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Old Posted Apr 14, 2021, 1:41 PM
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Personally I find the criticisms of Prince Phillips (or any of the Royals) as racist come across as a bit hackish. It's probably true, but kind of misses the point really. We're talking about people that are so comically out of touch and consider themselves above any semblance of the "common people" that it falls flat. Even above and beyond the surprisingly intact British class system. For example, some of my extremely out of touch older upper class British relatives have literally said things like "Council Housing was wonderful before the darkies took it over" and are abhorred that we are "too nice" to service workers here. Yet even this type of upper crust aren't considered close to being peers of the Royal Family!

If I had to do a critique I'd go that route. And also just make fun of him. Dude was looking like the Cryptkeeper for the last decade of his life no matter how many orphan children were harvested to somehow keep him alive.
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