Racist vigilantes on local FB page

The police say that they’ve spoken to the man (who is not from Afghanistan). He’s on holiday in the area with his family. He was in the park with his family. No crimes were identified.

Reporting is one thing. Focusing on nationality and ethnicity is quite another, and we all know what that thing is.

Have just read what the local councillor said about the incident on Facebook. He said that it was clear that the mother and aunt were obviously distressed and were right to report the incident. So sounds as though she did report it.

I don't really understand why people would not believe you. It is not the first time something like this has happened.

Do you think OP is making this up? I googled and found a statement from Andy Tree on FB. There were lots of comments from residents too.

I'm so confused by this, if it was basically just a foreign man in the park that she completely misrepresented how were random people on facebook managing to trace him? And then if it wasn't reported to the police till much later how did the police find him and question him? It's all baffling to me.

Pretty much, yes. At the very least she said it's OK/understandable for innocent brown people to get attacked by racist mobs, 'just in case'. It is truly appalling.

The idiocy is dumbfounding. Sadly, people will swallow anything if it confirms their shitty biases or they think it'll increase their platform (see Trump and cat-eating migrants).

Ah it's you. You are also all over the migrant threads claiming Afghans shouldn't be in the country. Dangermoo literally said 'better safe than sorry' on an article about an attack on an innocent refugee - then went onto say, 'im not advocating for violence' - not me sir, I'd never stir up racial hatred.

Can you say verbatim what she has said that is racist?

You are on all of these migrant threads being not so subtly racist. I'm sure MN is going to be devasted you're leaving, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Did @Dangermoo really say ‘attack anyone that looks brown, just in case’?

This. ^ Not even engaging to be honest.

Possibly so. Aldershot, another military town, has many Nepalese residents, who have associations with the Ghurkha regiment. They seem ok there but I assume it was their military connections that made it seem like a reasonable place to be.

I saw that on the news earlier, and I damn near pissed myself laughing.

Where the fuck did the MP think they'd rowed from to rock up off the coast of Yarmouth? Did he really think they'd paddled their canoe all the way across the North Sea?

Even my racist, Reform-voting, Jaywick-dwelling brother isn't that thick.

Absolutely this

I have lived in a multicultural city since 2001 and there are a lot of second and third generation Asians, one of the largestest Jewish populations outside London, lots of Eastern/central Europeans who settled here prior to the Berlin wall coming down and those who came and enriched our communities when we were part of the EU. All of us mostly rub along together and they are our neighbours/friends/colleagues and we have more in common than differences.

The dog whistle politics that people take as gospel is quite terrifying really- as a nation we are going backwards. In my career I have worked with many asylum seeking families and individuals, and the vast majority are dignified people who just want to be part of our society (ie work, learn the language if they do not speak English already and give their children the best start and education). Many are highly qualified yet not allowed to work here. The children are often under a lot of pressure educationally to do well, so extra clubs and tuition etc. Pre Brexit (if any idiot voting for it had bothered to research) there were very clear statistics showing most immigrants living here contributed more than they took from our economy. This is in contrast to all those pensioners who shipped out to Spain etc and are now moaning about not having the same privileges since we voted to leave the biggest free trade zone in the world.

Our infrastructure is crumbling, no council houses/councils have no money and the nhs is in crisis, but immigration has not been the cause of this. Also, high crime rates and poor policing is not down to immigrants. I am certain some are not law abiding but do the white bristish thugs/rapists/shoplifters etc get reported in the national right wing press with inflammatory language?