It’s been one hell of a week in the wide, wide world of racism. On Monday, the Egyptian international Mohamed Salah was subjected to alleged racist abuse during Liverpool’s match with West Ham. On Wednesday, memories of the Windrush scandal were awoken when 29 people were forcibly expelled from the UK on a charter flight to Jamaica. Then, on Thursday, Gucci released a polo neck jumper that covers the mouth and the chin of the wearer, making them resemble a blackface minstrel. You know, like you do.
Anyone hoping to cut through the background hum of structural inequality and racial insensitivity was really going to have to pull something special out of the bag. Cue Liam Neeson, who revealed that 40 years ago he had entertained a racist lynching fantasy and actually gone out looking for a black man to murder. The response of Neeson’s co-star, Tom Bateman, who was sitting beside him, set the tone for what was to follow: “Holy shit.”
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