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One third of Britons view Johnson’s burqa comments as racist: Poll
 [PRESSTV] A new poll shows that more than a third of people in Britain view comments by former foreign minister Boris Johnson on burqa, a full-body dress for Muslim women, as racist. The other two thirds think it's pretty witty. According to the results of the survey by Sky News, six out of ten people said it was "not" racist to compare Muslim women wearing the Islamic veils to “bank robbers” and “letter boxes ” as Johnson had designated, while just 33 percent of the respondents thought it was racist. That'd be the Moslem part of the respondents? The poll also suggested that 26 percent of Britons were against a ban on burqas, while around 60 percent supported such a ban by the government. Having grown up there, 60 percent of the respondents know what Brits look like. They might have teeth like Austin Powers, but they don't look like letter boxes. The poll was conducted after Johnson made the comparisons in an article for The Daily Telegraph newspaper on Monday. It revealed that Britons remain split as to whether Johnson should apologize for his remarks - 45 percent think he should do so, while the majority, some 48 percent, think he should not. We can make jokes about Brits. They're white oppressors. Only the ones who've been absorbed by an invasive Posted by: Fred 2018-08-10 |
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