Laurence Fox Defends His Right to an Opinion After His Controversial Comments | Good Morning Britain

Well, he has been called the definition of white privilege for his open

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s towards others. He is the ultimate anti-work hero. Here's actor and musician Laurence Fox, who found himself at the center of a media storm over his views on racism. He woke up nurse and vegan Andy Georgia Stella. Lawrence, I couldn't say 90% of what you've been saying. I am excited about this

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eousness where liberals have become completely intolerant, illiberal, they want us all. to lead their lives if you don't you have to be ashamed, abused, canceled etc. but I want to start with something true, I don't agree with you and it is this role that blew up on what you said about the movie 1970s 17. that you have a Sikh soldier in one of the scenes and you objected to this.

I'm going to repeat what he said here this is the interview, go institutionally racist Lawrence to include a historical reality in a movie. I think there were a lot of soldiers from all over the old Empire there were no fighting in World War I, so I guess it would have been less in Congress for me if he had gotten on the truck with a whole regiment of soldiers. Méndez is a storyteller, I mean, he tells the story, in his own way, he felt it was important to tell this story, as I say, it's something that happens.

The Sikhs fought with British forces, not just their own regiments. It is a historical fact. It's called institutionally racist to tell that story. It's extraordinary. No I don't think it's institutionally racist. What I'm saying is that probably more Sikhs would have been fewer. It feels like with just one Sikh soldier there you start to say, “Oh, all six soldiers served with the English?”, so I'm not a historian. I don't know, but it felt that way in Congress. Do you regret saying that? Because I would probably say that of all the things you've said in the last two weeks, I've been encouraging you up to that point, but I was like that for me.

I didn't really understand what you meant. I felt that it was a little aggressive, actually, looking for soldiers served many hundreds of thousands of Indians and, well, yes, I felt that it was. It's a shame that I said well, I mean, as you may have noticed, I said a lot of unfortunate things, but I think it's very important that one can express one's

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and have that opinion attacked or put down with bad words. ideas shot down with better ideas and things like that, but I also think that people shouldn't be afraid to say what they feel and I think that's what kind of world we want to live in, we want to live in a world where people are afraid. and every part of everything they say is broken down and made problematic or people should be allowed to express themselves and run the risk of offending other people with their opinions and I think probably if we want a more cohesive society we should live in a society in which people are free to express it you have been praised and destroyed legal measure.

Have you been surprised by the reaction to your appearance on question time? I definitely have a little bout of insomnia, hopefully temporary, yeah, are you worried about what you're doing? I said well you know his death threats and I have children so you have received death threats yes I have and it's not nice in the last week yes why do people want to kill you? And well, I don't think people are. Sure, I think when you don't have an argument, your anger starts to rise, doesn't it? And I keep thinking. I think I support what I said in question time 100%.

I think I said what I felt. and I still believe it, you said that Britain is the most tolerant lovely country, yes, and to a large extent that is true, although, as you have personally experienced, there are pockets of intolerance, unless beauty is very easy to throw the card of the racism. to everyone and it's really starting to get boring now hmm, yeah that's what people said then, you said you know saying that soft racing is boring, you weren't saying you were saying specifically, I think throwing out the card the race when in reality it does not exist. but that people care about racism is not a boring racial card, no, I think the most important thing is that we look for cases of racism when we all come together and then see them, but what we do not do is see colors everywhere in the people.

I think it's very divisive and in that case, particularly in question time, she was the one who mentioned skin color and I didn't, I had no interest in that, me and also my because she was worried about the coverage of Megan and if that was driven, it's free, she had freedom of expression, are you worried about the impact on your career as a magnitude? Because the acting world is wide awake in many ways, are you worried that we'll have to wait and see, but only one wants to work? A career where you have to have the right opinions because I don't relate will be improved if everyone has the exact same opinion as you.