Racism in uk

I agree with you.

It feels like we've regressed 40 years in the blink of an eye.

What annoys me is how many grown adults are either too stupid to know when they're being lied too or so racist that they'll happily go along with the lie as long as it suits their hateful narrative.

All manufactured, IMO. The public are being played liked puppets for political gain.

It's Trump playbook 2.0 - rile up the great unwashed with lies then fool them into believing rich, white men will save the day.

But we all know who rich white men look after, don't we?

This!

Lots of countries plundered lots of countries. We were plundered by the Danes, Romans and French, we got over it. It's about time others let go of what Brits many years ago did. I have no axe to grind with the Italians for example. Ditto the Danes.

We have significant numbers of people living in this country from different cultures who don't get along. It never gets mentioned and the inference is that its always 'white working class knuckle draggers' who are behind the rise in racism. I was friendly with a girl from Eastern Europe for a time and the racism that came out of her mouth was unreal. It was worse than anything I've ever heard a native Brit say. Fell out with her in the end. I think a lot of the rise in xenophobic behaviour is not coming from Brits. We've always had a small racist tendency but are consistently top of country polls for being the most welcoming.

All these people talking about how immigrants "must learn the language" or they are totally unemployable... I wonder how you think our nursing homes and hospitals would function without immigrants doing the lowest paid jobs, cleaning, caring etc

They will be making up that school day on another day. A teaching day is not lost.

uk is ok in terms of racism, if you compare to eastern europe (i grew up there) where it is rife, as well as switzerland where i have the ‘pleasure’ of residing in atm. prob still better than the rest of europe. if you find it unsettling, dont try moving to other places in europe as it is MUCH worse.

Except that white flight is a proven phenomenon.

Because Britain plundered their countries and told them Britain is the best.

@nomas "That's rich, you run away from communities that have brown people and then complain their have ghettoised themselves. Why don't you stay and integrate with the cultures around you."

Couple of points here. Firstly, Muslims are every bit as unlikely to "integrate" as white British people. In fact, they're even less likely to "permit" their daughters to marry someone outside of their own religion. Secondly @Firtreefiona gave no indication that she was "running away" from brown people. If you live in a deprived area with a major influx of immigrants, you are the least able to run anywhere. You're probably living in social housing for a start, so you can't just sell up and go. And when she said that the ruling classes don't live in those areas, she's right. You can't argue with that.

You are proved wrong by the blue collar jobs that immigrants do.

Yes, I agree OP. Sadly I think we are seeing a big step backwards when it comes to racism (and, without wishing to derail the thread, misogyny). It's very depressing. But it does seem to be a global trend and when I look around I'm not sure I can think of another country where it's any better. But, nonetheless, important to acknowledge it and how depressing it is.

So if the UK is so HIDEOUSLY racist, why are people travelling so far to come here for asylum? Yes, we have a welfare system but other countries have better and more generous systems. Our climate is not exactly the same as the countries they have left.
Coming to "sock it to whitey?" I doubt it. "Coming to the colonial motherland" no.

Does look like it's true?
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/yorkshire-schools-closing-eid-week-33610880?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1773807074

If you cannot or refuse to speak the language you very clearly take yourself out of the job market 🙄

Lol - would anyone tell (or expect) Spaniards to integrate with ex pat British communities?

Someone upthread said that Brits in Spain who did not integrate or learn the language were despicable. Since no one appears to have taken issue with this, I assume that is also true of the communities in the UK who do not learn English or integrate.

So why are they off school then?

Screen grab from school letter:

There is loads of inclusivity and diversity in this country.

Go try holding a Mass in a public high profile place in a predominantly Muslim country. Then you'll see hate and division, probably extreme voice. Not just a bit of moaning on X.

I used to live and work in a ME country, all displays of Christianity were forbidden. Understandably so really but we didn't moan that weren't included or anything.

Agree that the comments under FB news stories can be utterly horrifying. Who are these people? Aren’t they at all concerned about airing their views to the wider public?

Because Eid is not a nationally-recognised public holiday?

Yep, and that crime won't be reported as Islamophobic crime, which obscures the true number of hate crimes against people who look Muslim.

You are not being too sensitive. Muslim myself and a single parent. I have a habit to read the news on Facebook ... If the news arcticle features a non white person, the comments are awful, enough to stop me from eating and sleeping.
For example a recent migrant boat that sank with children who drowned, comments were -

Christmas has come early
As tesco says, every little helps
This is the best news I've heard all day
This has made my day

Etc .. just the worst comments celebrating the death of these ppl. All these comments made by white English ppl

Not just that but Any news article featuring a non white, so even a missing child who is non white, the comments are atrocious, it gives you tears in your eyes to read them

I promise it's not. We're East London...

yeah, for everyone. Not just christians...