Harry and Meghan - OP updated with Threadbanned Users 4/5/21

Nobody made a racist remark here and you know that yourself.

The ott comment was aimed at both of them, not one, so you might as well stop this ridiculous crusade.

Partly? Or mostly? There are racists in the world, some of the hate she gets must be racially motivated, but everything I've seen has been criticism of her as a person (right or wrongly).

Is there any non-white person who's gotten a lot of negative press that you don't attribute that to racism? Do think Kanye West is hated now because he's black?

Yeah, you keep contracting yourself with every post. Well done.

To dislike Meghan is not down to racism and it's unfair to suggest that it is. Give people more credit. If past posts are reread, I'll be surprised if there was anything mentioned about her mixed race background.

What I’ve come away with from this documentary is shock…shock that an institution like the royal family would allow one of their own’s spouses to be fed to the wolves. Looks like they actively engaged and colluded with the press in getting negative publicity on her, all to cover up some misdeeds of the heir to the throne perhaps?

Another major misstep here by the monarchy is how this is and will be perceived in commonwealth nations - the Royal Family are coming across as a failing institution following Queen Elizabeth’s death, unable to modernise. Camilla meeting and inviting Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan to her Christmas party - how vile. How disgusting what Jeremy said about Meghan.

Yes, it's probably a bit of everything : the fact that's she's an American, that she's black, that's she's an outsider and not a 'royal', that she's a woman....all of the above make her fair game for attack from the usual suspects.

It would be wrong to pin it solely on race. The right wing UK media crowd that are attacking her are intolerant of numerous people - they don't even particularly like white Europeans, never mind black Americans.

@Kauto

"No doubt the royal family are a horrible bunch, but she comes across as a right nasty piece of work"

That's it, in a nutshell.

What do the RF need the gutter press for?

I'd imagine they would be alot happier without them .

It is a case of wanting to be seen (and for people to see all this) through the prism of race. It is notable that it isn't stated that she is a target because she is American. She could easily have gone with the xenophobic Brits who hate a Johnny Foreigner marrying in to their Royal family angle. Lump in some misogyny for good measure. She could whip all Americans (the target audience for this dirge) into an anti-Brit frenzy. Their people, their royal family and their toxic press bullied one of their own back home, fed her to the wolves and then cut them off for good measure. It could work. We don’t have anything like that back home! (*Cough* National Enquirer *Cough*)

No, race was deliberately zeroed in on and selective bias was done to form a narrative i.e. pick the one or two blatant pieces from among literally thousands of critical, neutral or positive coverage pieces, proceed to make a mountain out of a molehill and draw it out for over six episodes. Too little butter spread over too much bread. Case in point. Predictably the Danny Baker tweet was talked about but there was deliberately no follow through. Viewers are meant to see the surface level blatant racism but not see the subsequent fall out, the overwhelming condemnation of Baker and his tweet which shows it was one racist condemned collectively and nationally who rightly suffered the consequences of his blatant racism and who saw his excuses dismissed. Yet if you query this narrative, question it, criticise it you still can't win. You're just engaged in unconscious bias. That's some Orwellian stuff right there i.e. I know nothing at all about you but since you criticise someone you've never met and have formed a judgement on them (which is subject to change) based on their own publicity, their own words and actions I know, deep down, that you are a racist. It is insulting but therein lies the draw of using the race card. Interestingly the charge of unconscious bias seems to only work one way. You have people of all races criticising the whiter than white Royal family. Criticism which varies from the very serious (Andrew) to the innocuous (who made who cry). Yet you never see white people scurrying to lambast other races and lump unconscious bias on them for siding with Meghan in thinking Kate made her cry or for thinking Andrew is a big stonking protected Pedo. This idea of everyone collectively free, if they so choose, to criticise anyone and do so with no preconceived bias or prejudice based purely on how well adapted (or not) your skin is from protecting you from a radiating Star. What a thought.

I see Meghan doubled down on the "I was suicidal but I wasn't allowed to get help" angle. So to expand on this Meghan says she was suicidal and since help was prohibited she could have killed herself. Telling someone with suicide ideation they won't be getting help could understandably trigger them to act on that ideation. Yet at the same time she was the scapegoat and press whipped via planted stories by those who prohibited her from getting help expressly to cover up their transgressions from being reported on. So she was an asset in terms of taking heat away from the Royals.......until such time as she killed herself. Make it make sense.