I'm so sick of reading and talking about Brexit, but I'm going to explode if I don't say this again. I moved to the UK in 2006 from a country which had just joined the EU 2 years earlier. I was shocked by the negative press, Euroscepticism, based on demonstrable untruths.
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I had Nigel Farage on my radar as a fascist from the get go. I recall his tiny little UKIP aeroplane crashing and his sad face. I recall thinking I didn't want him to die but I did want what he represented to stop. I knew it wouldn't because almost all were in denial.
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This all happened because of racism bubbling up and never being addressed. It's not a coincidence at all when I first moved to the UK the first question a stranger ever asked me was to verify I was not Muslim. It's not a coincidence when as a 2nd year undergrad showing freshers
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around some kids on bikes made up a song and chanted it at us about "Chinamen" because we were a group of mostly Singaporeans. Anybody who claims anti-EU sentiment isn't linked to racism about immigrants from outside the EU, especially ones other EU countries take on is wrong.
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Anybody who claims anti-EU sentiment isn't linked to being racist about Turkey being on a very slow trajectory to joining is wrong. Anybody who claims anti-EU sentiment started with the EU referendum is wrong. I'm so exhausted reading the most clueless takes. Listen to PoC.
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