96yr-old Prince Philip is blissfully old. He has lived a long, rich, and fulfilling life ( akina Moi don’t even come close) - and may he live the rest of his racist days with the dignity and poise that he has denied others
His racism is actually quite priceless because it comes so naturally to him. He is not faking it. He is not trying to offend anyone. This is who he is - his racist, sexist, elitist, misogynistic, class-privileged and unhinged prejudices is a mobile museum of European bigotry on display.
BBC too try to water down the Prince’s astonishing utterances, that they’re 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”.
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Sample these:
“You are a woman, aren’t you?” (in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman).
“If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China).
“You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got pot belly” (to a Briton he met in Hungary).
“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands).
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor).
“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh).
“Still throwing spears?” (question put to an Aboriginal Australian during a visit).
“There’s a lot of your family in tonight” (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians).
“The Philippines must be half-empty as you’re all here running the NHS” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital).
In short, it’s very hard to hide your racist nature.