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A couple of lads in my year had slightly darker skin than the rest of us pasty Belfast kids and suffered (and that's definitely the right choice of word) the same sort of 'othering' - nicknames that we won't even type these days. Oddly for NI, we did actually have a couple of Black kids in the school, who got no racial bullying (as far as I knew, and I was relatively friendly with one of them).
In this case, I'm guessing it's today's case of online bigoted pricks jumping on a 'woke' celebrity, but I'm not on Twitter and haven't seen it.
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Any of you ladies and chaps following the twitter pile on over Gary Lineker mentioning that he was bullied for having "darkish skin"?
I'm trying to get my head around the public response to it. I've got pretty vivid memories of receiving a fair amount of racist abuse for having "darkish skin" as an english kid in the 90s. I won't repeat the kind of things that were said to me but I'm trying to understand why everybody is mocking him for somehow claiming that he's a victim of racism when that isn't what he said afaik.
In my own experience, people used racist slurs towards me despite me not being of those races. Isn't that the point he was trying to make? For me its just a reflection on how normalised and widespread some racist terms were back then.