Irish Examiner View: First step in tackling racism is to listen

There are common themes that emerge in public debate when considering racial abuse suffered by people here.

One of the more ill-considered is that what the abusedclaim is abuse, only amounts to fun. “Don’t take yourself so seriously”, “learn to take a joke”, “we’ve all been teased at some point or another.” This noise is amplified when spoken from behind a screen, on anonymous social media accounts.