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Multiple cases of racist incidents reported after Brexit.
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Slackbladder
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Even if some Brexiters are'nt racists and bigots they sided with those that are (seriously would a racist vote Remain?). And so they are corrupted by association.
Also this proves that the murder of the MP Jo Cox was not some weird, random freak event buy a "lunatic" but the logical conclusion of the hate and bigotry that is rampant in England right now. I am ashamed of being white. I am ashamed of being English. And I am sure worse is to come.
Also this proves that the murder of the MP Jo Cox was not some weird, random freak event buy a "lunatic" but the logical conclusion of the hate and bigotry that is rampant in England right now. I am ashamed of being white. I am ashamed of being English. And I am sure worse is to come.
WrenchNinja
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Stupid, racist, or both. Quite impressive.
I am sad myself because it just feels now i live in a country where there are alot of people who are just hardened racists. Once upon a time i would have regretted leaving but now i cannot wait to get my teaching experience and bugger off from here
Meanwhile I'm sitting in a Wetherspoons in South London with the most diverse group of customers you'll ever see in a pub having a nice Sunday drink. These scumbags are not representative of our nation, they are just the cancer that needs to be cut out.
This shit is fucked up but its to be expected, we (Caribbeans) dealt with the same shit for decades. When the Eastern Europeans started taking all the construction jobs (due to their work ethic and skill) some people got even more salty. The ironic thing being most of those salty don't want to work and just scrounge benefits.
Stay safe UK/EU GAF.
This shit is fucked up but its to be expected, we (Caribbeans) dealt with the same shit for decades. When the Eastern Europeans started taking all the construction jobs (due to their work ethic and skill) some people got even more salty. The ironic thing being most of those salty don't want to work and just scrounge benefits.
Stay safe UK/EU GAF.
I thought disrupting queues was just about the most un-British thing you could do. That man is comitting sacrilege and should have his citizenship revoked.
ferrasvansen
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This is so very sad, a country that says it leads the way in democracy and freedom, laughable now. It's a country torn asunder by racist undertones, English superiority complex and stupidity. Slowly but surly turning itself into a replica of very early Nazi Germany, it's heartbreaking and after I showed my elderly mum what is happening she was in tears.
I live in Sheffield, a city with two universities and a diverse range of nationalities and ethnicities among the student and non-student populations alike. Since the vote, I've heard so many stories from minority friends and friends of friends of the hostility, slurs and hatred they've encountered. It breaks my heart. I thought my city was better than this, but it really isn't.
And that theme is repeated across the country.
Not every Leave voter is racist. But many are. The rest have merely enabled them, however unintentionally.
And that theme is repeated across the country.
Not every Leave voter is racist. But many are. The rest have merely enabled them, however unintentionally.
Saw this in my feed: Polish father and son was beaten and left lying on the streets (blood warning):
https://twitter.com/b0redinbucks/status/746835825703391233
https://twitter.com/b0redinbucks/status/746838698445185024
https://twitter.com/b0redinbucks/status/746847561504391168
https://twitter.com/b0redinbucks/status/746835825703391233
https://twitter.com/b0redinbucks/status/746838698445185024
https://twitter.com/b0redinbucks/status/746847561504391168
They'll blame "the foreigners" of course.
I'm afraid it will not be the last, stay safe UKGaf
Vigilant Walrus
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A few things;
1) It concerns me that a few cases like this is enough for you to have a collective judgment about the British people as a whole being less or more smart than America.
Are these stories really a fair indicator to make a judgment on the entire British people?
2) Just because Britain fought on the right side in WW2 doesn't mean that it doesn't have racism or that it ever stopped having racism. Britain has been a colonial power up until very recently, and for that, a part of its population suffers from nationalistic grandiose power trips. Think about how recently Apartheid was.
There has always been a conservative underbelly in UK, and it has for a long time been the top EU country that mirrors America in its style of conservatism. Le Penn, Golden Dawn, DKP, Danish Folk Party, Jobbik and other far right parties, doesn't have the power, that conservatism has had in Britain for a long time.
3) This is not Britain in new clothes. This is what happens when for more than two decades, the only time the word muslim is mentioned in media, it is in the same sentence as terror, sharia, murder, rape, radical, fundamentalist, suicide bomber, death, and other ill words, that has created a very, very strong and fearful connotation with the word muslim and islam.
In post-recession periods, times get tougher for people and they become more conservative. Uncertainty, anxiety and fear leads to them becoming conservative, and the number one that everyone always goes to is blaming the immigrants. It has been like that for more than two thousand years. It's absolutely classic that migrated communities and people are the first to feel the vengeance of a people.
There is little productivity or sense of justice or fixing things in getting angry at banks or hedge funds in America, so might as well blame these immigrants and their incompatible way of life. They are only here to mooch of our welfare, but won't learn the language, kick em out!
So there is nothing here that is surprising. Sociologists predicted that this would happen, because this always happens in economic downturns. It's like clockwork in how predictable human anger manifest itself.
You say this like this is a new phenomenon, but Britain and other EU countries have been at the throats of immigrants of eastern european descend for decades. Europes "mexicans" are polish people. Those are the ones who get accused of "stealing our jabws" because they do a lot of the trade jobs- plumming, painting, roofing, electricity, building and so on. Off the grid, for a lower price.
Blue color workers then feel that they are not being taken seriously when the response to their frustration is "globalization, what can ye do?" and thats when they go down the chicken hole and become full blown racist and actively think they can turn back the clock by throwing them all out.
Puppet Shadow
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I love this post.
I hope the US Democrats finds a way to use the Brexit result in their ad campaign.
Heckler456
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In what way did the Remain campaign embolden this type of behavior?
Voting "leave" was a clear vote against immigration. Do I need to link to that word bubble thing again, or that ad with the stream of immigrants?
Yup. It's a strategy that feeds itself.
1. Make misinformed ignorant decision based on hate.
2. When decision ends badly, blame more foreigners and demand more extreme solutions to deal with foreigners.
Then just repeat over and over.
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Heckler456
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How do you even combat this kind of stuff; these kinds of people with this kind of thought process? Well, except for an extraordinarily cataclysmic event like a war.
Bay Maximus
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Damn. But GAF told me that only America was the racist.
Seriously, this is extremely sad. It goes to show that there isn't some inevitable march toward a more progressive society, every generation has to fight for and protect our achievements otherwise stuff like this (and Trump) happens.
Seriously, this is extremely sad. It goes to show that there isn't some inevitable march toward a more progressive society, every generation has to fight for and protect our achievements otherwise stuff like this (and Trump) happens.
Oh my, account suicide?
TestOfTide
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Fear is the only language they know, so the only way to deal with them (them being the racists, not all leave voters) is to make them fear for the consequences of their actions and words more than they fear the "other".
I think in large part its just an issue of time. Sad to say it but you just have to wait for the ignorant, xenophobic racist folks to die, I know plenty of people, my parents included who hold these kinds beliefs and attitudes and there is just no reaching them. The world is a vast and complicated place and its hard to understand and know what to do, but its easy to just blame it on the "other" and they've been doing that for like 30, 40, 50 years plus. You can't change those folks.
But can focus on getting the reachable people more involved and proactive and voting. I know plenty of people like 18-30 who are accepting and reasonable, they just don't vote or care.
Fuck the bastards that carried out this beating.
I am truly ashamed of my UK now. It should have the united taken off its name and it doesn't even deserve to be called Kingdom.
Instead of getting rid of immigrants, we should get rid of the benefit scrounging, NHS clogging bastards that really clog up our country.
WrenchNinja
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What are these legitimate concerns about immigration that you have? If it's foreigners are taking benefits, jobs, are secret terrorists, and destroying British culture we don't need to continue here.
Are the left beating up the right or something? I'm confused at this both sides are equal thing you're saying.
Yeah I am not surprised as the result of the vote just empowered the bigoted racist to come out of the woodwork.
Now while not all leave voter might be bigoted racist but they did allow this to happen by voting Leave, this is their mess.
*Face palm* That gaffer really needs to pick up a history book.
Now while not all leave voter might be bigoted racist but they did allow this to happen by voting Leave, this is their mess.
*Face palm* That gaffer really needs to pick up a history book.
Cybrwzrd
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Now this is purely anecdotal, but I am close friends with a Hong Konger, and her best friend (also HKer) who now lives in London with her husband, voted leave. From what my friend tells me, many British people of Chinese ancestry were pro Brexit. Even my Hong Konger friend thinks it is a good thing to keep out immigrants... mind boggling.
Burgess_101
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I worry for some of my family, my grandfather is from the West Indies and already had to deal with this shit the first time around when he first came over (and then when he had the audacity to marry a a white woman). My Dad's dad even rejected my older brother when he was first born because of my black grandfather, he since has apologised but of course voted leave.
I am from London and ever since moving up here to the Northamptonshire area it is a boiling pot of small minded people. My wife is German and I don't know if its safe to move her here any more.
I am from London and ever since moving up here to the Northamptonshire area it is a boiling pot of small minded people. My wife is German and I don't know if its safe to move her here any more.
It's Eastern Europeans and indians first but how long before the turn on black people.
If I don't like the vote, I can leave the country so I probably will, only way I would stay is if London broke away some how. Which is financially the crown jewel of England so would never happen.
If I don't like the vote, I can leave the country so I probably will, only way I would stay is if London broke away some how. Which is financially the crown jewel of England so would never happen.
Disgusting ... what is nearly is bad as are some of the attitudes I've seen in regard to this... "oh, it isn't about racism though" ... "oh, I think the racism angle is overblown" ... "oh, I am not a minority and haven't seen it, so it is clearly overblown/propaganda" please continue to stick your heads in the sand and ignore this as "not a big deal." Just the type of attitude needed for this vile behavior to continue.
I live in sheffield as well. I always used to laugh and mock at folks who said sheffield was messed up place. Little did i know...
Not surprised at all if they're from Hong Kong, a little surprised if they're Chinese Mainlanders.
You spend 5 minutes around Hong Kong people in London and you'll hear some incredible hatred of Mainlanders due to what's happened in HK over the last few years. So it's not unexpected for that to translate into a dislike for immigrants in their adopted home, however ironic that might be.
CharminUltra
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These people need to eat shit and die.
Disgusting.
I'd like to point out that this does not necessarily have anything to do with the referendum though. Racist violence is common and there was something similar in my (quiet) town last year but its never put in the spotlight like it is now. We need to look after each other and collectively stand up against violence all the time, not just when it fits our agenda
AcademicSaucer
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Sakura
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Make Britain British again actually means make England English again.
Fun times ahead.
Some of this confuses me.
Do the people doing this shit think leaving the EU means there won't be foreigners in the UK any more...?
SaviourMK2
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What the fuck is wrong with these people.
This Hyper Nationalist bullshit needs to stop.
This Hyper Nationalist bullshit needs to stop.
JonnyDBrit
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Unfortunately I do suspect there were many that genuinely believed this. Not helped of course that immigration was a centrepiece of the campaign in general, and politics in general tends towards hyperbole. So 'taking back control', 'curbing immigration', and the like can get interpreted to mean in general, not 'relative to our current position in Europe'.
Of course a lot of these idiots are just looking for an excuse anyway, but a lot of them probably do genuinely believe that this was a referendum about 'foreigners', and not the EU.
Edit: Man I used 'in general' too many times in that.
SenorArdilla
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Thanks for enabling the racists. No ragrets.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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It really doesn't matter if a one percent of leave voters were not being racist etc etc.. as ton of leave gaffers has tried to discuss. But it's very dishonest to ignore the FACTS that state otherwise. How many times do the charts and the polls and articles like these need to come out for some to finally realize that, yes... A large portion of the leave voters were in fact voting out of fear and because they are racist?
It. Is. The. Truth.
As an outsider, I feel bad because this might be what America will be like should Donald Trump win. Disgusting...
It. Is. The. Truth.
As an outsider, I feel bad because this might be what America will be like should Donald Trump win. Disgusting...
Sadly yes, it was a big part of the leave campaign only for them to turn round to say "Yeah about that we...kinda lied to you about that."
There's no different between the two.
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