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Baldric
You wrote:
"he is obviously an intelligent guy, yet his life seems to bounce between homophobic and racist events"
Wrong on both counts I'm afraid.
I'm of average intelligence (I once sat next to Stephen Fry at a dinner party...that alone told me that I'm thicker than a whale omelette).
But regarding racist/homophobic events in my own life? Almost never happens.
Actually - scratch the 'almost'...it simply doesn't happen. This may be because I live in a lefty liberal area and I work in a field (IT) where what you can do is valued so highly, that who you are becomes an irrelevance.
However, AB is useful to gauge people's opinions on matters of race and sexuality, because the people I hang out with are pretty much of the same mindset as me.
Proving how thick I am...I had to let Spellcheck tell me how to spell the word 'gauge'.
That's why Stephen Fry eventually swapped seats.