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I was on a full bus sitting next to a small group of people, a very fat blond man, a man drinking beer with his feet on the seat and a woman. As I realised they were Eastern European, I came to resent them for drinking beer on a sunday morning, taking up too many seats and putting their feet up on the seats. I know my intolerance of them was based on their being part of the new "flood" of Eastern European migrants...
I doubt I would have loved their behaviour whoever they were, but it was framed in my mind as particularly disgusting and intolerable because of who I perceived them to be.
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NBAll diary entries are based on my own perception of a situation or event. They are subjective reflections and often written well after the fact. Other people I mention will have their own version of the events I describe and might disagree with their portrayal. This project is not about libelling people or stigmatising them but about recording my own perceptions of racism as a person sensitized to racism, both as a victim of racism and as a racist.
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