I had to pull over whilst driving earlier today because I was made to cry, feel sick and despair at great shit storm of horror that this fucking stupid referendum has produced.
Old people having dogshit thrown at their front door because they are “foreign’ despite having lived here for 40 years enriching and helping the local community
Kids being beaten up and spat on, asked when they are going home, told their mum and dad will be deported. Not just be other kids but by adults.
Property damaged and defaced because “immigrants go there”
Yes, the majority who voted Leave are not like this and would condemn it just as quickly but something has changed. I think these morons somehow see the EU as a base of ‘political correctness gone mad’ and with the referendum result they think those nasty black thoughts they used to push way down inside are OK to be expressed again. Take me back to dear old Blighty where you could called a spade a coon.
It seems this has become a game for the trolls which has spilled from Twitter onto our streets
Fuck them, they don’t, they don’t speak for us.
http://www.lbc.co.uk/im-so-scared-now-german-woman-hit-by-xenophobia-calls-james-in-tears-132971
I thought this was being exaggerated, but just today I caught a bus outside hospital. As I got on I saw two middle-aged women in conversation waiting for another bus. All I caught was the phrase “Fucking Romanians in A and E…”
Long before this I used to hear similar remarks from ignorant people in the course of my work.
Those of us who find this stuff intolerable must stand up and be counted. It’s no good just complaining about it on blogs, we must call it out when we encounter it. If we can’t change their minds at least get them back hiding under their stones.
Something that used to annoy me was tenants of the housing association our firm worked for making racist remarks about workmates (and friends) of mine who happened to be east European. All of them had been insulted to their faces on more than one occasion and when they verbally reacted they were told by our bosses they must not react, yet if they didn’t they’d be sent back to the same addresses later. Incidents were reported to the Housing association and reports generated but nothing was ever actually done. These people deserved to be out on their arses.
I agree. Believe me if (i) I want half on the bus (ii) just waiting there and fully heard what they said, I would have said something.
duh: “I wasn’t”
God you’re braver than me. I’d never get involved in something like that. Knowing my luck it would turn out that the Romanians had been fighting and fully deserved to be slagged off. And what do you say anyway? “Oi, that’s not very nice.”
Yeah exactly. Actually the last time it happened was a long time ago. Watching a England World Cup qualifier in a lake district village pub. A bunch of late middle age guys were having a go at Paul Ince with the phrase lazy black bastard. I did say something like “Oi, that’s not very nice.” They gave me a stare down and that was it. But TBH if I had thought before opening my big gob, I probably wouldn’t have and i got out fast at the end of the match.
I did admonish the idiots I heard spouting bullshit today but as it was on a customers site and I was at work the language was calm and measured ie no effing n Jeffing. They went very quiet n mumbled apologies. The cunts
Friend-of-a-friend had been hanging around with us a few times. Really nice, friendly bloke – quite funny. I quite liked him.
A group of us watch England play rugby. Black player fumbles the ball “ahh fuck off back to the jungle ya c***”. Then he makes a small hate speech. “Do you really, honestly think that?” I say. Only encourages him and he turns the dial to 11. He assumed he was with a group of like-minded people.
There’s nothing more disappointing than getting someone badly wrong. After that, if there was a planned get together I would ask if he was going and then decline the invite if he was. I was very open with the others about it. Don’t know where he is now.
Nope heard plenty of similar shit in Swindon yesterday and Kingston Upon Thames – that infamous slum
Not surprised by what you heard in Swindon DFB, it’s got a long history of decline, which although now largely reversed (hello Honda, please don’t go now that we’ve collectively shat the blanket) has left a large rump of disengaged – mostly older – people who would vote for a hamster on acid if they thought it’d help their prospects in some undefined way.
French school trip kids told to “go home” twice in 15 mins on Friday in… Cambridge. I despair.
Perhaps the racist twerps had travelled down from nearby Huntingdon, home of the ‘Polish vermin’ postcards. I’d happily see a wall built around the place, the Polish residents can all move out and leave them small-minded idiots to it.
You’re quite right to highlight this. I mentioned somewhere else that I have noticed an atmosphere and I live in London. If anyone says rubbish like that in my earshot, they will hear from me. I still believe in the fundamental decency of this country and its people but some of this stuff is ugly
Me neither.
4 years ago, we were celebrating our diversity, multiculturalism and “the British Way” in a spectacular Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Cynical as I was before the event, I have to admit that it did make me want to puff my chest out in pride at the moments of inclusion that I take for granted.
A nation where our national dishes are Chicken Tikka Masala and Doner Kebabs, and it is coming to this?
Yes, this is a small faction of airheads who probably thought the “Leave” vote was just that – “Time To Leave” – and expected changes overnight.
Doubtless there was some of this unpleasantness going on before voting, and is now being jumped on by a blood hungry media.
But it all feels a bit uncomfortable.
Yeah of course, Brexit didn’t invent TEH RACITZ but it could be said to legitimise such opinions in the minds of hie terminally dense
Perhaps I wear rose-tinted spectacles but I always thought of the UK of being a country that at least tries to do the right thing, even if it didn’t always work out. But it feels that we have taken a massive step backwards with this vote.
I don’t think there are any more racists and bigots now than there was before last Thursday it is just that we have emboldened them.
I just hope that we can stop this ugly situation before its too late.
“It’s too late to stop now.”
I did “rose tinted”. I’m just a hopeless optimist.
But it is bit by bit being ground out of me.
I listened to that. It really upset me.
It feels like we’re rolling backwards in time to the 70s again.
I want Britain back again.
The one we had a week ago.
Britain hasn’t changed, honestly. These idiots were out there before and our wonderful press who played a massive part in the “out” vote now want to report every single racist incident because todays headlines just weren’t news a week ago. Scaremongering before the vote from both sides, more scaremongering after the vote, I wish everyone would just calm down. Listen to some Enya or something……….
I listened to some Enya. It really upset me.
Getting involved.
The racism in Australia tends to be directed at “Asians” which means people from China and the neighbouring countries.
I’ve always found that very weird because Asians generally work harder than most Aussies and put in longer hours in shit jobs the locals wouldn’t touch.
My local greengrocers is run by a family from, I think, Vietnam and they are the loveliest people you could meet. The woman behind the till has a speech impediment which makes her already strong accent and poor English almost unintelligible.
I walked in there a while ago to see a local Aussie shouting at her “Speak fucking English!” I stepped in and told him that was no way to speak to the lady. Instantly he was in my face looking for a ruck.
Luckily I managed to talk him down, but I suspect he was on crystal meth, which is endemic in Australia. But it was a scary moment and I’d think twice about doing it again.
Not sure I agree with the thrust ofd this thread. No doubt some of us can tell of some unpleasant behaviour they have seen or heard this weem. Perhaps we are attuned to it more closely of late and so it registers more strongly with us.
Yep, the wankers are oozing out of the woodwork this week, certainly, no doubt emboldened (good word, saw it elsewhere here recently) by the vote. They will have their say, mouths will froth in the press then we’ll carry on being the nice accepting inclusive multicultural not very racist at all country we have been heading towards incrementally for decades.
I suspect that demands on where you live.
Depends even.
Well obviously one can slice and dice but I’m talking – again obviously – about the country generally.
You may be right. Then again, recent events suggest that the incremental improvement you describe may not have been as broad or deep as previously thought.
Because they see themselves as part of the 52%, the National Front and BNP have crawled out from under their rocks this week, seething with validation. Some others who have long held xenophobic thoughts, but would never have dared to speak them out loud before now because of the opprobrium that would rightly fall upon them for doing so, have felt empowered to speak because of statements from skidmarks like Farage & Johnson.
I accept there is racism aplenty everyewhere. My point is that this is a comparatively inclusive country. I can’t offer any stats and I may be suffering from the same sheltered worldview as your standard racist/xenophobe but that’s my feeling.
It has always been there – not all racist thugs can get their kicks through anonymous trolling on Twitter..some of them need to do the real thing. Hate crimes happen everywhere, every hour, every day. Any that happen over the next week or so will get more oxygen of publicity right now – but for sure some will be ‘inspired’ and feel validated by Brexit – more will be reported too because people are attuned to this stuff as the good MC says above. You will see a rise in the crime stats for all those reasons.
I suspect it will ease off as eventually the racist fuckwits will realise that nobody is being sent “home” and hate crimes are still..y’know…crimes. For people that don’t frequent Twitter (or get the gist of it second hand from this site as I do!) , the scale of racism, bigotry and hatred in this country may come as a surprise – it’s come to the fore this week and I hope people are rightly shocked by it, think about why that is and what we can all do to change that.