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.

How pathetic to see absolutely everything through this lense and not be able to understand more than one crucial issue

(No idea where those emojis came from!)

It is terrible that a child was raped, but I am not going to engage with your attempts to weaponise her trauma to legitimise your racist bile.

Honest question. What do people think about the country of Australia? Are all of the people there racists because they stopped illegal immigration and took control of their borders? Would you visit Australia now, or would you be too concerned about their attitudes towards immigrants and foreigners?
Or is Australia somehow fine?

Yes, you are

But are those British men given direct access to their victim by the government? Are they let into this country unvetted, from much more misogynistic countries? We can’t DO much about home grown criminals apart from let the criminal justice system take its course. But the asylum rapists did NOT need to be here to gain access to their victims. Such a pathetic argument.

Is that the new equivalent of "but I have a black friend..."?

Is your ‘racist’ the equivalent of ‘children being raped is a bit uncomfortable for me so let’s not acknowledge it’?

It's not a claim and giving up Neo Nazi ideology definitely wasn't a bad thing.
The 90s were a long time ago and people change for all types of reasons.
The extreme far right has never gone away.
I'm definitely not advocating all and sundry wander in to Britain but violence is not an answer.

I quoted a pro imigration poster using there facts and the question was

I'm going to open this up to all the left leaning supporters on here and no one has ever addressed this point.
Over 88% of the illegal boat immigrants are male (quote " they will NEVER bring their families over here".)
Most will struggle to get their sexual needs met, a majority of the local population of girls and women do not want to date them. So what happens next when you dump large numbers into local communities?

You have groups of sexually frustrated young men (many with different values and cultures), what are you going to do?

This is played out in prison systems also.

And here we are as per the thread title. I'm out.

Given the way it treated its indigenous people - no it’s not fine. It’s a horribly racist country.

Yes, I can’t imagine. So many of them left their families to, nervously but excitedly, come here. When I think about it, it breaks my heart actually because, to be quite honest, even if they were welcomed with open arms, it would still have been so difficult. Imagine coming from such hot countries and being faced with British weather, especially in the winter when central heating didn’t even exist. But to be faced with racism and open hostility that you haven’t been primed for, I just can’t imagine.

Oh, well, you can't possibly hold any racist views at all then if you support Windrush. That makes it all ok

Ha, exactly

Ok, and Germany now?

And it's funny you should mention lies and ignorance because the very per capita stats you're referring to were manipulated by some media outlets to push a particular narrative.

Like when The Telegraph claimed that nearly a quarter of sex crimes were committed by foreigners. Only, when you looked at the actual data, it showed that foreign nationals accounted for around 15% of convictions, roughly in line with the UK’s foreign-born population. They got to that inflated figure by lumping in the 8% of convictions listed as “unknown nationality” with the foreign-born total to create a more sensational headline.

Or the recent Sun article claiming 4 in 10 sex crime suspects in London were foreign-born. Turns out, it was based on a report by a so-called "think tank" that's just one person with links to Reform UK. They not only cherry-picked the Met data, they literally deleted columns and tabs that didn’t support their narrative.

All you do - ALL you do - is say ‘racist’.

I can bring dozens of children being kidnapped and raped; and still, ‘racist’.

A woman being stabbed to death in the asylum hotel she worked in. ‘Racist’.

Hundreds of women being sexually attacked in ONE NIGHT in Cologne. ‘Racist’.

The attempted abduction of a 10 year old girl this week. ‘Racist’.

Pathetic, and you know it.

Is it racist for people to see non believers of their religion as worthy of death? I suppose not. Is there a term for that?

Are you going to keep going through every country in the world until you get one right?

It’s not battling the same issues now, if posters choose to avoid it I’m sure they’d be happy with that.

No, I just don't hold all asylum seekers collectively responsible for the actions of a few. Because it would be racist to do so.

But like I said, I'm not prepared to engage with you on this. Attempting to weaponise the rape of a young girl to spread your messages of hate tells me everything I need to know about you. I don't believe for a moment that you give a shit about the safety of women and girls.

Is that what Aboriginal people believe? I never knew.

I knew you’d try to get out of answering.