I spotted this piece in the Business Standard today by T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan (a multicultural name if ever I saw one), in which he makes the crazy assumption that the UK government is institutionally racist. He bases this largely on the fact that the British Direct Airside Transit rules require travellers from 47 different countries (of which 44 are "non-white") to obtain a visa even if they are only passing through the country.
It is interesting how the author doesn't even stop to think about any other possible reasons why this might be the case; for him, it is automatically "racism". I don't know much about this visa, but to just outright stamp this as racism without really knowing the details is outrageous.
The rest of the article suddenly moves from Britain's institutional racism to the fact that pretty much everyone ever is apparently racist.
Waste of bandwidth.
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