“Such things were unheard of 20 years ago. Nobody did these things because it was considered rude. Now it’s an “up yours” sort of response.”
From my personal experience that’s just not true.
I travel a lot and am always still a bit surprised
at the things people will say even in front of strangers as long as the strangers aren’t visibly different.
In my experience it was generally the case where that sort of racialist thing was not spoken in public. It doesn’t mean it didn’t exist, it just seems that these days it’s more public. I had never been a party to such s large thing as what went on in this instance. There were private conversations such as this but nothing lik as was the case here