This is what the leave vote has validated

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I voted remain. I'm ashamed of brin British right now.

My mixed-race DH (born in Britian and a specialist nurse in the NHS) was sat in his car at the bus station waiting for our Dd yesterday when a group of 30s men gave him a load of ungracious hand gestures. We live in a town which has very few brown-skinned people, so it's scary that he and our children will stand out as targets for the idiots.

Sorry,,looks a bit fuzzy.

What a disgrace.

I woke up on the day of the referendum results and wished I hadn't bequeathed my children vowelly sounding names.

FOREIGN vowelly sounding names. That word was key!

why isn't there a massive revolt against Westminster?

Just like in the London Mayoral election, tapping into racism was a campaign strategy. Unlike Zach Goldsmith, the Brexit camp succeeded. They blamed immigration for all our ills. Zero hours contracts, social housing shortages, NHS waiting lists, sexual assaults ... The list was never ending. They told the bigots that they were right to be hateful 'concerned.' The sentiment they've stirred up isn't going anywhere.

What did those who voted in expect to happen? It was obvious the racists were going to vote to leave and now they think they were right and that most people are in agreement with them. That's why they now think its ok to speak their view in public whereas before they kept their views more private.

What did those who voted out expect to happen.

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Just lost my post bit sillylittleorange the OP was saying our leave vote validated these people's actions and I am saying 17 million people are not racists therefore how can their vote be seen as validating this awful behaviour.

Incidents like those mentioned did happen before Thursday.

The campaign actively courted racists. It doesn't mean that all its supporters are racist. It does mean that most racists supported it.

I work in an inner city school and there were staff members saying how great the Leave victory was "because all the the immigrants can just go". One of the assistants even gestured to a certain table of children and she said it with such venom that I believe that it must have been bubbling under. I don't think I'll ever look at her the same way again tbh.

I live in a part of the country where the Leave/Remain split was 70/30. I can tell you that the racism is widespread, open expressed and proudly held.

I particularly remember a rant in the village high street last year, when a morbidly obese man with a shaved head started screaming about planning prrmission given to an Asian firm to turn a former pub into a shop. His voice cracking falsetto, he shouted that "they" should be shot as traitors for imposing sharia on "real people". I have since heard that the firm abandoned the development after they were sent hate mail.

Spot on Sonic

It doesn't matter that most leave voters are not racists. It matters that the racists perceive that lots of people agree with their views, even if its an delusional perception.

Its smelly actually Cheese OP has explained that the Leave vote has provided a platform for the extremists to be even more racist. If this does not bother you then fair enough but she is not calling leave voter racists clearly . FWIW real life people have told me and witnessed first hand the increase in racism over the last few days - but there has always been a racist elemnt to this society so I guess that's ok right!??

It sounds dramatic, but I remember waking up the day after the referendum and switching on my ipad next to the bedside table to find out the results, and when the headlines screamed "leave" I was dumbfounded, and then my 4 year old daughter walked in all sleepy and innocent holding her teddy, I cried buckets because I thought what kind of world will she inherit? Like I say, dramatic but that's how I felt..and still do.

I work in an inner city school and there were staff members saying how great the Leave victory was "because all the the immigrants can just go". One of the assistants even gestured to a certain table of children and she said it with such venom that I believe that it must have been bubbling under. I don't think I'll ever look at her the same way again tbh

jesus! I hope you reported and escalated a complaint?

Racists do not represent "leave", any more than other extremists represent the causes they hide behind. No-one should feel they must change their views just because someone else using a perfectly valid viewpoint as an excuse for vile behaviour.

All of those are horrifying

As someone who has lived in the Republic of Ireland all my life(and never seen foreign people be treated like that) but has been hoping to move to England in a few years time when I'm older, I have to say this Leave vote and the consequences of it (including horrible racists comments from some people) will be making me think again
I would hate to think that some people would feel like they had the right to treat me like that just because of my nationality and not even consider why I am there and what I could offer for the country

So do these few racist people then think that they would be happily welcomed into a foreign country if they ever decided to move/travel to somewhere outside the UK even though they've been treating other migrants badly?

The more I think about it, the more the whole thing sickens me

And by that I mean they're pretending to be the same as those with perfectly valid views, not that they are the same.

Yes Adulting I will on Monday. The atmosphere in school was fraught on Friday as we have a lot of EU staff working in the school and Monday is an Inset day so I will speak to the HT then.

There is a lot of resentment towards the EU staff as well because they are used for language teaching and tbh some of the English speaking-only staff are frankly jealous. They feel sidelined somehow. However, the fact remains that foreign languages are a statutory part of the curriculum in ks2 now and we need to cater for that.

It's a deeply complicated issue in my workplace and I think that the knives will really be coming out on Monday with no kids around.

MamaBear yes, I believe they do believe they would be welcomed because they believe they are superior. therefor any foreign country they deign to go to should welcome them with open arms, obviously

OK here is the thing - this is a thread about the increase of racist abuse that has occurred because of the referendum. Please do not belittle by being all hoighty toighty because you voted leave but are not a racist! Real people are experiencing real and increased racism out there it is inextricably linked with the referendum and it is NOT OK for this to be happening in our society !

the OP was saying our leave vote validated these people's actions and I am saying 17 million people are not racists therefore how can their vote be seen as validating this awful behaviour.

I don't think it was OP saying that the Leave vote validated this behaviour; it is the racists who are saying that. OP was simply spelling that fact out. The mindset of these fuckwits was, essentially: "I want forrins out. Leaving the EU will get forrins out. Therefore I must vote Leave. Oh good, we won, so all the forrins have to leave. 16 million people therefore agree with me that forrins are evil. I personally have won and I have a bigger willy than anyone else so I can do what I like. Oh good, there's a brown person over there that I can now freely bully because the referendum vote was on my side."

Sorry, Leave voters, but that's the company you chose to keep. Live with the consequences of the decisions you take and stop acting all injured about it or pretending those consequences don't exist.