and eliminate because ignorance has made you fear them. The protestors clamouring for a ban are, in their fashion, xenophobic.

[ This play sounds like trash. The reviewer makes an insightful observation about how the "anti-racists" are wholly prejudiced and fail to capture any semblance of the higher ground with their hyper sensitive and paranoid hostility. ]

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/arts/3409481/state-of-the-nation.thtml

Replies: 2 Comments

on Tuesday, March 10th, Cesare said

That's some real offensive racism there--calling some hybrid jew a "clever accountant". That's some edgy humor.

on Monday, March 9th, mat said

with Muslims everywhere you'd think the writer would be happy that the Irish exist. but nothing surprises me when it comes to pommies.

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