In the US, the debate about race, especially, is extremely polarised. Neither side is listening to the other and the things they say - like this woman about curry - are increasingly absurd. They stoke the fires of division (not a very good expression, sorry) for their own political ends.
Some people in the UK, because of their political beliefs, would like to see the same thing there, because they interpret everything as a conflict between oppressor (of some sort) and oppressed (of a corresponding sort); at the other extreme are the right-wingers who make a big thing about wokeness, “PC gone mad”, etc as a smokescreen to deflect attention from the way the country is being run, the increasing inequality in all areas of life, and the excessive influence one public school in particular has on political and business life.