To be so fed up amd disheartened with all the xenophobia

[Nohqters]

Honestly, I’m just feeling worn out and heartbroken lately. It seems like racism and xenophobia are becoming more and more mainstream again, wrapped up in the same tired scare stories, whether it’s splashed across a tabloid or coming straight out of Farage’s mouth. Then you see stupid threads on here about civil war trying to stir up more hate.

Even my own brother has started sounding like Tommy Robinson. Ten years ago, that would’ve been unthinkable. It’s like people have completely forgotten the lies we were sold during Brexit—by Farage, Tice and their crowd—and yet they’re still lapping up everything they say. No critical thought, just blind anger pointed in the wrong direction.
I’m so fed up with the endless nonsense about small boats, “white minorities,” and all the rest of it. It’s all designed to divide us, stoke hate, and distract from the real culprits—rubbish politicians, broken policies, and the ultra-wealthy hoarding resources while the rest of us struggle.

But instead of looking upwards, it’s always “blame Johnny Foreigner.” It’s exhausting, and frankly terrifying how quickly people fall for it.

Is anyone else feeling this? How are you managing conversations when even close family seem to be buying into this stuff? I’m trying to stay compassionate, but it’s getting harder to bite my tongue.

Oh I thought he would have to make an appearance...scrambles to find the bingo card.

You really think yourself something special don’t you? Bless your degenerate heart, you will learn

I'm reasonably sure they already know that.

They are

https://consensus.app/home/blog/are-smart-people-more-liberal/

A bit more here.

Remember the Somalian rapist, who the Liberal luvvies saved from being deported? He went onto rape - again. Not too bright, after all.

Have you looked at them?

I have. Immigrants make up a lower percentage in prisons than in the general population.
Which obviously, as I'm sure youre aware, means that statistically immigrants are LESS likely to commit crime.

You see, I think it’s 100% social media. But not that social media has caused the increase, just that social media has made the sentiment more visible.

I remember being blown away by the Brexit result. I was as blind as David Cameron. I genuinely had no idea that there were so many bitter, resentful, racist people in this country. I lived in my little multicultural London bubble.

I don’t think that people’s feelings have changed, just that we can see it more now. But it has been bubbling away for a long long time.

they always have a study ( which they never link) that backs their beliefs such as suddenly more intelligent. Ignoring or talking down to people could mean in 4 years they get exactly what they don’t want, be careful what you wish for etc , these people are my way or the highway , maybe if they listen they would understand or explain in a way to help change peoples views. Name calling just means you have lost the argument

We're getting to the point that anyone who thinks that machine-gunning small boats in the English Channel might be a tad excessive is "woke". There's a new right-wing nut-job party called Advance UK that claims to have 22,000 paid-up members — their principal selling point is that Farage is soft on immigrants. 🤪

they came here to work and improve their families situation, but have full respect for them

I find this one strange as most of people who came from eu countries were white so xenophobic but racist. You could argue why should someone from europe be able to come here and work freely whilst in eu and nit someone from africa or asia ? Surely that is more racist . The fact you think people only voted brexit because they were all racist ( you also think all those who voted Brexit were white ? )

Do you have proof that some "foreigner" is the reason that you are being moved down the list?

Do you have link to those stats and recent ? Per capita

Yes.

I also call it "British people lay down and let them walk all over us" syndrome

It's not what I feel is going on, it's what IS going on.

I've lived in and around the areas currently in the news my whole life, so I've witnessed first-hand how multiculturalism simply has not worked. That's among migrants who are already here, so natives of these areas are understandably concerned about yet thousands more coming to the UK who have zero desire to assimilate and appear to want to turn the UK into the very countries they are fleeing.

I can give you a list of things I've witnessed personally but I'm much more interested to know how much of these areas you are actually 'seeing' with your own two eyes for you to have made the decision that there are no problems and anyone who says otherwise is just a bigot!?
How often do you visit?
Are you there for work?
Are you socialising/spending any length of time?
Or are you just passing through en route to catch the next train out to your leafy suburb?
Because obviously passing through somewhere and living it 24/7 are wildly different things. This is what those crying 'far right' and 'bigot' are seemingly failing to understand.

I am sick to death of people banging on about Brexit

just move on

A woman is killed about every 3 days in the UK. Not usually by an asylum seekers. Much more likely to be a man from her family or known to her. Strange you're so focused upon that one murder.

Sorry, they were separate points. I wasn’t saying that people who voted for Brexit were racist. I was listing the things that have surprised me over the years. Brexit and the rise in racism being 2 things, not one thing combined. Reading it back I can see how it looks as though I conflated the 2.

For so called intelligent people, the Janet and John argument that only racists voted for Brexit, is amusing. These are the folk, who actually stifle critical thinking in universities, while insisting they have it, in abundance. As one poster (inevitably) brought Johnson into the thread, nothing will ever beat him calling one of his many detractors, a lefty tosser. They can dish it out, but as soon as you fight back, out come all the labels. Lefty tosser was long overdue and returned the favour, magnificently. Reform have many of them to thank.

I'm quite sure it would be in the news if a hotel filled with only women and children was under seige and surrounded by Nazis, has there been any coverage?

Cambridge Uni used to publish the "bloopers" made by students during exams. Some were really shocking howlers. It was an internal publication that was never seen by the general public. So funny.

What? Why? We have thousands of old people in nursing homes with no staff to look ok after them, people come over from Africa to do this, what is your problem with this, are you willing to clean an old man? I disagree with Islam (current meaning) judge people on their actions

🙄 not sure where you’ve got that idea from, from me just quoting that I would like asylum seekers with criminal records to be immediately deported? But if you don’t agree with that sentiment, then that’s fine. Different opinions and all that….🤷‍♀️

So it is more useful for you to make that list of the things you have witnessed, isn't it? But you are reluctant to do so because...?