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Following the supposed "racism" towards Shilpa Shetty on Big Brother, Channel 4 has been inundated with complaints again for its reality show "Shipwrecked", after one of the contestants admitted that they would like to see slavery come back to Britain. Again, it's racism, you understand.

The thing with this is that it's basically one crazy comment among a lot of innocuous stuff. The slavery comments are ridiculous - NO ONE in the world should have to live as a slave to someone else, whether they are of a difference race or not. The rest is simple conservative values regarding immigration and multiculturalism. There is nothing offensive about the belief that immigrants to this country should assimilate to our culture; that is what conservatives have always been saying. It's not racist. The slavery comments might be construed as racist; I am not going to defend or condone those words; they are wrong.

But look what else she said:

I don't like fat people, I don't really like really ugly people...

Why doesn't anyone care about this bit? Why are the racial parts all anyone cares about? Is this not discrimination, too; and is it not IDENTICAL in weight to the racism? In fact, is it not STRONGER than the racism, since she never at any point said that she "didn't like" foreigners? Why is racism consistently elevated above all other forms of discrimination by the media?