Perhaps the sarcasm doesn't travel well?

I'm saying growing a thicker skin is a bad idea but that's how British society was back then, that's how you dealt with things like abuse. You just took it.

But then nobody was unleashing dogs or water-cannons on black people in this country or making them sit at the back of the bus. The conditions minorities have gone through in the last century in the UK are in no way parallel with what happened or is happening in America or what happened elsewhere in the former Empire.

While racism certainly exists and continues to be a big problem, it's never been state sanctioned here.

Some of the posts that have been appearing seem to be people that don't understand this (such as when trying to evoke images of savage dogs in reply to a comment about Saturday night light entertainment)