'In these tolerant days, the one underprivileged group that it's OK to
find intolerable is the white working class. In our multicultural
society, they're the unlucky ones deemed to be without a culture. Last
year, for example, the editor of Eastern Eye went on television to
condemn Channel 4 for allowing 'illiterate chavs' on to Celebrity Big
Brother. Eyelids remained unbatted. Trevor Phillips was not called
upon to issue a statement. The Sky News presenter to whom this comment
was made simply nodded his head in silent agreement.
But it wasn't always open season on proletarian whites...'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/02/britishidentity.gu...iancolu
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