.... Most people really do mean well. I imagine there are people at dinner parties all over Britain saying stupid things about Muslims (or Jews), revealing their unfamiliarity. But hatred? No. I don't think there's a lot of hatred. It's there, of course, but it's not in the average person's character or expressed at the average person's dinner table.
The place to seek and fight against hatred is in fringe groups, on political platforms, in dangerous local activism, in voters for the BNP. Dinner parties? Meh, that's just a lot of people saying anything they can think of, and feeling embarrassed in the morning. [23 Jan. Guardian Cif] Read more
