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Hate crime reports up 57% since brexit
big brother 9
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http://news.sky.com/story/1718374/hate-crime-reports-up-57-percent-in-brexit-aftermath
Bloody pathetic.
Had the brexit results gone the opposite way the increase ( which I massively doubt are true) woukd have been blamed on england being at the euros.
It's such a ridiculous smear campaign.
Bloody pathetic.
Had the brexit results gone the opposite way the increase ( which I massively doubt are true) woukd have been blamed on england being at the euros.
It's such a ridiculous smear campaign.
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Anti-Semitic crimes have been on the increase for years and increased by 60% in London last year. Not much a mention of though. It must be Brexit to blame.
Clearly anyone found to be doing these thing's should be punished.
Many people who are non white to look at , also voted to leave the EU. A few of them were politicians too. Luckily, for the overwhelming majority of people. Wanting more control over immigration 'numbers'. Has nothing what so ever to do with what colour someone is.
What I find really interesting is that in numerous racism threads on DS over the years there have been posts along the lines of "there's no racism, it's all in their heads, they have a chip on their shoulder, people can't say anything anymore without being racists" etc etc and now that we have some real cases of racism suddenly "well there's been racists all along, racism happens everyday" etc etc
Probably wishful thinking? It isn't nice, it's embarrassing and in some areas is making people look like a bunch of stereotypes.
There is also the possibility of feeling some kind of responsibility, one person I know feels they have "sanctioned it", which of course they haven't.
So I do understand why some people may want to deny its happening or play it down.
It's all pathetic. Still a very small minority though.
Of course it's always possible that it's a form of confirmation bias. Some people are more sensitive of reports of "racism" because they play into the narrative they want to confirm. Such reports get circulated more than usual and, just like that, there's an outbreak of racism.
Course an increase of 57% without knowing the actual figures looks like a big number. In context it could be less than 10 actual incidents. Beware of statistics.
Absolutely, there is no excuse for racism.
Nor should it be linked to anything (football suffered at the hands of racists, not fans), just dealt with toughly.
It's wrong to make everyone that voted leave feel they caused this.
They were speaking Welsh and got accosted by a furious middle-aged man telling them "We voted you out! [illogical] so you'd better start speaking English or you'll be sent home"
All the way to Cardiff?!!
Then I hope the police have been notified of that, doesn't mean an increase of racism and xenophobia hasn't occurred.
It could play a role in perception, but it's definitely much higher than in the 10's.
I never suggested it did but things such as that appear to have been ignored. it wasn't what you had in mind when you saw the thread title was it?
No, but people have made it all too easy to see it one way I'm afraid. Now it's been drawn to my attention, I agree, it's totally unacceptable.
It's absolutely ridiculous..
What a thick moron that idiot abusing your friend was.
Who are these hideous bigots now crawling out of the woodwork?
Why do I need to do better than what I've said? Give you a detailed documentary, get eye witness records from friends? Don't be a disingenuous fool, I mean exactly what I said. If you want to plug your fingers in your ears and pretend it's not happening then you go ahead and do that, doesn't mean it's not happening.
Anyway, to answer your question
I haven't witnessed anyone first hand in real life. I've seen abuse hurled at migrants living in our community, people on our regions Facebook pages calling for people to be booted out, a few even going so far as to call for people to get out on the streets and "clean up", people from Boston calling Eastern Europeans scum, had someone barge into a discussion with a local Eastern European telling and telling them that they need to get out of the country, some friends have witnessed people doing much the same in real life too. Also there has been stuff in the local news too.
But you continue pretending that it isn't happening and it's all people making stuff up on Twitter if it makes you feel better.
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That's all you needed to say.
Of course it is, ignore the rest then or does harassment online not count, and I'm pretty sure whether people I know are reliable or not.
No doubt there has been some but so far most have been anecdotal via facebook and I note we've had a couple here in this thread.