Originally Posted by molliepops:
“And that is why a lot of young people are scared to say they too bored out, oddly all the Indian and Pakistanis I know did too so obviously bigoted oh wait ..... Nope makes no sense at all calling everyone who voted leave bigoted but it's probably what Matthew thinks too.”
According the Lord Ashcroft polling questions a third of Asians voted to leave, a quarter of black people voted to leave.
The number one reason why people vote to leave was that decisions about the UK should be made in the UK.
The second reason was to control immigration and its borders.
The third reason was that remaining meant no choice about how the EU expanded it's membership or powers.
But you still get many on social media and in the media in general insisting that it was because people are xenophobic or racist. That's what they want to boil it down to.
This is where most of the divisiveness I see is coming from. You will get racists, we've always had them, but the people accusing others of racism when it's unfounded is just as bad and just as irresponsible when it comes to dividing people and reinforcing negative feelings between people.
Interestingly when I watched the referendum coverage on the night on ITV one of the reporters on location said that some of the people he spoke to told him that they were sick of celebrities preaching to them what to do.