When Maya* started a new teaching job, she did not expect to be called the n-word as she walked down the corridor.
The bullying from her fellow teachers proved relentless. She was called a “curry lover” and believes she was hidden from meeting parents at one point due to her skin colour.
It was not just racism she faced there but also sexism. Male colleagues told her she would have to “bend over a desk to get a promotion” and had “blowjob lips”. Incidents like these happened “almost every day”, she says.
Eventually forced to leave her job, Maya signed a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) making her unable to speak about the abuse she suffered. As part of the conditions of her exit, she also received a significant payout, which she describes as “money to keep quiet”.
Without opening the article this feels super British. Like, talk about an inability to make proper insults, English bigots are some of the most unimaginative and idiotic people on the planet.
Chef, a British sitcom, is a masterclass in insults. John Cleese is an insulting savant. There are diamonds in that rough, but wit is a feature of brains, while bigotry and bullying is a feature of no brains.