Racist Threads

I’m not on here much atm, I’ve been busy following the trial of Hadush Kebatu when I’m not on shift. What’s been said? Sounds awful :(

As Magdalene Berns rightly said: I’d rather be rude than a fucking liar.

I had my a. Lint suspended for calling out direct racism. It’s an echo chamber in here.

This.

It's not just on political threads. It seeps in to the most unlikely places.

"Being kind" ended up in women almost losing our sex based rights. But apparently women's rights are transphobic.

I’m so sorry you have experienced this. I can’t say I’ve seen it but I don’t tend to look at the more political threads.

I know there is so much sad history between Britain and Ireland but I admire Irish culture and have several dear Irish friends. I wish our countries could be good friends in the future.

I do love that term! It really hits the spot for the type of haranguing you get from them. 🦭

MN is known as prosecco stormfront for a reason. Absolutely vile stuff on here sometimes.

Who is the ‘most vulnerable community’ you’re talking about here?

Yes, someone else just said that to me!

I like the 🕊 idea.

I've been off mumsnet for a while because of the racist and transphobic nonsense I keep reading on here. I'm not saying people aren't allowed to have their opinion, but the sheer nastiness and intolerance is unbearable. Whatever happened to just been kind, decent human beings?

This is definitely becoming a trend. I've come across many political ads for the Israeli government on YouTube and bafflingly, lots of recommended Facebook pages which when I probe closer, are run by 'media' companies in China.

I wouldn't even waste time engaging with them. There's no point.

I like🕊

I think it's becoming a problem in a lot of online forums.

The increase in racist or discriminatory threads and comments on UK sub-Reddits has been very noticeable recently.

A lot of the time you don't even have to read too far down for someone to start making discriminatory remarks, even if the original post has not got anything to do with the ethnicity of any particular person or group.

It's the times we live in I guess. Reform are doing very well in the opinion polls and a lot of people are feeling more emboldened in their comments as a result.

If I say I don't care about any of that but don't want people coming into the UK through unofficial channels - is that racist?

My view is I welcome anyone coming here who has applied and gone through the due process of checks.

I welcome people with skills and education that can be employed.
I welcome those who can work in the NHS or Care Homes with the necessary attitudes and command of English.

I do not believe the vast majority of those smuggled in are valid claimants for Asylum. I think most are economic migrants and should not be able to.just "break in".

If that makes me racist I'm OK with that.

My thought too. Life is more comfortable in an echo chamber.

This has been a successful widespread response to other disrespectful attacks to groups who don't have protected characteristics.

You are doing more good than you realise, believe it or not! I was hauled over the coals on another thread, for saying that due to my upbringing in the '70s, I felt uncomfortable referring to black people as "black", because back then it was a really rude term to use. I was reminded in no uncertain terms that it's 2025 now 😄 it did make me think and I realise that poster was right. I think that to a lot of people, racism means actual racial hatred and antagonism, rather than casual racism. A lot of people are well-meaning, but a bit ignorant! I do think it would be really good to hear from people from other ethnicities though, as they are the ones who have to live with the effects of racism and discrimination. What do they think? I have the privilege of working with people from all over the world and opinions vary!

I'll bite.

As a starting point I would say it is expressing hatred towards other people and/or discriminating against them based on the grounds of their colour, race, or ethnic or national origins.

@PhilippaGeorgiou , you're not wrong. I'm yet to meet one who wishes to have a conversation. I learnt the term sea-lioning in the last week. Apparently you're trolling if you want to understand their viewpoints 🤷🏾‍♀️.

Yes, definitely. if Netanyahu can purchase millions pounds of propaganda ads on YouTube, then any group can pay a few grand to human bots to post on Mumsnet.

I particularly enjoy the flag ones. Because OBVIOUSLY the flag wavers are simply supporting the Women's Rugby...despite the average current flag putter-upper clearly being the type of dickhead who hates the thought of women doing 'blokes' sports mate, get em in the kitchen'
They're just patriotic. Bollocks
It's pathetic and nasty and ignorant.

This.

Is it racist to be concerned about the affects mass immigration has on the economy and culture of the UK?

People have seen their quality of life go down, this has coincided with an increase in immigration. There has been an increase in GDP, but a decrease in GDP per capita.

There has been a lot of things coming out about rape and sexual abuse, that the authorities have ignored, in part out of fear of being labelled racist.

There are a lot of people who feel that the culture of the UK is changing for the worse, they want to hold on to what makes it a great place to live.

A lot of the people who voice their fears have been called racist, some of them are racist, most probably aren't. It doesn't help that there is a class element, working class areas are hit harder by the changes, because of the cheaper housing, working class jobs are affected more. The working class people who complain are then written off as ignorant, stupid, racist, uneducated etc by people who live in middle class areas, who have middle class jobs, who don't walk the same streets or see the same things.