Islam isn’t a race. Martin Amis isn’t a racist. This video is fun:
[via The Ambrosini Critique]
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Wow. Very, very impressed with this woman. Thanks, PG.
You’re welcome, though that video’s been around for months, and lots of other people have linked to it, but it seemed relevant to the matter at hand. I don’t agree with everything Dr Sultan says, but she’s certainly not a racist either.
amis certainly does a very good impression of one then.
Alright then, I wrote to – and subsequently – interviewed Amis when ‘Money’ was published and given his legendary dislike of hacks, he couldn’t have been more pleasant. There are polite racists but in my experience I don’t think he was one.
But I am a Paki.
I was tempted for a microsecond to reply to “bob” with an account of my own very pleasant and interesting experience* of meeting Martin Amis (in a Radio 4 green room), but 1) it would have been name dropping, 2) Amis was carrying a tennis racket and dressed entirely in white at the time so he might have been on his way to a KKK meeting, 3) bob hadn’t said anything worth responding to.
*Via the media, I’ve heard and read some daft stuff from Amis; but I’ve met a lot of clever people in my life (including a few Nobelists in disciplines where a Nobel prize means something) and, in person, he is one of the cleverest.
I blew it on the name-dropping front there, didn’t I?
Never name-drop, as the Duke of Edinburgh once said to me.