Hey. British. People. Read. This. Thread.
Seriously.
While no doubt the US is incredibly broken, many there are speaking out and condemning the rampant racism; it's an active issue.
Here in the UK, too many people are content to be apathetic and tolerant of racism.
Seriously.
While no doubt the US is incredibly broken, many there are speaking out and condemning the rampant racism; it's an active issue.
Here in the UK, too many people are content to be apathetic and tolerant of racism.
I'm not going to shut up about this, until the day I leave the UK because the latent xenophobia becomes just too much to bear.
It's not the overtly racist who bother me - it's the middle class "progressive" people, often vegan and socially committed and Labour supporters and all the good things - who refuse to speak out, who think we can just "keep calm and carry on."
... As though the UK can somehow be better post-Brexit, as though anything good can come of it. Brexit is right now. This is the test of the moral fibre of this country - not what happens after, but how you react now.
I'm sure all my shrug-your-shoulders British friends have muted me by now, so this is probably preaching to the choir, but it bears repeating:
Those of us who aren't from here feel deeply uncomfortable with how the majority of otherwise-progressive British people are acting.
Those of us who aren't from here feel deeply uncomfortable with how the majority of otherwise-progressive British people are acting.
Put another way, I think most people I know in the UK would be *freaking the fuck out* and refusing to accept the result if the referendum was about reproductive rights and abortion had been banned in the UK.
Instead, we banned foreigners, and somehow that's OK.
Instead, we banned foreigners, and somehow that's OK.
