Coco Kahn
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And that must be a kind of uncomfortable situation to be in where you're like, well, actually, I'm trying to enhance...
dialogue in my country but there's this kind of nefarious bigger actor who wants to utilise that for his own aims and it kind of made me think you must bear with me on this I was like wow everyone in Britain is a South Asian woman now when you're a South Asian woman and you ever want to talk about things that are related to gender
You often hold back because you're like, as soon as I start talking about this, white people will take this for their own racist ends and say, oh, these people are uncivilised.
And you're constantly in this bind all the time.
And I was like, wow, the decification of Britain has happened because now as Brits, it's like, well, if we critique...
The idea that comedy should be harder hitting, I agree with.
Journalism should be harder hitting.
Because we're in a time now where you can't just muck about, twiddle around the edges.
And anything that appears, and I'm just using this as a word because I can't think of a better one right now, but anything that appears centre right now does feel just totally irrelevant.
Like it really does.
It feels weak.
You know, everything from, you know,
The institutions that are meant to uphold international law, I mean, they seem so lacklustre and almost pathetic, feeble, you know what I mean?
And so, yeah, I mean, to make a real impact.
This is a slight tangent, but stick with me, right?
Okay, so now this is going to be uncomfortable because I'm going to say a thing, which is a sweeping generalisation and you're going to correct me.