I realised that I haven't included recently some of the media racism that has been going on. It's usualy too constant, but here's one anyway...
A debate about migration and asylum on Radio 4 - it's actually unbelievable that some people imagine that most refugees are evil people bent on "ripping off the system" or "intent on crime"....
Sometimes, in "the interest of balance", I think the BBC simply puts together 2 polarised, extreme sides of a debate so you get to hear all over again, like you haven't heard it before what the far-right, ultra-conservative line is on immigration.
Given that nearly everyone's history seems to include migration at least in one part of their family (just look at the Queen, if you need an example) I don't understand why people try to dehumanise migrants. Why do they need to stop relating to them as human? When Frederick Forsyth heard Yasmin Alibi Brown, he of course started making excpetions for "people like her", "useful people"...
Get out of your small "safe" self-replicating millieu and start meeting real people - then you might realise that all people are, ipso facto, useful.