Racism in uk

[Charltonstrek]

Im finding the level of racism here in the UK to be very unsettling and it seems to be getting worse and im finding it depressing as I have a Muslim partner and I wonder if there is a future here for him. Ive mostly witnessed this on social media with some very derogatory comments anybody else or am I too sensitive

He's Islamaphobic not racist. You can be white, brown, black, any race can be Muslim. You are using the wrong terminology.

Different from schools closing. Christmas and Easter are public holidays (due to this being a Christian country)

There’s a far right online propaganda machine driven and supported by some murky Russian influences which is pushing the anti-Islam rhetoric about the UK.

It’s infecting the tabloid papers and other online spaces including Mumsnet.

I hope it isn’t seeping into real life interactions for your partner.

Where are these 1.47 billion Indians in the UK? I haven't seen them.

@nomas You wouldn’t have - because colonisation doesn’t grant anyone the right to settle in the UK, although I’m sure you would disagree with that.

No one in Britain is responsible for what dead people did to other dead people in the past.

So comments like “but Britain plundered their countries” is just old hat at this point. No one had it good in the past.

Explorers apparently these days

The poster asked which additional days Christian kids could ask for a day off from school.

Christmas and Easter weren't in my list, she asked they not be included.

i agree that the British expats in Spain should learn Spanish, but you are not comparing like with like. A large percentage of British in Spain are retirees who have moved there to live off their uk pensions. They spend their money in the local economy and are highly unlikely to need to work or claim benefits. I appreciate many immigrants to the uk do work, but if they do not have good written and spoken understanding of the English language, they are unlikely to be in well paid employment and will often be partly supported by universal credit etc, particularly if they have a large family.

Yes they are very lovely people
thanks. We don’t discuss politics so can’t tell you their views on Nigel Farage. I think their views on Pakistan are fairly standard in their community from what I can gather

This thread is literally highlighting the habitual downplaying of anti-semitism that's rife in this country.

But my school used to close for both Epiphany and the feast of the Immaculate Conception. My son's classmates who are making their first penance this week have the day off for religious observation. They'll have the same for their first Holy Communion next year and Confirmation in P7. The kids who aren't doing the sacraments don't stay off. How is that any different?

You have some charming friends and heroes.

The OP was about racism against Muslims, not anti-Semitism.

Exactly.

Perhaps have a word with Starmer and his Britain hating governemt

No it wont though will it?
Thats part of the problem.

Oh that’s ok then is it?

This thread is about racism. All different sorts of racism. I’m sure OP is just as horrified by antisemitism as any other form of racism, as any other decent person would be.

No, read again. The OP cites hsving a Muslim partner, but talks about racism.

Is racism only directed against Muslim people now?

Im finding the level of racism here in the UK to be very unsettling and it seems to be getting worse and im finding it depressing as I have a Muslim partner and I wonder if there is a future here for him. Ive mostly witnessed this on social media with some very derogatory comments anybody else or am I too sensitive

@Firstbornunicorn "But sometimes it's driven by the fact that they can speak English, so it makes sense to go to a country where they speak the language. Or sometimes there are relatives here who came over during Windrush."

I can tell you don't live in an area with large amounts of asylum seekers. Firstly, a very high proportion of them don't speak English at all and don't come from ex British countries. Secondly, are you seriously saying that any of them have connections to the Windrush generation? That's absolutely bonkers. A tiny (virtually non existent percentage) are from the Caribbean. The majority come from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran.

Don’t be so Rediculous, the late Queen occasionally wore a scarf tied under her chin when taking the dogs out, she wasn’t compelled to wear it as religious dress for the obligatory covering of her hair. Very few nuns still wear a head covering, but if they do they are usually part of a religious order. It’s not as if all catholic women are obliged to wear one. The youngest child I ever saw was a toddler in the baby seat of a supermarket trolley. She couldn’t have been more than two years old. She had a full headscarf covering her head. I just thought I’d was terribly sad.

it's really not helpful when an OP starts a thread about racism against her Muslim partner and within the first few posts the thread is hijacked by bad faith actors saying 'per capita Jews are the most likely to experience racism. We have definitely been ignoring that as a society, it’s extremely sad and an indictment of where the Uk is today.'

If someone brings up Islamophobia in the first few posts on a thread about anti-Semitism, you could be accusing them of derailing.

She is concerned about racism because of her Muslim partner. She doesn't need to be dismissed and told Jewish people have it way worse. That doesn't help anyone.

The thread uses her Muslim partner AS AN EXAMPLE. Goodness your reading comprehension needs work!

The point is this poster doesn't want Muslim women to be allowed to wear a headscarf, but thinks Christian women (including the late Queen), Sikh women, Jewish women should all be allowed.

So how does it help her to tell her Jewish people have it way worse?