Hate how racist everything has become, and how quickly it’s happened.

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I was just looking at facebook, and a ‘Sad face’ newsmaker article came up. Practically all the comments mentioned boats, asylum seekers etc etc. Its really getting me down.

Travelled to the south west last weekend. On the way down no flags on bridges. On the way back, in some areas, every bridge.

Its scary how quickly it’s all happening.

Then there are also Labour proposals like the very worrying Islamophobia definition that proposed making it illegal to criticise Islam.

And before that it was single mothers who were deliberately getting pregnant to get council houses and destroying society at the same time.

There are at currently at least 1.2m immigrants on universal credit. We can start with them? Perhaps those convicted of crimes too?

I'm more interested in British people having free nursery places, lower house prices and jobs. That might help with the birth rate?

Probably pretty good evidence it wasn’t a hotel that local people were using, was likely to shut down and therefore the Home Office using it didn’t make the slightest difference to anything.

How is putting up national flags racist??

How is saying “Hang on, we have a problem here…” racist?

By instantly calling everyone racist, you’re actually going to make the problem worse. Are you seriously saying that people out protesting at hotels where men have been arrested for sexually assaulting girls are all BNP card-carrying, white van racists? So you’re not allowed to voice concerns about 000s of illegal men arriving in concentrated areas of the country and committing horrific crimes that seem to get brushed off as ‘cultural differences’?

Immigration is vital to our existence and we need new people coming to this country but we seem to be hobbled by this refusal to even discuss that there is a problem with some of the illegal immigrants who come here. All those ringing their hands about the bigotry, do you want the government to stop Stopping the Boats? Just let everyone in? Of course there are racist a-holes jumping on the bandwagon but you can’t just write off everyone saying “we don’t want this”.

None of you have a problem with being so repulsed by your national flag? Is it the flag or the assumed intention of those putting it up that causes you such conniptions? We could do with some national pride.

This post hits the nail on the head. Flying our flag is not racist and sod anyone who says it is.

They'll be the ones foaming at the mouth.

Why does “living in the country all your life” entitle you to a council house paid by others? Genuine question.

Why should the “white british people” get one? What have they done to get one? Or is your success criteria just being “white British”?

What's racist about not wanting thousands of fighting aged men we know nothing about arriving illegally in our country?

Does it? How? There are four people in my family, we’re all British, we speak three different languages.

You know if you actually watched proper news (Not GB news) rather than your Facebook algorithm which is pushing this bile at you, you might be less anxious.

No, we’re not. We’re generous to a fault.

There are obviously quite a number of people in this country who are unhappy with the way things are being managed. We’re stuck with the government for a five year period, so I guess folks are finding a different way of objecting.

I live rurally and there was a coastguard and helicopter gone to see a dingy that had appeared off the coast not the point but I’m surprised they came here also there’s the argument that the UK isn’t the first safe country they pass

It’s the algorithms … if people loiter on a racist post, the algorithm serves them up 10 more as they think that’s what will keep the person’s attention. Before they know it their entire feed’s about asylum seekers doing this and that … digital brainwashing

I would be proud of a nation that collectively condemned racism and showed compassion to those in need.

I have no issue with the flag per se. I'm disgusted by the attitudes of the people who are now flying it, though, and the flag is now sadly tainted by association. It has become a symbol of racism and hatred.

I would like to see some sort of campaign to claim it back.

I’m also hoping that it’s mainly it being summer, plus too much cheap alcohol, and cocaine apparently. But I’m not hopeful.

We lost a fantastic colleague a few months ago because he just doesn’t want to bring up 3 children who are not white in a country where the expression of racism is so normalised.

Anyone who wants more people deported should be delighted with this government, the numbers successfully deported are stratospheric compared to the previous shitshow.

Sounds weird I know. But I suppose if you live in a town you aren’t likely to try and book a room in the local hotel. Presumably some locals (staff etc) were aware but there was certainly no discussion of it amongst anyone I know or on local social media, until as I say, about 10 months later when it all became common knowledge.

xenophobia

If you think civil unrest is not orchestrated by the highest echelons of society then you know nothing of history, politics and manipulation.

What do you count as ‘proper news’? The BBC are no better than partisan tabloid journalists who are very selective about what they choose to report or promote. Algorithms are a problem for all sides - the left get their views reinforced and pushed to the extreme by them as much as the right.

I am a Lexiteer. Brexit was not about racism. Many of those who voted Lexit were appalled by the treatment of the Windrush immigrants - well, I was.

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Look at who funds the Lucy Connelly circus!

The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 for broadcast journalism.

The BBC may spend too much time seeking balance such that they sometimes invite unscientific fringe theorists on to programmes to make sure it is balanced but on the whole the BBC is great.