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.

I was responding to you after a previous poster reported the same issue upthread and you just took the piss out of her. So it isn’t just my experience and we are allowed to voice our unease despite you telling us to shut up.

They think people are just interchangeable little cogs, and that the ethnic replacement of their people is of no concern.

I wonder if they care about the ethnic replacement of Tibetans by Han Chinese? A deliberate government policy, by the way, but accelerated by the new-ish train line and economic opportunities?

Is it okay for the Tibetans to disappear as a people?

The fact a child was raped is HIDEOUS.
The child was raped by a bad man.
This time he may have been a bad man who was brown. Other times it may be a bad man who is white. Colour is irrelevant.
(99% of the time when a child is raped the common denominator is an XY chromosome and it is more rare that a woman sexually abuses a child. Are we suggesting all men are equally able to be molesters?.)
I also agree the taliban are hideous. Often Afghans over here are escaping because they don’t agree with that regime or they helped the British or US armies so are under threat. I am interested in knowing more about the ethnicity of abuse stats as according to Yvette Cooper they have only just started collating them and they didn’t exist earlier than 3 or 4 months ago.

No, Brexit was about who ruled Britain. Which was why Kent - bellwhether for the nation many times - voted to leave. The people of Kent had discovered that some aspects of their local government had been outsourced into France, something that did not appeal.
That poster is similar to the 'Labour isn't working' poster used for the election in 1979 btw.
There was a problem with free movement of labour which was driving down wages at the lower ends of society and causing problems for small businesses e.g. sole plumbers etc. The EU is not worker friendly but business friendly in that 'right of establishment' to import non-local labour at lower rates is championed over union rights. The EU benefits the middle classes who get some crumbs off the table with the right to go and live in another EU country (as long as they have a job) and in the import of cheap domestic labour e.g. nannies, housekeepers etc. and being able to study at a university outside one's own borders. It has little benefit for the working classes - who frequently protest in EU countries. Who forgets the referendum of the Greek people against the austerity and selling off of national assets that the EU (Germany, mainly, to whom Greece is now massively in debt) then enforced? Doesn't sound like a democratic utopia to me - actually, utopia, yes, since utopias are (see Moore and Plato) also the tyranny of the 'best' i.e. a self-appointed elite.

It’s really understandable that communities will not stand for this behaviour under any circumstances.

The government now needs to really take the lead. Where the hell is Starmer? Whilst he is sunning himself the country is boiling with rage and demanding action.

This issue was well flagged ten years ago by civil service and nothing has been done. Now here we are.

This is often how the Brits abroad behave too - except it’s called expat.

As opposed to lapping up the BBC? I suppose you believe them that this male murderer is actually a woman?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5w6rw33yro

She experienced sexism in the street from a Muslim man and then stated all Muslim men are against women expressing themselves and being independent. I pointed out how ridiculous that statement is, not her experience.

And the Spanish and French are rightly angry about it.

It won't mean much to you, no.

...and this is how it all started in Germany back in the Thirties. Vilify and scapegoat and blame a minority for all sicities ills then its easy to de- humanise them and treat them badly. We never learn . All I see is skinhead racist thugs with no more than 2 brain cells between them , being manipulated by popularist Farage and his right wing cronies. I for one ,as a old white ,working class male , will not stand for the rhetoric of the fascists which has no basis in fact . Illegal immigrants committing crimes ? Like the rest of the UK has NO criminals amongst its indigenous population ?! What a load of un- scientific bollocks !

Infiltrate? Good grief.

Asylum seekers are not the reason for the UK’s economic challenges.

The tax base is too narrow and the welfare state is too large versus what people are willing to pay for. There are hard choices to be made but some politicians hide behind immigration.

I think you misunderstood my post. I agree with you about smearing everyone as racist.

Making generalisations about all Muslim men is racist.

I’ve been called ‘P#%!’ by white men and white women, I don’t generalise about all white people because of it.

My apologies @Phobiaphobic, you’re right I did misunderstand. As you were!

You're out of date and out of your depth.

I think there are two issues here:

• The genuine concerns that as a small island we don't have the infrastructure to welcome such a high number of immigrants, especially illegal ones who come from countries with very different values, for example when it comes to how they relate to women and girls, and who have no interest in integrating in society. And I say that as an immigrant myself who has lived in the UK for 30 years but was born in an EU country.

• The other side of the coin is far right politicians and the right wing media pushing not too bright men and women to protest by whipping fury on social media and newspapers with dodgy ''facts'' about luxury hotels and generous benefits. They have their own agenda and this is not about just illegal immigration but about being hostile to anyone who is not white and is pure racism and xenophobia. It started with Brexit and continued over the years and this is absolute poison to any decent democracy. Very sad that people are falling for this propaganda and Farage's ''man of the people'' act.

It is very easy for some politicians to scapegoat certain groups (immigrants, disabled people, pensioners, single parents, benefit recipients) because they can divert the public rightful anger about the cost of living in this country from useless, wealthy politicians and their equally wealth and entitled mates who have bleeding the country dry for years and have starved our infrastructure of funding for decades. Oldest trick in the book and people are falling for it.

The colour of a rapist is totally irrelevant, we do need to consider however that it is totally normal for children, mainly little girls to be sold as young as ten years of age to grown men of forty years old in some countries - and some of these men come from exactly these countries. It is not difficult to see why we have a massive problem on our hands in Europe (not just here) and why people are up in arms.

In some countries child rape and molestion is entirely legal. That is a fact.

Muhammad is the most popular name as it is common to have it as your first name, but go by your second name e.g., Muhammad Adam will only ever be known as Adam.

What a non-response. @Spiderx is right, this is how fascism starts.

‘Everything I don’t like is literally a fascism’ level of discourse here …

How strange. Everyone I know who voted for Brexit did so on grounds of sovereignty - though the undercutting of wages by free movement of labour was an issue particularly for small business owners who found their prices for jobs undercut, and for people at the bottom of the employment pile who saw their wages cut, but that isn't racism that's economics.
You must know a lot of racists. I don't.

How do you define facism?

No I don’t believe them and already said I don’t read the BBC website. It’s evident that person is male and to pretend otherwise is silly but you haven’t explained which news source you consider better and more balanced.

I've travelled the world and lived with people of all races...my life experience tells me YOU are the one that's out of your depth !