Brexit: Increase in racist attacks after EU referendum
Britain “will not tolerate intolerance”, the office of Prime Minister David Cameron has said, after a series of racist incidents were reported following its decision to leave the European Union. Number 10 Downing Street came out on Monday with the warning, less than a week after the country voted to leave the EU in a referendum.…
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Mike June 28th, 2016 at 08:03
50 years of civil rights advances torn down in but a year by 2 racists (Trump and Farage)
Of course they are they spawn of 2 countries that have for years invaded, colonized, tortured, used, and subjugated, other countries and people throughout history….
Raul Gomez June 28th, 2016 at 08:41
In case people don’t know, the UK’s violent crime rate is like 5 or 6 times higher than in the US. They will beat, stab or eat you to death quicker than it takes Sinead O’Connor to do her hair in the morning,
OldLefty June 28th, 2016 at 08:46
Social media post says U.K. has far higher violent crime rate than U.S. does
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jun/24/blog-posting/social-media-post-says-uk-has-far-higher-violent-c/
eyelashviper June 28th, 2016 at 09:38
Thank you, very important facts about how “violent crimes” are defined in the US and the UK, so the “stats” do not really indicate that the UK is more violent or dangerous at all.
OldLefty June 28th, 2016 at 09:47
;-}
Raul Gomez June 28th, 2016 at 23:49
You can dumb yourself down all you want too.
OldLefty June 29th, 2016 at 06:27
As you clearly demonstrate?
Candide Gunn June 28th, 2016 at 08:55
hahaha Sinead O’Conner
oldfart June 28th, 2016 at 09:32
Well, now I have seen everything…
a right leaner, sopposed hispanic, xenophobe living in the USA
telling me to fear the UK because it’s far more dangerous there.
Raul Gomez June 28th, 2016 at 23:47
The UK is very Xenophobic too after the big Brexit VOTE. Glad they have finally smartened up!!!
oldfart June 29th, 2016 at 08:04
A juzgar por su historial de comentario, las probabilidades de ser realmente hispanos tienen más probabilidades como mi teniendo una bandera confederada ondeando en mi patio.
…But hey, it’s the internet so…whatever floats your boat.
eyelashviper June 28th, 2016 at 09:49
Read below, link showing that this is not the case at all. The definition of “violent crimes” differs greatly between the US and the UK, so the statistical comparison is invalid. If the UK definition were used here, we would be far ahead of them in crime stats.
Raul Gomez June 28th, 2016 at 23:48
You can dumb yourself down all you want.
labman57 June 28th, 2016 at 09:32
Hardly shocking, as the primary motivation of Brexit is “selective xenophobia”.
mea_mark June 28th, 2016 at 09:41
There is a lot more to the Brexit than that. To think otherwise is very dangerous. A good article about what it is and the dangers of thinking it is about xenophobia or racism … https://theintercept.com/2016/06/25/brexit-is-only-the-latest-proof-of-the-insularity-and-failure-of-western-establishment-institutions/ It is really is a must read, if you want to understand what is happeneing.
eyelashviper June 28th, 2016 at 09:48
True that the issues are very complex, but sadly the Brexit campaign focused on lies, and in fanning the fears of those who have been adversely affected by previous austerity issues, and the immigration boogey man was used to scapegoat and deflect from economic concerns.. Farage lied consistently about the “cure” that Brexit would bring about, and Brits are now gobsmacked with the consequences of their votes.
mea_mark June 28th, 2016 at 10:11
I don’t think what Farage said was really all that influential in the vote. People are angry about inequality and that is/was the biggest determining factor. There are simply more poor people suffering than rich people not suffering. When people are angry they will look for ways to vent their anger. Brexit is a venting of anger, mainly at the oligarchy and the rich.
eyelashviper June 28th, 2016 at 10:17
The ads run by the right wing in Britain were geared toward fear of immigrants, and recent upticking of attacks on them is alarming.
I realize it is anecdotal, but friends of mine in England have been very concerned about the racist and ugly rhetoric that really revved up during the Brexit campaign.
Just like here, it is easy to play on the anger of people who are feeling stressed and left out of the process by focusing upon “others” to blame. It is a tactic as old as mankind.
mea_mark June 28th, 2016 at 10:21
People in England should be concerned about inequality. Most of the problems they are seeing stem from that. Take care of inequality and most of the problems will start to go away.
eyelashviper June 28th, 2016 at 10:25
Well, when you have a cabal of right wingers who want to undo basic systems that provide services, economic opportunities, education, etc., it makes it kind of difficult to solve problems of “inequality”
We have the very same issues here, Gopers obstructing every possible cause, program, idea, or whatever that provides education, jobs, and well being for the citizens.
Mike June 28th, 2016 at 11:01
The argument is circular in that while all that (the linked article)might be true, the driving force behind the leave campaign was to blame immigrants and foreigners for their own missteps…it’s right out of the Hitler playbook…The Germans scapegoated the Jews in the same manner just like manifest destiny landed square on the heads of Native people all over the world.
The UK will now be a weakened shell of what it was, more dependent on the US and EU than ever before….
There is strength in unity, not division. JMO of course
mea_mark June 28th, 2016 at 12:13
Some additional info …
The neoliberal prison
The Brexit vote is a huge challenge to the left to face facts. We want to believe we are free but the truth is that we have long been in a prison called neoliberalism. The Conservative and Labour parties are tied umbilically to this neoliberal order. The EU is one key institution in a transnational neoliberal club. Our economy is structured to enforce neoliberalism whoever ostensibly runs the country.
That is why the debate about Brexit was never about values or principles – it was about money. It still is. The Remainers are talking only about the threat to their pensions. The Brexiters are talking only about the role of immigrants in driving down wages. And there is good reason: because the EU is part of the walls of the economic prison that has been constructed all around us. Our lives are now only about money, as the gargantuan bail-outs of the too-big-to-fail banks should have shown us.
There is a key difference between the two sides. Most Remainers want to pretend that the prison does not exist because they still get privileges to visit the living areas. The Brexiters cannot forget it exists because they are never allowed to leave their small cells.
The left cannot call itself a left and keep whingeing about its lost privileges while denouncing those trapped inside their cells as “racists”. Change requires that we first recognise our situation – and then have the will to struggle for something better.
from … http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/28/the-neoliberal-prison-brexit-hysteria-and-the-liberal-mind/
Interesting article in all, but this last part in the end was most pertinent.
Mike June 28th, 2016 at 12:37
Honestly, it sounds to me like TeaBaggers railing against the one world order…virtually every topic was selected because of it’s negativity factor…There’s a lot wrong with the EU, but there’s even more that Right.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that all this discourse back and forth between you (an obviously intelligent person)and I is nothing at all what the masses (mostly idiots) are thinking.
These National Front or Country First movements have nothing to do with achievement or merit but rather a very select us verses an extremely arbitrary them
Snick1946 June 28th, 2016 at 10:48
Like most Americans I’ve always had the impression of the UK as a civilized place. Now I wonder. Try going to YouTube and searching for videos of ‘Angry Racists’. A lot of them are posted from the UK
amersham1046 June 28th, 2016 at 14:22
But they are not walking around with AR15s , protecting the American way