Torchwood Is Making Me Cross. Perhaps Fandom Too; I Can't Tell. Help?

Torchwood's got some well-problematic stuff going on with race. From what I can gather from my utterly-disconnected-to-current-fandom-way-out-of-date-radar, some people are trying to deny this with the whole, "british racism is different from american racism," thing. Which it is, but not in any way that makes Torchwood less problematic about race.

( Fair warning; ramblings about racism in Torchwood and how I hope welshness doesn't get tied up in it, and fears about wider fandom, while trying to be at least vaguely objective and probably failing, follow. )

And I'm...really confused. Obviously.