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.

Cringe, you will be singing Kumbaya my lord whilst sat in the in the street with a tambourine and big glass of Prosecco next 😁

Those pesky fascists ruin it all!!

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No fascism is not about "intolerance"; it's about authoritarianism and creeping dictatorship coupled with highly militarised societies and loss of freedom and democracy. It's a far right, ultranationalist movement, not, as you imply, ordinary people rejecting exactly those ideas that cause racism to flourish.

So disappointing that you don't know that and that you pour scorn on "lefties". The Nazis weren't "lefties", were they, nor are any of the authoritarian far right wing leaders and dictators currently gaining a real foothold across Europe.

Well said 👏 you can see how the Rotheram girls were let down. It's playing out on this thread.

Also Anyone that resorts to name calling looses whatever argument they are in be that left/ right or in the middle. No one influences or changes someones mind by insulting them because they do not think like them. The issue is here and something needs to be addressed and sensible solutions considered.

Interesting that 90% of the people who use them are women seeking a religious divorce. Thank you for the link.

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You've just used a word salad, to reflect what intolerance is. The hard left have taken up that baton.

What “hard left”?

Also interesting to see it was chaired by a Professor of Islam and advised by a senior Imam.

The up and coming Corbyn party might give you a clue.

Shall we start with the ironically named Antifa? You know, the balaclava wearing thugs, who beat women up - amongst others.

Nope. I've given a brief outline of what fascism actually is, as opposed to your description which was incorrect and facile. I'm sorry if you have trouble understanding but it's pretty disgraceful to see you here defending literal Nazi ideology.

Agreed. Your point was very clear

"Word salad" means they didn't understand

Nope, you've regurgitated a load of socialist waffle.

You can usually spot them, with balaclavas and black face covering with banners saying "xenophobes" , "Rasists". frothing at the mouth when
Farage is mentioned.

On Sunday afternoons they are usually drinking skinny oat milk lates with prosecco flavoured nut and salad boxes, painting their banners with kids crayons and self fladulating.

Mondays they are usually scoffing at white people and telling them they have betrayed the country and should be ashamed of their history and they are all racists and scum. 😂

Religious councils are nothing new in the UK. Yes they can be problematic; religion is generally patriarchal and certainly not run in women's interests. But scaremongering about councils that have existed in the UK for four decades needs to be challenged. I'd say the same if you came on here moaning about the threat posed by the Beth Din.

Fladulating? Resists? Jesus.

Please can you tell me which other religions have 80+ courts operating outside of our legal system? And also which religion is the most patriarchal, given Islamic countries are by far the worst for human rights abuses and terrifying misogyny?

Oh sorry did my dyslexia offend you, that's another label to add.

I'm sad for you that you're having difficulty thinking but that is exactly the problem - avid consumers of social media tend to lack the ability to articulate, to focus for any length of time and to critically analyse concepts. As you've proved so neatly, today's bigots are sure that really complex issues can be distilled into hackneyed sound bites.

Careful, you're sounding woke now.

More word salad.

What is disheartening and depressing is to live in areas where the policies of unfettered mass immigration prove to be problematic and people are called bigots and racists for even speaking about it. Where will you allow people to talk about their frustrations and their concerns op?

You think you’re clever, and your bleeding heart is a sign of your moral superiority, but you fail to see that this stifling of people’s anxieties is exactly what sends them into the arms of Farage et al.

These people don’t just wake up and decide to irrationally hate immigrants. They look at their poor quality of life and question why. Not being listened to and told to stfu is a massive lever for stoking the fires of disunity. So whilst you’re smugly blaming the right wing parties, and the gutter press, and the social media extremists, take a long hard look at your own culpability in all of that.