Forget about a harmless remark - let’s deal with the racists who assault immigrants

FAR too much has been made of Senator Mary O’Rourke’s supposedly racist remarks.

The phrase that she used - “working like blacks” - would have been used as recently as a decade or two ago as a purely descriptive term for earnest endeavour.

It neither expressed nor incited racial hatred then and it does not do so now, even if times have changed.