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Expanded 'Accusations of Racism' section with five representative examples
== Accusations of Racism ==
== Accusations of Racism ==
Within minutes of his death being announced on [[Twitter]] Philip's detractors began re-cycling old accusations of racism, thereby cynically and most unfairly overlooking the Duke's deliberate use of irony and his very well-known sense of humor. His most notorious remark in this vein, made to a group of British exchange students living in China, was: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed," but his reactions to early Ethiopian art ("It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school lessons.") and traditional Nigerian dress ("You look like you’re ready for bed!") - the latter remark being made to, of all people, its president - provided his critics with plenty of additional ammunition, unfortunately. Similarly, his deducing (of a British tourist in Hungary) that "You can't have been here that long: you haven't got a pot belly" and, visiting Queensland's Aboriginal Cultural Park in 2002, his innocently framed "Do you still throw spears at each other?” provided, sadly, yet more grist to the mill of the present age's joyless, mindless, anti-racist left.
==References==
==References==
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