AIBU to think that racism is getting a lot worse of late.

[AliceMaforethought]

Just read this awful story in the Guardian. Awful and makes me feel so angry and so unsafe as a half Black woman.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/family-in-fear-after-tommy-robinson-shares-video-of-black-man-with-white-granddaughters

You're not being attacked even when you tell us we're being British wrong.
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Well, I guess this thread has proved the OP right.

We do see the problem. We can see it because we've seen it before. In the 60s, 70s and 80s.

The problem is Racism!

Yep, that’s all it is, no need to think harder…

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England flags are being placed on lamp posts in huge numbers - does that not remind people of anything? The far right is on the march again and the UK's prime minister pleads ignorance. Of course racism is on the rise. I was born in the 70s and things are at least as bad as I've ever seen them. I never thought we'd be in danger of having a far right government and that's exactly where we are now. It's terrifying.

And for all the posters repeating the rubbish about refugees being obliged to stop in the first safe country they reach, for one they are legally entitled to pass through as many countries as they like to end up in a place of their choice. And secondly, France is clearly NOT a safe country for refugees - racism there is even more overt and violent than it currently is here. This man's story sums it up.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/20/at-19-i-had-to-flee-my-country-afraid-for-my-life-without-even-saying-goodbye-to-my-family?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Huh?

We lived the history of the UK. We've seen it before. We know what this is: Same racist shit, different century.🤷‍♀️

We have to oppose it so the country stops being a racist nightmare and returns to the great, diverse country that attracted you, and we enjoyed. A country where we discuss and resolve our differences like civilised people.

think harder?
Maybe you should take your own advice as your understanding of the UK is still a bit, superficial?

What's wrong with being idealistic? I agree with Oscar Wilde on this;

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”.

Great, let's have all of Frances refugees and then all the ones from Germany too. Instead of 10m refugees a decade we can have 20m. Let's all retire at 80 so we can pay for them as they will need subsidising for the rest of their lives by people who are net taxpayers. Great.

Why don't you take the refugees in your private house and pay money to charity if you want to rather than forcing the rest of us to pay money we don't have so they can live in hotels.

Being concerned does not condone Racism which is what the OP is about. We're talking about Racism and you're talking about small boats as if it is justification for that. You said you have experi3nced Racism in Spain and then said 'their country, their rules' or something similar. You hijacked the thread from Racism to native concerns about small boats as if to justify it. Maybe don't be so clumsy when making points and it would come across better or maybe even relevant.

My colouring is very similar. When I was a child my dad was called “P*” (70s/80s).

DH is Irish and my children have inherited his eye colour, hair and skin tone. I have been asked if I’m their biological mother.

I have noticed a group in my local town, masquerading as do gooders, are going around attaching England flags to lamp posts.. they are also "litter picking" at the same time and making it sound like they are clearing the town up when it just seems like a thinly veiled excuse to be racist.
It is giving me massive BNF vibes.

No, of course it won't save me. But going with your naive narrative that all boat people
Are genuine asylum seekers and we need to help them is plain dumb.

Then their motivation isn't safety which is what asylum is for.

This. You can't tell by looking if someone is an illegal immigrant or has been in the country for generations. If anyone black/white, male/female appears to be taking too much interest in your children watch out for them but don't make assumptions.

Edit: I meant watch out for your children - watch them.

Same in my area and I find it very troubling. At the moment it's confined to a few streets so I hope it doesn't spread. I was a young adult in the 70s and it's even more overt now, I don't remember all the flags then.

I follow his account, he is doing nothing wrong. Why shouldn't he walk in the countryside?

I was born in the 50s, and it's worse than I can remember at any point in my life, and I include the 70s, when the National Front were marching through the streets, in that.

70% are given refugee status, therefore they have been found to have a well founded fear of persecution. The countries many are coming from speak for themselves such as Afghanistan and Iran.

Agreed the far right is on the march. People voting for them will reprint at leisure if they get in, probably more than the rest of us.

Where do you get the idea that they will all need subsidising?

A refugee who lived near me for a while is working as a psychiatrist in the NHS, a refugee friend runs the education programme for a local museum, when I had a plumbing emergency, the plumber who came and fixed it had come here as a refugee.

I've met loads of refugees who work and don't claim a penny from the state.

If we let asylum seekers work while they're awaiting asylum decisions, the tax they pay would offset some of the costs, but then people like you would be bleating that they're coming over here, takiing our jobs.

The country needs more young, working, tax payers - and there they are!

Blair stopped asylum seekers working because people complained that they were competing with them for jobs.

The flag shaggers have been round here overnight, attaching thier nylon, pound shop flags, part-way up the lamppost …. Flying half-mast to mourn the death of thier last braincell.

Wonder if they will bother maintaining them, or if they will be left to get dirty, and rot away… and the community left to clear them up.

It’s no act of rebellion, and I can’t feel anything other than sad.

Which most want to do. But while their asylum claim is being processed (which takes a rediculous amount of time) they aren’t allowed to work.

If we processed claims much much quicker and then let those who have right to remain work and build their lives then they would be able to contribute