This is the article, not the BBC link below https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/8/13/the-priceless-racism-of-the-duke-of-edinburgh On Friday, April 9, 2021, 09:29:59 AM PDT, George Pinto <[email protected]> wrote: The priceless racism of the Duke of Edinburgh
The priceless racism of the Duke of Edinburgh Excerpts from the article: Prince Philip – how shall we put it gently here – is a rank racist. His racism is a public secret. Everyone knows it. The Prince himself habitually stages it. So the BBC needs to report it, though in a typically BBC kind of a way – by making it frivolous and innocuous. “Prince Philip’s gaffes from decades on royal duty,” the BBC headlines it. So the good Prince’s astonishing utterances are not what they are, symptomatic of a deeply racist mind. They are just “gaffes” – unintentional and unfortunate remarks causing embarrassment, things he should not have said, and did not really mean, but unfortunately did say. That’s why they are “gaffes”. BBC’s transparent attempt at whitewashing notwithstanding, Prince Philip’s racism is actually quite priceless because it comes so naturally to him. He is not faking it. He is not trying to offend anyone. He is offensive. This is he. This is who he is – and the long panoply of his racist, sexist, elitist, misogynistic, class-privileged and unhinged prejudices is a mobile museum of European bigotry on display. | | | | | | | | | | | The priceless racism of the Duke of Edinburgh Hamid Dabashi Prince Philip has done the world an extraordinary service by exposing the racist hypocrisy of “Western civilisat... | | |
