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

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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

Also disgusting as there's nothing wrong with people who aren't white "hanging around parks" (ie, just being at the park!) What are they basing their knowledge that they're "immigrants" on and must be up to no good? Their skin colour?! 🙄

People flee for all sorts of reasons, it doesn't mean the whole family are affected. A Syrian man may be fleeing execution for opposing the current government for example. That doesn't mean his whole family are in danger.

Bearing in mind that lovely distillery in Nepal, founded by former Scots regimental people, (a) a lot of you were and (b) exporting whisky making is clearly one of the greatest contributions one can make to civilisation.

No, Reform wouldn't definitely win. I don't understand why people keep repeating that and you live in an echo chamber where people apparently blame immigrants for everything wrong with the country.

I don't know anyone who mindlessly goes on about foreigners all the time, people I know tend to have a wide range of opinions.

I have read that the world is becoming more right wing generally.

Oh I think you demonstrated enough of your views for me to be very certain I don't agree with you.

I doubt that many people would be heavily concerned about immigration if (a) we hadn't spent the last two decades seeing our public services demolished and our wages stagnating and (b) we weren't told across mainstream and social media that immigrants are a terrible danger to our way of life. It's really easy to manipulate public opinion, we all know that.

Quite right to feel unsafe, OP. Half black women arent safe is the UK, surely your day to day life proves this.

It's a crime called Being In A Park While Brown. It's how these people think. And they're right here on this thread. With their apologists.

I try to tell myself that there isn’t more racists, but that the racists feel more entitled to express their racism. Nevertheless it’s depressing.

Also we - non-bigots - are supposed to empathise with them and understand their racism. That's changed. Nobody thought we should consider whether the NF had a point of view. Now anti-racism is cited as a reason why racists are emboldened!

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This. There is no "debate" to be had. I'm not about to understand racism. It's always dressed up in "we just have legitimate concerns" and "oh, so you don't care about women and children then?!" 🙄

Apparently if you close them down, they automatically vote Reform. People keep threatening me with it for some reason, as though they weren't anyway...

Yep that's always a bit transparent!

Yes, definitely just more emboldened, I don't think there's necessarily more.Racist gobshites just sound louder as they've got social media to spout off on now and gather together and egg each other on. Plenty in RL just as disgusted as us but aren't as vocal about it.

Do you really all believe in this ‘us’ and ‘them’ narrative? I wish the world was as simple as it is in some people’s heads!! But the ironic thing is it’s the same posters who are constantly saying how thick and uneducated ‘they’ are ….

So say the nylon flag clad fools that have never lifted a hand to a woman or child.
I've related my experiences of contact with people involved in the extreme far right there's a lot of uniform fetishists,I've was shown photos from a Rock against communism festival from the late 80s grown men in brown shirt uniform and SS uniform and the odd Hitler.

The local NF organiser for our area was mid 40s and liked the company of teen skinheads.
He was later busted with child abuse imagery.. magazines iirc late 80s.

As the Specials sang on the record.Why.
With a Nazi salute and a steel cap boot.
You follow like sheep in a wolves clothes.

I'm not sure that's a very helpful stance. We have to assume that ALL the family is in peril unless we categorically can state otherwise. Don't give the reformers any more opportunity and start picking holes in the family reunification programme! We know enough that regimes won't just be threatening a single person, it will be all members of the family.

I disagree. Asylum seekers are often criticised for leaving their families to face unimaginable conditions after being abandoned.

People already believe that is happening.

Anti-discrimination legislation came into force in 1976 and was given teeth via the Commission for Racial Equality. There was a lot of activism. Groups like the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism organised events, marches etc.

And we had a whole generation reaching adulthood who'd been educated alongside children from minority groups, so didn't see them as "other" in the way that their parents' generation did.

What puzzles me is why that particular pendulum is swinging back so far in the opposite direction.

It’s fairly thick to question why a black man would be in a playground with his grandchildren.

It’s also fairly thick to then say “it wasn’t me!!” When really it’s just that it was your social media team, who you manage.

It’s thick to consider human beings illegal. It’s thick to assume men are crossing the ocean, because they want to bring crime to “our shores.” Seems a lot of effort, right?

It’s thick to have a preferred type of asylum seeker. It’s thick to not want people in disused hotels, but also not want them living next door.

I could continue 😂

I had to laugh at GMTV this morning .Now that hotel has shut in Epping the new concern was what if they get put up in social housing.
They won't as they have no eligibility for UC that has rent element council or private.
They'll likely be dispersed throughout the country.

I wonder how many conservative donor's got favourable terms for hotel contracts considering there were 400 premises.

I'm in no way denying that the journey is hard and dangerous, of course it is, and thst underlines just how desperate people must be to make it. But staying behind must be even more dangerous, otherwise no one would undertake the journey in the first place. If staying behind gives you 50% chance of survival, and doing the journey gives you 80% chance of survival (just random numbers to illustrate point), of course you would take the 80%? And that underlines the misogyny - men are seen are more important, so they are the priority for the 80% chance and the women have to stick with the 50%. I work a family where it took 7 years for the man to get his wife and children over. In that time she was raped on a regular basis - in her words 'they did what they wanted to me as my husband was not there to stop them, they knew he was gone and not coming back' . Her teenage daughter, who is disabled and under our care, was also raped several times, and is now mute through trauma, and disabled through being beaten over head and suffering brain damage in the attacks.