If there was a club from a part of London that was thought of as predominantly Black, and the mainly white fanbase of that club decided to call themselves the N-words, or the N-word army, and that led to opposing fans chanting racist hate songs based around the N-word back at them, it would be stopped and the club shut down immediately. So by calling the film The Y-Word, we were saying maybe the hate words for Jews – and Yid is one, daubed as it was across the East End by Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts in fascist marches before the Second World War – need to be considered as equally unmentionable
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