Racism in schools seems to be rising again, AIBU?

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https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16095481/Romesh-Ranganathan-reveals-young-sons-faced-horrible-abhorrent-racist-abuse-school.html

It seems a sad fact that racism is on the rise but I was actually surprised to read that Romesh’s sons have been suffering this abuse. It reminds me of schools in the 70s/80s.

Why was you surprised?

His poor children will not be exempt from racism, because of who their Dad is. Unless I have misunderstood what you mean OP.

Not at all surprised. I’m mixed race as is my husband. We have 3 children and I’ve been shocked at the staggering amount of racism one of my children in particular has experienced when out playing from
both adults and children. I grew up in a predominantly white area in the 80s and 90s and didn’t experience nearly as much racism as my child has had recently. There’s a definite shift so i’m not at all
surprised his sons have experienced this as children are influenced by what their parents say at home. It makes me so sad!

Were not was. Sorry, but it is were.

You can understand that cant you 🤣

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Mine was a typo, g is next to h. To replace the word were with was in a sentence is very different. Stalker 🤣

How embarrassing 😂 especially after being so smug about correcting someone else.

Sadly this is the Trump/Reform impact on society to make racism (and misogyny) more acceptable. Feels like society is going backwards in so many ways.

Yep.

I have a (mixed race) teenager at a ‘good’ state school in a very diverse area of London. I’m shocked at some of the stuff she tells me about how young people talk to each other.

Terrible antisemitism - commonplace, acceptable.

Common use of the N and P word slurs (behind backs…cowardly as well as racist).

Black and mixed race girls subject to frequent racist and misogynistic BS - ‘dark skinned girls are ugly / light skinned girls are slags’ type tropes.

Its like British society has gone back 50 years.

I grew up (white) in inner London in the 90s and went to a school of a similar profile. This wouldn’t have washed at all. We policed racism ourselves. Nobody could have used the N/P words without severe consequences - social ostracisation at the very least.

It’s really worrying how emboldened racists now seem to feel about spouting their nasty shit.

It's awful, bigotry definitely seems to be getting worse, I've seen so much more awful racism, misogyny and ableism recently. I think some of it is due to social media, and some of it is just that life is getting harder and everyone is under a lot more stress which is making people lash out and want to find someone to blame. 😢