It's interesting to see that the friends of the person who racially harassed me at Bristol are posting on social media about white privilege & islamophobia.

Revolution starts with one's own people - I wonder if they took the time to educate their friend on her own bigotry

You can't choose your family but you can choose your friends.

If you're friends with racists and bigots, your own friendship and complacency towards their beliefs gives them justification to continue holding their toxic opinions - they aren't facing any personal consequences.

Women, BAME, LGBT+ & disabled people are constantly loosing friends or networks because they want to have their humanity respected.

For you to choose friendship over solidarity is another way you *too* are bigoted because you're using the system for your advantage.

As much as we tweet & share Instagram posts, strangers can more easily look over what we're saying. We are more likely to change someone's opinion if we can challenge those who respect us. We can get to the root of the bigotry, provide an explanation, give them food for throught.

So for you to go around with the odd progressive post while you have a friend that goes around blasting racist opinions and provoking a woman of colour, who happens to be the only BAME Ph.D. student sometimes, is nothing but a self-serving act.

Go check on your friend first.