Nigel Farage sagt, er habe „nie jemanden direkt rassistisch beleidigt“

It’s bizarre how doggedly he sticks to the maga technique of ’never admitting you’ve made a mistake‘. It would be the easiest thing in the world to say ‚You know what, I was an idiot back in school and I’m really sorry if I offended anyone.‘ But he won’t even say that.

Admitting a mistake is a sign of ‚weakness‘ to populists, and populist candidates always, always, always try to portray themselves as ’strong.‘

He could’ve picked a more believable lie, even some reform voters admit the guy’s a racist

„I’ve only ever indirectly racially abused anybody“. 

Can someone translate?

Just racially abused all foreigners at the same time , especially those of colour

Do we really need to debate whether Reform harbours racists among their ranks and foster divisions within society?

Let’s focus on their lack of real (fully costed) policies and the fact that they push foreign agendas (Russia; US Christians extremists) that go against UK interests and British values.

>When asked if he would apologise to the people claiming he had been racist towards them, Farage replied: „No, I’m not, because I don’t think I did anything that directly hurt anybody.“

That tells you everything you need to know about the wanker.

Happy to be racist indirectly, giving him enough wiggle room in his own mind that he can claim to not be racist and believe it.

Unsure why the photo is Farage channelling Ricky Bobby…

It’s like the bullies who never said anything but niceties to their victims, but encouraged their entourage to be evil.

I used to shit my pants when I was really little. I don’t do it now.

Of course he hasn’t. He makes every effort not to because it’s frigging illegal .

He knows exactly how to stay this side of the line.

His “well you wouldn’t” response to the interviewer saying he didn’t understand what he meant by this crap defence summed him up perfectly. Petulant grifting twat.

Of course he wasn’t a racist kid, leading all the weaker ones in bullying the isolated.
Of course he didn’t grow into a jingoistic populist adult who preys upon the minorities.

And last week I heard of a bear that didn’t shit in the woods.
So anything is possible no matter how improbable

the word „directly“ doing a lot of work in that sentence.

„I’ll be racist about someone behind their back but never to their face“

Since I went to the trouble of typing out a reply to u/narayan77 (interesting username btw) just before they deleted their post, I’m going to post it here because I am sick of people coming out with this crap.

>He stole sweets aged 10, he needs to answer for that. He probably made racist comments when he was at school. People develop, we can’t be judged by what we have said at school. 

What he did at school wasn’t a one off episode and it wasn’t „just“ the general use of the sort of racist terms that were prevalent at the time. He made _gross_ and targeted racist comments to people’s faces over a period of years. One of his teachers wrote at the time that he had fascist leanings.

If he had subsequently become a right-on liberal, and had spent his career campaigning for equality and inclusion, you might just about have a point about him having „developed“, as there would be some evidence that he had changed.

But in fact his whole career has been built around variations on the theme of nationalism and stirring up anti-foreigner sentiment, which many people would consider to be flirting with far right rhetoric _anyway_ even if we did not know about what he was like when younger. The only way he has „developed“ is by becoming less blatant about it, and becoming more clever in deploying dog whistles to avoid saying what he really thinks.

‚directly‘

„Directly“

He’s never been a racist „directly“ to to anyone.

Racism? Maybe. Indirectly? Possibly. He may have been a racist, but ALWAYS behind someone’s back, and NEVER in punching distance.