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So a woman caught on camera being vile and abusive and racist has been charged.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15933829

She may or may not be pissed, but she undoubtedly deserves to have the law come after her. I'd say what is more to the point is that she shouldn't be allowed to keep the toddler she is holding in her arms throughout the rant. You just know that child is going to grow up as a burden and a threat to society.

Just a thought though: what about the black woman that replies "if we don't come here, you guys don't want to work, we have to do the work for you (sic)"? She is absolutely delightful in comparison to the woman with the child, but isn't that response in itself racist? It isn't clear what she meant by "we" and "you", and perhaps she wasn't entirely certain herself, but she was definitely differentiating between different racial or cultural groups. You might argue that she was severely provoked, but do you think that she didn't believe, at least in part, what she said? And anyway, the law applies to act not thought.

I'm being a little glib. The black woman doesn't deserve to be punished; the white woman deserves to be... well, she deserves all the public humiliation that having 2 million people gawp at your stupidity on YouTube entails. But my point is that racism is pervasive and not the preserve of 'chav scum'. We all have a little of it in us. And the best way to combat it (as we should) is to acknowledge it every time we see it. Not pretend that some racism is OK.