Of course the BNP are “racist” – everybody in the world is racist.
Racism is a prejudice, just as favouring your relatives is. The more things you have in common with someone, the more favourable you are going to be towards them. It’s a basic fact: ergo, everyone is racist.
Of course, stating that someone has – or lacks – characteristics purely on the basis of their skin colour, when there is no supporting evidence or experience suggesting it is quite wrong. But I am sure – given that there are two categories of “no” vote, and only one of “yes” – that the people who devised this question are not above playing with words so that there is some little definition not commensurate with this unequivalent one that will latch on to the BNP’s modus operandi.
If BNP are racist, then, so are the Conservatives, and so are UKIP, and all other political parties except, perhaps, Labour. But that would only be because they aren’t human.
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