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Support thread for minorities - election result

23 replies

flashbac · 13/12/2019 07:20

So that's it. A racist and his cronies are in charge and stronger. The media have lied and people have swallowed it.
People like me have seen and experienced the rise of racism since the Brexit result.
Fascism is on the rise and I'm genuinely thinking where I might need to run to for my own safety.
Think I'm being melodramatic? Think of Nazi Germany, that set up didn't happen in a day...
Fascism and loss of freedom creeps up on you until it's too late...
Anyone else feeling scared?

OP posts:
littlebillie · 13/12/2019 07:52
Biscuit
flashbac · 13/12/2019 18:59

Very intelligent reply there I see...

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Hefzi · 13/12/2019 19:12

Clearly, you don't count the Jewish minority, OP Hmm or you are spectacularly moronic in your allusion to Nazi Germany. Or both.

PurpleFrames · 13/12/2019 19:14

I feel the same OP, I 'belong' to one of the groups mentioned in those infamous articles. I just feel like it proves society really doesn't see us as of real value.

PawPawNoodle · 13/12/2019 19:31

Your reference to Nazi Germany in this context is disgusting. Would be quite happy for you to 'run away' (you won't).

flashbac · 13/12/2019 21:08

I see it didn't take long...
I'm actually sick and tired of reference to anti semitism in a way that suggests racism against Black and Muslim people doesn't matter as much. Boris has been explicitly racist against black and Muslim people but it doesn't seem to register for some reason.

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KenDodd · 13/12/2019 21:14

Is anybody on this thread denying that Boris Johnson is racist and misogynist? Why do you think Tommy Robinson supports him? Didn't the leader of the Klu Klux Klan in America also endorse him?

KenDodd · 13/12/2019 21:18

Apologise, it was Nigel Farage the KKK supported

Gilead · 13/12/2019 21:54

I’m with you op and polpot your dismissal of nazi Germany and your amusement at a genicidal maniac are equally grim.

Gilead · 13/12/2019 21:54

Genocidal

TheNameGames · 14/12/2019 05:28

Anyone else feeling scared?

No.

AllideasAndNoAction · 14/12/2019 05:56

So that's it. A racist and his cronies are in charge and stronger.

Fascism is on the rise and I'm genuinely thinking where I might need to run to for my own safety.

Think I'm being melodramatic? Think of Nazi Germany, that set up didn't happen in a day...

Fascism and loss of freedom creeps up on you until it's too late...
Anyone else feeling scared?

Well to be fair, if we'd woken up with Jeremy as PM with his nasty, aggressive anti-semite pals and a burgeoning UK Muslim population they stand firmly in support of, you could have been a Jew on here saying exactly the same things.

It's the UK. You'll be fine. It's not perfect but it's much less racist than most other places. People tend to have a sense of decency and tolerance on the whole and don't stand by and watch bullies kick the underdog.

Remember, the Nazis were actually called The Socialist German Workers Party.

Socialism doesn't always translate to everyone being cuddly and kind any more than Conservatism always translates to fascism and racism. Loss of freedom isn't only associated with fascists, it's associated with Marxism too. The erosion of freedom of speech is generally associated with political correctness and 'social justice' which are very much a left wing schools of thought.

Try not to get too hysterical about things.

AllideasAndNoAction · 14/12/2019 06:14

But if you really need to think of 'somewhere to run' just in case, for your own peace of mind, then if there is anywhere you can think of where you are not a visible minority, try there. I'll bet you a few quid there are far greater challenges to your safety, your human rights, your freedom of speech, freedom of expression and your right to peaceful protest in any of those places than in the UK.

ChaiNashta · 14/12/2019 06:25

It's already started...

Support thread for minorities - election result
AllideasAndNoAction · 14/12/2019 06:47

I'm actually sick and tired of reference to anti semitism in a way that suggests racism against Black and Muslim people doesn't matter as much.

Of course it matters as much. No-one has tried to say otherwise. But let's be clear, there is no internal, orchestrated campaign within the Tory Party against Islam that is serious enough to see people within the party expelled and warrant an offical enquiry.

The same cannot be said of Labour in regard to Israel and the Jews. I suggest as far left wing anti-semites you should be looking more closely towards the Momentum influence within the Labour party when making your comparisons with the Nazis.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 14/12/2019 07:05

I'm not a minority OP but I'm with you. I'm seeing some very disturbing things on social media right now.

It's easy for people who have never experienced racism to say "don't worry it will be fine." I HOPE it will be fine, but I don't like what I'm reading.

Gilead · 14/12/2019 07:20

Allideas, the reason there are no expulsions regarding islamophobia within the Conservative Party is because they don’t give a shit. Like Boris they will shrug their shoulders, mutter about context and continue to sow seeds.
As for your comment about the Nazis being a socialist party, do some research. They were not socialists.

MsMellivora · 14/12/2019 09:50

I’m a minority and I’m not especially more scared. Experienced racism as a child in the seventies as well.

YouJustDoYou · 14/12/2019 09:52

No experienced racism here Xmas Biscuit

formerbabe · 14/12/2019 09:58

How patronising. I'm from a Jewish background, my Dh is black...we both voted to leave the eu. Neither of us voted conservative but we are not unhappy with the election result.

Gilead · 14/12/2019 10:45

Now there is some cognitive dissonance!

flashbac · 14/12/2019 10:53

"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood. He was one of them"
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Turkish proverb

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TheNameGames · 14/12/2019 11:01

“You can’t see the wood for the trees”.

Another proverb

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