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SBT

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What I like about Farage is that he tells it like it is and doesn’t speak like a normal politician, so when he’s asked if he was ever racist at school he can give them a real straight talking answer like “have I ever been part of an extremist organisation or engaged in direct, unpleasant, personal abuse, no”
 

chiefdave

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Erm, me and Farage are about the same age. This wasn't stuff he was saying when he was ten, it was in his late teens. So closer to forty years ago. Mid to late 1980s.

And yes, things were different then, but we didn't go around singing Hitler was right or telling Jewish kids that there weren't enough of them gassed.
I would have been at school mid to late 80s and we def knew about racism and what was and wasn't acceptable then. There was certainly more casual racism from the older generation but I don't think Farage is old enough to have that excuse.
 

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