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[OngBonga]

What you mean I think is that UK society is not blatantly racist, like apartheid.

Well that's the extreme example, or Nazi Germany, but that's not the only way a society can be racist. If there are no laws in place to protect people from ethnic discrimination, then I can accept that society has a problem with racism. The UK has laws in place and enforces them.

Society is not racist. People are racist. Some (banned) groups are racist. But our society is not racist. The vast majority of black people in the UK experience no problems most of the time. Yes most can say they have experienced racism at some point in their lives. Most people have experienced violence too. Society is not violent. There are some people who are violent, again the law has something to say about that.

I get why it's hard to see, because if you put yourself in her shoes it wouldn't bother you if someone asked you where you're from, so it doesn't seem like a big deal.

It's not that it wouldn't bother me. It's that I would expect to be asked such questions, given I'm at a party wearing tribal clothing. If it did bother me, I either wouldn't wear such clothing at parties, or not attend parties where I fear I might be asked such questions.

What if a black person asked where she's from? This should be treated with precisely the same amount of seriousness. Equality.

But you still haven't grasped the problem with what happened. Instead you started arguing that Fulani was making it up, "race-baiting," like she's Louis Farrakhan or something.

Well you're still blindly believing Fulani's account.

You can stop taking the side of the person being racist, how's that for a start?

"Where are you from" does not make someone racist. There is no evidence this woman is racist, except for the account of the accuser.

[Poopadoop]

It's that I would expect to be asked such questions, given I'm at a party wearing tribal clothing. If it did bother me, I either wouldn't wear such clothing at parties, or not attend parties where I fear I might be asked such questions.

So this black woman was asking for it by dressing up as a black woman. lol you should listen to yourself sometimes.

Well you're still blindly believing Fulani's account.

No-one who was there has contradicted it. What reason is there to think she's lying?

"Where are you from" does not make someone racist. There is no evidence this woman is racist, except for the account of the accuser.

Which no-one who was there has contradicted.

[Poopadoop]

The vast majority of black people in the UK experience no problems most of the time.

Citation needed.

[OngBonga]

I mean this is the state of affairs...

Ask someone wearing unusual clothing where they're from - racist.
Provide a service that only serves people of a particular ethnicity - not racist.

Now go and look at those definitions of racism that cocco posted.

[Poopadoop]

I mean this is the state of affairs...

Ask someone wearing unusual clothing where they're from - racist.
Provide a service that only serves people of a particular ethnicity - not racist.

Do you feel like you're disadvantaged in this world because you're white?