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I'll tell you who breeds racial intolerance; cis white male scum.

Honestly, I think there's a difference between making a racist joke and genuinely hating someone for their race or ethnicity, hell I'm one of the most accepting, open minded person you'll meet, I have a mixed race girlfriend, I'm pansexual and all that, and I'll still crack a 'racist joke' every once in a while. There's not a drop of venom behind it, they're just quips that make people laugh. In the same vein, I've been called a 'dirty fucking pikey' a few times and I couldn't help but find it funny just because I knew the person was only mucking about.

Now, anecdotal experience alert: I believe I have also come under racial prejudice, and without going into a long, boring story, I got screwed out of three months wages back when I worked at a building site, for being white.

Coming back to your question about racists in my family: My Dad is a weird case, he had a black girlfriend and he has nothing against individual non-Caucasian people but he does seem to hold up these bizarre stereotypes and he was mortified at the prospect of Bulgarians emigrating to the UK and 'stealing our jobs'. He also isn't too fond of gays, he says it's wrong to do a dude up the arse and that they all have AIDS, also something about keeping them out of the Churches. But yeah he's actually toned that down over a few years so...maybe he's getting better.

Racism tends to be perpetuated by groups, I think. Society is inherently racist, not as much as it was two hundred years ago, but it's still there, thinly veiled and sometimes it bubbles up to the surface, the good thing now is when a public figure is caught being racist there is a god awful media/ public outcry. Like that basketball bloke (don't know his name) who told his wife not to hang around the black basketball people. I honestly believe a lot of racism stems back to religion and though many religious institutions aren't racist now, they got the ball rolling and they're not doing enough to de-construct racism.