I came across this in the Daily Mail the other day:
Bouchra Benaissa’s unusual colouring is typical of the Berber people who dwell in the area where her family have lived for generations.
It’s hard to understand how something can be both unusual and typical unless the type itself is unusual. So blond, light-skinned types must be unusual. But as a blond, light-skinned person of many years standing myself, I’m struggling to see what’s unusual about it.
Oh, hang on: it’s because they’re from Africa. See, it’s unusual for Africans to have blond hair and light skin, because we know that Africans have dark hair and dark skin, right, just as it would be unusual for Europeans to have dark hair and dark skin.
How delightful. What next? Black boy in ‘really European’ shocker?
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