Comment Re:News for nerds? (Score 2) 221
> Are you actually living in the UK?
Yup
> Racism is fucking rampant in the UK. Has been for a long time. You pretending it doesn't exist or pretending it wasn't a deciding factor for some people is just ignorant. Go and explore your own country and get out of the house a bit. Ideally go with a black or Indian friend (you have those right?), or someone named Ahmed. Maybe after witnessing what it's like first hand you'll get a clue.
This is about Brexit not generalised racism.
As in what the deciding factors for Brexit was, like I said cheap polish labour.
In my case I have relatives in the building industry, I also used to work in an office in the same building as the polish embassy (the lift's were constantly full of people with pram's filling up the lifts annoying the hell out of everyone)
Being Gex X myself I got to glimpse both sides of the coin.
The generation before mine, during the days of Bernard manning, those were really racist (go look up some of his vidoes)
From what I heard (before my time) if someone was black and got off the train in my local town, they'd be escorted right back onto the train.
They even used to run TV shows during the 80's such as rising damp Lenny Henry etc to get people use to others with a different appearance
My generation growing up during all of this had it drilled into us not to give a shit and had a different level of exposure, we were taught never to judge based on appearance.
If you were to re-run brexit now would it be about race?
I would say very much so, realistically people's view's have been skewed a lot due to the immigration issues.
In reality it's actually more of a culture issue, with people from far abroad following a different set of rules and trying to import or force those rules onto the locals.
But the average pleb isn't going to care about that, instead they'd just simplify it to a race thing, simply because of all the non stop stabbings and two tier justice all over the news recently.
The issue we're going to run into is that justice needs to be applied equally to all
You don't get to be coddled like a child just because of a different colour
If you start giving people special privileges or free shit that's when the riots and the vigilantism starts to kick off