What is it about old people and racism?
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:35, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

tolerance was only brought to britain at the same time as decimalisation.
anyone born before that date tends to be a massive racist.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:37, Reply)

Ironically,
tolerance arrived on these shores on The Empire Windrush
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 11:13, Reply)

Well, in her case
I suspect the fact that she has lived in the same town all her life, she's 96 and seen it go from being entirely white to now, I think, about 80% Asian. Plus, the major immigrant influx coincided with the failing of the mills, so that gave the local white population something else to blame for their jobs disappearing.

I'm not sure how well-equipped our generataion is to comment on "old people racism" as we've grown up in a more-or-less multicultural society and have had access to so much more information about the rest of the world.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:40, Reply)

Makes sense. I also suspect that a lot of the elderly read the Daily Mail which must be a contributory factor.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:45, Reply)