I am scared my husband will be beaten or worse

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I am married to a man who is brown and from Asia, he's been in UK 10 years and is a citizen. I am English and have always lived in the UK.
We are leaving where we live to move closer to my parents, which I am happy about for many reasons one being where we live right now is an incredibly hostile and racist place. One of the worst in all of the UK and has been for some time.
The area we are moving to is nice enough and we should be safe in our home l, which we aren't really now.

I am scared everyday when my husband goes out that he will be assaulted for being brown with an accent. I am also scared the same will be the case for when we move with the uptake in angry, mindless fake-news concerning people who look like him.

He is shouted at and people are aggressive already and we've both seen how it has gotten worse. Where we live people are burnt of their homes for not being white so my view of all this is coloured by that but not unfairly so.

Getting off SM and MN would be a start . The sheer number of political threads is eye watering with so many people posting about the same thing . We must have had 10+ threads about flags alone and that means you think they are everywhere but it’s not true .

But racist attacks aren't exactly unusual are they? I think I'd be feeling pretty uncomfortable if I was a non-white person. To be fair, I feel pretty uncomfortable with the flag situation as a white person. Why the need to question someone's fear and feelings?

Yes, that’s exactly what came to my mind when I saw the ops post. I’m surprised that other posters on the thread seem to be unaware of how bad it’s been for people of colour in NI this year.

Are you in northern Ireland? I am from there and the recent spare of attacks have me filled with shame.

Really? Do you live under a stone? I say as a white person who grew up in northern Ireland and lives in Scotland.

Come and live on our street you won't get any grief

I so hope where we are moving to has this attitude.

I was going to say arson attacks reported in Northern Ireland a couple of times this summer

How on earth would it be outing to tell us where in the UK people are being burnt out of their homes?

Thank you for clarifying. I've genuinely not heard of these apart from something to do with a migrant hotel.

OP there are many multi cultural places in the UK that you'd feel more comfortable in. Hope you and your DH find peace.

From across the world, even I thought of NI first thing. ABC here is spruiking a current affairs thingy for this week on the subject.

As well as in NI, there have been recent racist attacks in Norwich, Stockport and Exeter - those are just ones I've found on a quick search. As with all crimes, there will be many that don't go reported.

Who are you to decide how someone else feels?

I’m not questioning someone’s fear and feeling, you will see in my first post that I acknowledged those and said I understood why they felt that way.

what I am questioning is the situations the OP was describing which appear to be unverifiable. No doubt much of this has been whipped up by the far left to destabilise the country.

Violence against women and white men has also been increasing round here.

I’m sorry you are experiencing this OP. You’d be welcome on my street too, I hope. I am starting to wonder how many closet racists live amongst us, but thankfully I know very few people who would be racist enough to say it out loud.

I have a feeling that you are living in NI? If you are, then I would move 💯 as the attacks on non nationals are disgusting.
There is areas in NI that are much safer. If you're in a loyalist area, where there is vigilante groups, I'd run anywhere.

In small towns close to where my family are from Asian nurses and their families were burnt out of their houses by neighbours. Not knowing about it is a bit shameful and insular in itself

The attacks are verifiable, as others have said. I'm also appalled by the rise is violent crime across the board. Aren't things awful right now?

This post is about concern for my husband, though, that's why the topic is a bit more specific.

You are questioning. There are lots of news stories outlining racist attacks. It is not a competition.

Empty houses, broken communities: One month on from the Ballymena riots | ITV News https://share.google/bgKqgptvtBc8CXowy

Unverifiable my foot.

While as a white person I wouldn't dream of telling anyone who isn't what is and isn't racism I live in a very multicultural place and I haven't heard about any attacks like that around here.
Nobody in my immediate area would care what colour your DH was and you would be very welcome in my street/village

It really wouldn’t be outing, but I understand why you wouldn’t want to say.

I am half Indian and I’ve had abuse chucked at me all of my 46 years, on and off.

Am I scared though? Nope. And I live in an absolute dog box of a place.

It's not shameful to not know something, especially if it's not widely reported in the national news. People aren't psychic.