• @wolfylow@lemmy.world
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    499 months ago

    I think this is what happens when mainstream political parties legitimise this kind of anti-immigrant rhetoric.

    Everyone is pointing at social media, what about Sunak/Braverman/Patel? Not to mention the odious Farage.

    I lay a lot of the blame at their feet.

    And also - I realise it makes no sense (the perpetrator is British born!) but as has so often been said: You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. So yeah, here we are. Madness.

  • @FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    I still remember what my grandfather who fought in WW2 told me: “You don’t speak to nazis. You shoot nazis.”

    Times have changed, so I would be entirely happy with all the Nazis deported to Rwanda.

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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    89 months ago

    It’s bad faith. Mentioning facts to them is pointless, this is the result of allowing these assholes to recruit and organize for years.

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    • @Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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      239 months ago

      These far right roots are rioting because of bullshit. The murderer wasn’t Muslim but the fascists still used that fake pretext to stir up trouble.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      219 months ago

      This was absolutely born out of of racism and propaganda. The guy who did it is from Wales. They rioted because they were told he was an immigrant.

      And yes there are bad parts in any city that harass women. That’s why they prefer the bear. It has nothing to do with being an immigrant or not.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          Sure, but one terrorist attack does not justify another. And crime stats just don’t support this idea of immigrant criminality.

    • @gmtom@lemmy.world
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      199 months ago

      There were neighborhoods in cities in both of these countries that if you’re a non Muslim or if you don’t follow the strict rules like women wearing headscarves, you get harassed and attacked.

      No there isn’t. This is just daily mail nonsense.

      Source: I’m visibly gay and live in one of these famous “no go areas”

    • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      189 months ago

      There were neighborhoods in cities in both of these countries that if you’re a non Muslim or if you don’t follow the strict rules like women wearing headscarves, you get harassed and attacked.

      Name the cities and neighborhoods or you’re lying. It’s possible someone mislead you, but if you repeat it without verification you’re still lying.

      This is like the thing conservatives said about “cities burning to the ground” because of BLM. Whenever you looked into it, it was some rando not associated with any group. Or possibly a right-wing agitator.

      Stop repeating the game of telephone. You can literally go to Saudi Arabia without wearing a headscarf. You think Paris is going to be stricter?

    • @saltesc@lemmy.world
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      109 months ago

      I think it’s fine to be pissed off about any religion, especially if it’s bringing harm and unrest to a community/culture. Historically kind of religion’s thing…

      But the second anyone brings ethnicity into it…

    • @AWittyUsername@lemmy.world
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      69 months ago

      It’s thin air and racism. To argue other than that is ignorance and racism. Attacking innocent people no matter what you think a select few from their community do is racism.

  • Cam
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    -539 months ago

    The police should be worried about them “fiery but mostly peaceful protestors”, not anything that is labelled as “right wing”.

    • @Why9@lemmy.world
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      269 months ago

      Ok, let’s compare, shall we?

      Millions of people out protesting over the murder of thousands of children in Gaza, and protesting the UK’s complicity in those crimes by directly sending weapons to Israel. No crimes committed, no riots, no disorder. There were a couple who held up flags and inflammatory symbols or shouted crude slogans and they went peacefully when they were arrested.

      Thousands of children murdered, peaceful protest.

      In contrast, a far-right counter protest against the Palestine march in London ends with the thugs clashing with police, being violent and causing damage https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-far-right-football-hooligans-blamed-violence-pro-palestinian-march-london/

      Recently, 3 girls brutally and abhorrently murdered in Southport, but EDL thugs who honestly couldn’t care less about the victims and just wanted a scrap, took to the streets and torched police vehicles, injured many offers. The perpetrator ended up being a Christian, and yet the EDL mob went and targeted a mosque.

      3 children murdered, outright anarchy.

      EDL have proven that they’re just in it for the fight. They just want blood and they don’t care what the trigger is. Absolutely pathetic. They piss about in school, get bugger all in the way of grades and end up at the building site, blaming immigrants for their troubles. Spineless knobgobblers, the lot of them.

  • Ogmios
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    -749 months ago

    Really? It’s the far right they’re worried about?

  • @fart_pickle@lemmy.world
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    -749 months ago

    It’s funny how indigenous population who’s scared about their wellbeing is called “far-right”. Focus on stabbings, rapes and other pressing issues.

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      indigenous population

      Which ones are indigenous, the ones that came over with the Celts, the ones that came over with the Romans, the ones that came over with the Angles and Saxons, the ones that came over with the Norman French… or are we talking about the hunter-gatherers displaced by the Celts here? Do we need to test some DNA?

    • @chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      149 months ago

      When you’re goose-stepping around town, do you have to keep a mouth guard just in your mouth the whole time, or do you discretely pocket it until the day inevitably turns on you? I’ve always wanted to know and never got to talk to an actual out-and-out fascist before. Ya know, you suspect some people, but you’re just brave enough to come out and say it.

      But seriously, leave lemmy and don’t come back. Thanks!

    • @Why9@lemmy.world
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      129 months ago

      Indigenous population scared about their wellbeing? Wellbeing from what? What possible threat has the indigenous population faced recently that you need to be all up in arms about it?

      This is a report on Gov.uk

      In 2022/23, white individuals accounted for 78% of arrests, 8% were of black individuals, 8% were of Asian individuals, 4% were of mixed ethnicity individuals and 2% were of other ethnicity individuals

      In 2022, 77% of all males prosecuted for indictable offences were from the white ethnic group, compared to 86% of all females prosecuted

      Since 2018, white defendants have had a consistently lower average custodial sentence length (ASCL) than all other ethnic groups combined for indictable offences.

      Black prisoners served the greatest proportion of their original sentence in custody.

      What is your point? What are you up in arms about exactly?

        • @sazey@lemmy.world
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          What are you pointing to exactly in that lengthy report pal? Graphic below seems pretty much on par with what person previous to you was saying.

          • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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            29 months ago

            Compare, say, convictions by race to population by race. When 3% of the population is black and 10%of the convictions are black people, there’s an odd disparity. Now, a number of things could be happening there. Maybe black people are committing 3 times more crime than the population average. Maybe cops are charging black people more for a given crime than other races. Maybe black people are disadvantaged in some other way that’s causing more crime than the average. The chart doesn’t really say, and I’m not interested in doing a deep sociopolitical dive to have an idea why.

            There are certainly issues with cultural beliefs causing crime which really can’t be ignored. Honor killings, where, for instance, a woman is killed because getting raped brings dishonor to the family and killing her somehow restores it, will increase crime rates on a purely cultural basis. But this chart isn’t going to show that, either. My Caribbean friend and my Nigerian friend have very different opinions on certain subjects, because culture doesn’t necessarily follow skin color.

            • @sazey@lemmy.world
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              19 months ago

              Very well put, no idea why you’re getting downvoted. Probably offended someone’s sensibility because you didn’t worship at the alter of immigration and diversity. But latest research apparently shows we just may be able to acknowledge culture specific issues without giving into racist twattery. Sounds far fetched to me but I like to keep an open mind.