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  A couple of years ago Trevor Phillips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, said that Britain was BY FAR the most comfortable country in Europe to live in if you were not white. That is because white British people are mostly far more tolerant, liberal (small L) and broad-minded than our continental counterparts. Or at least we were, until the New Puritan culture of political correctness took hold. Now the zealots are everywhere, poring over people's tweets and Facebook posts looking for evidence of racist Crimethink. What happened to that traditional tolerance?
  
  And another thing. I lived in the American Deep South during the 1960s, visited South Africa for several weeks during apartheid and spent nearly 20 years working in and travelling to the Middle East. Those experiences taught me what true racism is. It's our black cleaner being thrown off a bus in Louisiana because there was no space for a couple of white rednecks and having to walk six miles home because there wasn't another bus. It's black people in Johannesburg being beaten by police for sitting on a park bench for whites only. It's Asian workers with Arab royal families being held in conditions of slavery. It's Saudi border police beating Egyptians at passport control just for being.....Egyptian.
  
  I've always seen Diane Abbott as a fairly sensible political figure and always enjoyed her debates with Michael Portaloo on This Week. She has her faults, who doesnt, but if you think she is racist, you really don't have a clue what the word means.
  
  Rant over.

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