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In reply to the discussion: so my Portuguese friend was accosted in a coffee shop this morning [View all]Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)20. London & Oxford
A week there, and then we are going for a week over to Dublin.
I am more worried for folks who live there, but this did give me pause. Though it's not like we don't have bad shit here too, the white supremacist riots a couple of days ago where 5 people got stabbed is only a couple hours from where I live.
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so my Portuguese friend was accosted in a coffee shop this morning [View all]
PaulaFarrell
Jun 2016
OP
I hope your friend is okay. I have been reading a number of stories of non-anglos being attacked
niyad
Jun 2016
#2
This American woman had a similar experience, came up with an interesting campaign:
auntpurl
Jun 2016
#37
Trump gets a lot of passes and excuses made for his voters too. The denial is deep
Person 2713
Jun 2016
#3
Anecdotes certainly prove that there is no other reason behind the BREXIT votes...
Human101948
Jun 2016
#5
There can be more than one fucking reason for people voting leave. Claiming that xenophobia
Chakab
Jun 2016
#19
The heads of the leave campaign exploited concerns about economic insecurity and systemic equality
Chakab
Jun 2016
#22
Even the anger over the consequences of neoliberal policies gets directed toward
tblue37
Jun 2016
#35
"A few people here believe that you can't reduce Brexit to nothing "but" racism and xenophobia."
Denzil_DC
Jun 2016
#18
These are the two cities that I know best; and I think there's very little chance of problems
LeftishBrit
Jun 2016
#43