AIBU to stop therapy after learning my therapist’s husband is Reform?

Not everyone is as biased as you- thank goodness.

I was merely describing a small and pleasant scene. Which is I believe more typical of the UK than the hatefest stirred up by Faridge.

She described both men's attire, for obvious reasons.

Yes I was way off there, millions.

There are nations in Europe that actually track the data per capita... The results are atrocious.

You'd have had a fit if the Pakistani man said he voted Reform. Not sure of the relevance of the white man's attire either.

Very true! Millions in fact. It is easy to forget that, especially on MN at times.

Even Farage didn’t claim that. He said the data showed Afghan nationals were convicted at 22 times the rate of British nationals.

Sky analysed the same data and found it’s more like 3-4 times. Which sounds shocking until you remember that most dales and sexual assaults are committed by perpetrators known to the victim and a vast number go unreported for that reason. Who is more likely to be reported? A stranger. Who is more likely to be convicted? A stranger.

And this is why people are suspicious of Farage and his acolytes. He lies, making an already worrying thing worse and without context, and they parrot. I can see what he has to gain 💰 but those who spread his lies?

https://news.sky.com/story/fact-checking-farage-are-foreigners-more-likely-than-britons-to-commit-sexual-offences-13407029

BTW Bit odd to claim the government tried to hide it when the data was released under a government scheme - FOI - which allows them to prevent release on several grounds.

@MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack I've just observed a tiny interaction on public transport. An older white British man in shorts and summer top and a man of a similar age in traditional Pakistani (?) clothing. They were nodding and smiling and offering each other the one seat. Tens of thousands of people do not buy into Reform's hateful nonsense, Thankfully.

I don't think it's even about Reform being bad or not, it's about having a therapist who potentially supports, or at least condones, a world view you are completely opposed to.

It's less like using a cashier who votes Reform and more like going to the doctor as an unmarried woman to get birth control or a termination and finding out that doctor is married to the local Catholic priest. Some people would be fine with this, many would not.

You have proof of this?

Yet you are on every thread about Reform. I'm amazed your superior attitude wants to be in the same posting space. You're no better than anyone else love.

Bet they would cancel you if they knew.
Trust

Much more easily since realising that I don't actually need to waste any of my time or energy on racists and xenophobes, thanks.

My husband is a lefties and I vote Reform. We get on fine because we accept each others point of view. I'm also a therapist of 33 years and have seen many left leaning clients but I wouldn't dream of cancelling them.

Absolutely this.

The government has the data, but doesn’t release it.

Is that the same hissing noises to Jews that pro Palestinians make?

I am pretty sure that finding was found to be flawed and the source was not from FOIs by the Times, but a series of FOIs by an individual who then extrapolated the 22% figure. I can't remember his name, but he has an agenda.

Only Hindus?
What about the Sikhs,Muslims and atheist brown people?
Don't they have educational drive and work hard?
Wait didn't Farage like making gas hissing noise to jews and
he subjected black and ethnic minority students to racist abuse, including telling them to "go back to Africa" or "go back home.

If that isn't HATING brown people kindly explain what is?

Why do they have to "tackle" bias and discrimination? You mean they have to treat all their clients equally. This is getting even more bizarre.

I’m not the one who pulled pp up on the typo so quite why you’re chasing me down to argue about it I have no idea.

Standard spell check isn’t particularly helpful for users with dyslexia, who often spell words phonetically. If a misspelling is too far from a standard word it won’t be recognised so the correct spelling won’t be offered. It’s also really poor at catching ‘real word’ errors, which is very often a feature of dyslexia, involving transposing letters - for example typing ‘form’ when they mean ‘from’ - pretty much what this poster has done here. It’s not good on picking up correctly spelled words in the wrong context either - such as ‘there’ and ‘their’.

Do you know any people of Middle Eastern origin in real life or do you get all your information from rage bait social media?

I was an adult living in London during the IRA mainland bombing campaign. All the IRA were Irish but they were a tiny percentage of the Irish population as a whole. I was never prejudiced against Irish people. I have known people from msny ethnicities and religions as friends, colleagues or in any number of situations. I have not formed prejudices on the basis of ethnicity.

It's not about tarring everyone with the same brush but it it a fact that Afghans are 22% more likely to commit sex crimes than those UK born. The government tries to hide this. The Times found this out with FOI after many requests.