YABVVU.
It is extremely hypocritical to try to stop the result of a democratic vote just because you don’t like it.
Many Mumsnet Remainer Extremists churn out the tired old tropes of Leavers being racists, old people, dead people (‘let’s have another referendum because so many Leave voters have died’; it is so offensive!) stupid and uneducated. They like to correct Leavers spelling mistakes on Leave forums. I once witnessed an enlightened’ Remainer dismiss Leavers as the great unwashed’; another said that the day after the referendum she had to restrain herself from `spitting on old people’ at the supermarket. All these people are doing is fuelling the rise of alt-right extremism and encouraging the cycle of elitism and alienation felt by so many who voted Leave.
It’s ironic that on one hand Remainer Extremists castigate racism but think ageism is acceptable! Can’t they see that the abuse they shower on Leavers is similar to the abuse that racists shower on other races? Not all Remainers but certainly the EU fanatics amongst their number, are guilty of terrible prejudice – a prejudice that comes from the same place as the racist – the hatred of `the other’.
All isms’ are to be castigated but to these EU fanatics some isms’ are perfectly acceptable, even encouraged as a sign of their superior moral thinking. Abuse thereby becomes a form of virtue-signalling. Why do the white working class feel alienated? Why did so many of them vote to leave the EU? Extreme Remainers don’t know because many of them don’t actually know many working class people socially – their cleaners and au pairs might enlighten them but are probably too scared to. I was astonished to read a socially-liberal upper-middle class man write on a FB post; `I have never understood why so many working class people voted to Leave’. Perhaps he needs to Leave Notting Hill for a bit to get a different perspective.
Insisting that Leavers are all wealthy elitists is simply not true. Yes, there are powerful businessmen in the Leave camp but there are just as many, probably more in the Remain camp. Richard Branson, George Soros, plus a huge percent of the establishment who want to keep the status quo – the status quo that benefits them. It is patronising to say that those with the least have the most to lose from Brexit. It suggests that you know better than them. But you don’t.
Mumsnet Remainers need to spend a bit of time outside their woke BBC echo chamber and discuss the Referendum calmly with some of these people to try to understand their views rather than demonising them on social media platforms. You may claim not to know any Leavers but this won’t be true: you do but they are simply too terrified to `come out’ with their opinions for fear of being ostracised and abused.
Screaming at those with a different viewpoint will not convince them to your ‘enlightened’ opinion but simply retrench them in theirs.
Extremist Remainers need to understand that the whole country is not on the woke BBC-land bus and try and understand the very justifiable grievances of communities that voted Leave. Viciously slagging off those with a different opinion will never heal our divided country. Listening to them with an open mind might.