It’s not misplaced. Let’s talk again next time someone shouts at you to “fuck off back to your country” in middle of street in a UK city.https://twitter.com/simonmagus/status/926411564764233728 …
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Replying to @cliodiaspora
Happened to me too: "fuck off back to Poland". I mean I've never been there but I know what they meant. I was talking to a friend in Greek.
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Replying to @o_guest @cliodiaspora
But to be 100% clear this was a decade ago. Way before Brexit.
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Replying to @o_guest
Undoubtedly such things have always happened. But for me personally never ever before Brexit and with perfect regularity now.
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Replying to @cliodiaspora
Yes, after Brexit significantly more white skinned Northern/Central European people have been targeted. Depressing stuff that the racism is
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Replying to @o_guest @cliodiaspora
affecting white skinned people, because it's getting more and more out of hand. Black and brown people should have been listened to before
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Replying to @o_guest @cliodiaspora
Xenophobia/racism towards white people in the UK is not new (nor newish). There are long (& recent) anti-Semitic & anti-Irish "traditions".
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Totally agreed. What is new is what I tried to get at that people like Tanja are seeing it for the first time.
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