I think it's as true as people want it to be. It isn't that the actions described in the story happened or not... perhaps they did, perhaps they didn't - my problem is with the mass generalisations which stem from it. I can subscribe to a world which is full of dickish people - of which this woman may be one. I can even subscribe to a world where this story is likely to happen more to one race than another. I can't subscribe to a world where the dickish actions of one person within a set of characteristics can be immediately applied to all people who share that characteristics.

The issue isn't with the veracity of the story, it is with the intent of the story. It offers relatively little solution to the racism problem, I'd argue it does the opposite whilst insisting that any argument to the contrary is itself inherently oppressive and racist. I have little time for such stories - they perpetually degrade and downplay the real severity of racism, particularly economic oppression and are usually written by middle class BIPOC writers (as in this case). They stoke racial division simply because it has become profitable to do so.

As I said in the article, people are entitled to write what they like - but they must also deal with the consequences of doing so. For a long time on this platform it's been popular (and profitable) to do a race-based Penny Dreadful and it's only now that audiences are waking up and differentiating those with something important to say about race relations and those people who are peddling nonsense with buzzwords. This piece is the latter.