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.

They can afford to be because right now they’re protected from the natural consequence of what is happening. Their children and grandchildren won’t be.

I think that Australia, as a country, has a bloody cheek with its attitude towards immigrations given its history. I say “as a country” because none of my Australians friends recognise Australia Day because they see it as disrespectful to the aborigines who were there long before them and whose country it actually is.

It’s the appropriate response to your question.

Haha, no, but I’m interested in how many countries will simply get the label racist, due to their developing stance on immigration, particularly illegal migration. I also wonder why people want for us, a situation that no other country is going to accept?

That’s performative really though, rather than anything.

What a stupid and baseless comment. The difference between people like you and the OP (and I) is that we have disgust for all crimes of this nature, regardless of the perpetrators country of origin. My daughter was sexually assaulted by her best friends dad. A local, white British man who played a huge part in the community prior to his crimes being uncovered. It was in the newspaper. His family were aware. His boss read a character statement for him in court. I can't remember any protests outside his home, his place of employment. Or outside the homes of people who just happened to look like him and are therefore guilty by association. I don't remember the protests after ANY case of sexual assault or rape of children, or women, after a white man committed the crime. My local MP currently facing charges of sexual assault....no uproar there, Reform had an MP who had served time in prison for repeatedly kicking a woman in the head...no uproar there either. Funny that isn't it. Certainly not racially motivated hatred though, just genuine concern for women & girls...as long as their abuser is brown.

I genuinely don't know anyone in support of illegal migration, do you?

Asking again because I’m guessing you missed my question, but do you have a source for this “factual statement”, please?

I've reported it already OP, but the more people who do the more likely they are to act. I'm so sorry that your thread which was started with the best of intentions has descended into this.

For fucks sake.

There is more uproar when an early released offender offends again.

Not because the impact on the victim is worse or different but because active decisions were made to grant the attacker access to their victim.

We can’t stop white British men existing alongside us. We can’t deport them.

But we CAN prevent these men - who offend at higher rates - from accessing British women.

If you can’t wrap your head around that, you are committed to misunderstanding me

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

Yes, exactly this and that's what some posters seem unable to grasp.

Well this thread tells me that if you don’t support it, then you must be a racist or a Nazi.

Agree. We're swamped by the racists, xenophobes and bigots unfortunately, they are taking over the UK. They refuse to learn how to communicate, they won't integrate or abide by the tolerant values of the UK. They are terrified of those who don't share their views.

It doesn’t exist. I asked multiple times. They had no response to my first post, conveniently completely ignoring it and replying to others, then when I asked again they merely provided a link to the telegraph who claimed the statistic was from the ministry of justice but provided no link.

This poster conveniently ignores counter evidence but still claims they aren’t racist and are just ‘’concerned’’

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There's still plenty of us out there who aren't and just aren't as vocal and shouty online, so I'm not giving up hope just yet.

No, this thread definitely doesn't tell you that. Asylum and illegal migration are two separate issues.

Thanks for telling me. I haven’t read the whole thread 👍🏾

In my previous job, some of my clients were refugees who we supported with resettlement.

I can think of at least 5 families where the father had come to the UK seeking asylum and the the women and children came later, once asylum had been granted. I can only recall working with 2 single people who were refugees, and one of them was a woman.

The Telegraph is right wing but under press standards are not allowed to post outright falsehoods. You’re demented if you think they can. Neither can the Guardian, BBC, Express or any of the others.

More detailed records on asylum and ethnicity status are about to be kept, so let’s revisit in a year.

We will mirror Sweden, where 63% of rapists are immigrants who arrived after age 15.

Yet another left winger full of slurs and label's where are you getting all these labels from Dynamo must be making a fortune 😂

You're making a sweeping generalisation that paints male asylum seekers as a threat based on nothing more than gender and origin.

Claiming they're a risk because they might be "sexually frustrated" is not only dehumanising, it’s not backed by evidence. The vast majority of sexual offences in the UK are committed by British men, not refugees, actual data shows the foreign born sex crime rate to be broadly in line with the foreign born population of the UK.

If you're genuinely concerned about integration, the solution is proper processing, support, and pathways to contribute, not stoking fear based on lazy stereotypes.

Amazed they were willing to leave them somewhere so perilous.

It's not just pathetic, it's bizarre!
Turning on their own countrymen.
I just can't fathom it.

Imagine if they'd tried this shit during the 2 world wars?

So if we call illegal migration, ‘asylum seeking from France’, then we are not racists.