Munira Mirza on Multiculturalism, "Institutional Racism", "White Privilege" and Diversity

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Munira Mirza, former Deputy Mayor of London for Education and Culture, discusses multiculturalism, identity politics, the myths of institutional racism and white privilege, racial disparities, offence culture, Brexit, liberalism, the European Union, polarisation, and a lot more with the guys at TRIGGERnometry. Check out Munira's interview with the BBC: https://youtu.be/o8IXWuXXEZs Read the AllInBritain blog: https://allinbritain.org/ Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia,
0:05.6	Cervesa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out.
0:08.6	In the Penlyown and bro Alithia since 1906.
0:15.0	100% authentic.
0:17.3	But not all Spanish beers are what they seem.
0:19.8	A bit like me.
0:21.1	I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Francis Foster I'm
0:39.7	Constantine Kissin and this is a show for you if you're bored of people arguing on the internet
0:44.8	over subjects they know nothing about. At trigonometry we don't pretend to be
0:49.2	the experts we ask the experts. Our fantastic expert guest this week is the former deputy mayor of London for education and culture who now works on the arts.
0:58.0	Meera Meza, welcome to Trigonometry.
1:00.0	Hi, thank you. It's so good to have you here.
1:06.7	Thank you so much for coming on.
1:08.2	We met at the Battle of Ideas and we'll get into talking about some of the stuff you were talking
1:11.6	there, but before we get into the
1:12.8	show itself tell us a little bit about who you are how are you where you are what's
1:16.8	been your story through life and how if there's maybe something that's influenced
1:20.5	the beliefs and views you now have tell us a little bit about that as well.
1:23.2	Okay well first of all thanks for having me on I grew up in a town called Oldham in the
1:30.0	northwest of England splendid areaendid Area. And my parents are immigrants from Pakistan or they came over from Pakistan and I guess it was a fairly ordinary upbringing I went to a comprehensive school and in many ways
1:48.7	my family is an immigrant success story we went to university I was very lucky I got to Oxford I was quite an
1:54.2	academic student and I think when I was at Oxford and then since I became
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