I understand being uncompelled by Meghan Markle's experiences with royals

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133. Because of your post bigtree,

I am watching the interview now. it is being streamed on cbs.com with all the same and many commercials I'd be watching if I had seen the broadcast version.

I hate commercials. But I like Meghan and Harry. At the end of the day, it's about racism. The racism is apparently as ingrained in the UK as it is here. The new part is the "institution" which i take to be the institution of the Crown, which considers its fate to be dependent on good press, including the tabloid press, which is apparently still manifesting the racist attitudes of the 20th century. We don't even have to mention misogyny but of course it is an element.

all the headlines i'm seeing today seem to be that the royal family is very upset about the interview, and my first thought about that is the same thought I have now having seen it: they're comfortable with racism, but not with being called out for it. so fuck them. They had a golden opportunity to move the world in the right direction and decided against it.

All they had to do was publicly deny false stories and defend Harry and his wife. That's all they had to do.