YOU might have noticed that the Morning Star, unlike most other papers, has not referred to South Africa’s Mbongeni Mbonambi’s alleged slur against England’s Tom Curry as racist. There are a few reasons for this.

Unlike the N-word (or the countless other derogatory terms for non-white people), calling someone a “white c**t” is not based on hundreds of years of domination, oppression or an ideology based on racial hierarchy — in which rich, white, straight, cis-gendered western European men sit atop.

It is my understanding that the whole idea of race and racial hierarchy came about during the 16^th, 17^th and 18^th centuries during the transatlantic slave trade.