How can multiculturalism both cause and cure racism?

In recent weeks there have been two prominent examples of what some people in Britain term ‘Islamophobia’. The first involved a woman on a London bus shouting to two identifiably Muslim women that they should ‘go back to their own country.’  She goes on to call them ‘Fucking Isis bitches’. The whole ugly scene was recorded by another passenger and widely trailed around the internet, subsequently leading to a woman’s arrest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfQryY7Jvy4

The second incident was also filmed on a passenger’s phone and took place on a London bus a few days later.  On this occasion a passenger levelled an equally expletive-laden rant at a man sitting opposite him, also inviting the man to ‘go back to your own country’. The fact that the man who experienced this verbal attack must have been talking in a different language clearly further aggravated his assailant, who continued with what the Daily Mail termed ‘a shocking Islamophobic rant’.

‘You’re talking in a different language but nobody knows what you’re saying.  Go back to Turkey if you talk that shit. Oh no you can’t because shit gets blown up in Turkey.  That’s why you’re here mate – free benefits and a walker. Well your walker is going to go flying when this bus stops mate.’ The walker is indeed then thrown off the bus and down the road by the thug in question.

Now there are many things to be said about both these ugly and deplorable cases.  But perhaps the most interesting is that in both cases the assailants were black. This is interesting because so much of our culture in recent years has depended on a multicultural model in which only people from an ‘ethnic minority’ can be victims and only people who would be identified on the census as ‘native white British’ are capable of being oppressive bigots.