Postal Letter

When people quote the Daily Mail, do you start wondering if they're racist?

It's a terribly prejudiced assumption to make, to be sure, but does anyone else find themselves doing it?

Public Comments

1. Its a very over used cliche on here, any one with right wing views is a "Daily Mail reader". If you believe that the Daily Mail is racist you've obviously never met a real racist.
2. Well, the Daily Mail has set it's stall out as being very right-wing, without edging into Nazi-ism. So I guess most people who read it for the newspapers political alignment are at least a tiny-bit racist!
3. Id be more alarmed if they quoted The Sun!
4. "Wondering"? It's pretty much a given. To be fair, most of them are the harmless (ish) sheep types who believe anything that's written in print and is ratified by somebody in a tie... Not at all the type of person associated with the BNP...
5. All the time, unfortuntately. But I don't think a lot of its readers actually realise how offensive the paper is to someone like me, albeit a second generation immingrant. How that newspaper has never been banned or at least fined I'll never know.
6. You have racism in the brain.
7. Reading the Daily Mail doesn't mean your a racist, it means you lean towards the right. Papers like the Daily Mail print stories that matter to working class people, they might mention issues that are non-pc but i think we need more of that. Liberalism is destroying this country and we need an opposing voice to balance things out.
8. I read the Daily Mail, The Times and The Star (just to add The Star is the best for the football)!! You can't pre-judge people on what they read, I personally never believe everything I read in any paper, if they said it was raining I would see check for myself!! Everyone is prejudiced about someone or something though that's just human nature it's how you treat people that matters.
9. As much as if the Guardian is quoted I think they are gay liberals - despite the fact that I read the Guardian & I'm not gay & not a liberal.
10. I don't think that's true as people will always find a quote to hold up their argument. Regardless where it's from
11. the Daily Mail has long history of being a reactionary right-wing paper.the grandfather of it's owner Lord Rothermere,was a big fan of the British Union of Fascists,leader Sir Oswald Mosley & his Blackshirted militia. now famous headlines have included 'hooray for the Blackshirts'. the Mail carries a lot of stories about pre-war British ruling class involvement with the Nazi's.that's why it's probably widely read by the toffs.
12. It's truer to say that while not everybody who bothers with the Mail is an out-and-out racist, a very high percentage of out-and-out racists prefer the Mail to proper newspapers.