It perhaps isn’t much of a surprise that Laurence Fox and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown failed to see eye-to-eye in a discussion on white privilege. But Mr S was still somewhat taken aback by the pair’s discussion on Jeremy Vine’s Channel 5 talk show this morning.
Alibhai-Brown started the discussion by telling Fox:
‘You should actually ask other people whether there is racism, not you. I know it’s very hard you to be such a privileged white man. It’s a burden, I can see it’s a burden. You hate it being a Fox.’
Fox then tried to find some common ground, telling Alibhai-Brown: ‘I don’t think we do disagree.
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