First poll:
When things start to get dumb:
More jokes:
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...le-do-not-face-more-discrimination?CMP=twt_gu
This shit would be funny if it wasn't so fucked up
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Up to 40% of Britons think BAME people do not face more discrimination
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First poll:
When things start to get dumb:
More jokes:
For another joke:
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...le-do-not-face-more-discrimination?CMP=twt_gu
This shit would be funny if it wasn't so fucked up
With all the out of touch Europeans on this site that claim racism is a unique American tradition, I'm not even slightly surprised lol.
Not surprised, my colleague who is white is so shocked when I tell him how things are for minorities.
Now that's fucking ridiculous. If I'm not speaking to you why should it matter? the whole world doesn't revolve around you. Bunch of snowflakes.
Now that's fucking ridiculous. If I'm not speaking to you why should it matter? the whole world doesn't revolve around you. Bunch of snowflakes.
Europe isn't a country, mate. Racism isn't a chance to point score because you get upset when your country is criticised. I do wish we could have one thread dealing with these issues without Americans doing shit like this.
Beefy , none of that OP surprises me. Honestly, I think it's because we all see the crazy American shit where half the country will defend you if you shoot a black kid walking home with skittles. The more insipid and hidden aspects of racism seem mundane by comparison so they don't get reported and when they don't get reported people know fuck all about it.
Agreed, in Britain it's way more insidious. I don't know how to explain America, it's beyond a joke over there.
Technically, that isn't racist. Maybe they are bothered when people of their race talk in other language than English!
/reaching
Pretty pathetic to use this as some point scoring exercise, especially given how awful America is right now for this sort of subject.
Europe is a huge place with differing attitudes and cultures from country to country so you can't really compare somewhere like that as a whole with America.
Never said it was a country, nor did I imply it was, yet I'm sure Europeans will come in here and downplay their historical racism some more by pretending it's only the UK lol.
Why would I be upset America is criticized for racism? I'm black. You don't know what you're talking about.
Also, thanks for proving my point.
Definitely puts the oft racial ignorance/superiority tone from some Euro posters in better context.
Lol. America is similarly huge with a melting pot of cultures, but continue, please.
Why do y'all think I'm scoring points? As far as I'm concerned, most, if not all majority white countries are demonstrably racist. I just find it funny y'all think your racism is somehow less bad than America's because y'all are nicer about it.
I remember Totalbiscuit saying that white privilege didn't exist in the UK because he came from a coal mining town. I'm not surprised that a lot of daft British people think racism is just a US phenomenon
Lolwat? If anything, racism is far worse in working class communities...
Not surprised in the slightest - probably a substantial overlap of those who think the country isn't racist with those who especially are. They just don't think they're racist because oh, it's 'common sense' and they're the real English, not like those fancy London sorts.
The shit some people say when they think there's no minorities in the room...
The shit some people say when they think there's no minorities in the room...
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Generic statistical term for PoC in Britain. Stands for "Black and Ethnic Minority" (albeit out of order")
Not surprised the people polled had disagreements about what racism/discrimination actually is. Way too many people equate racism to actions involving hate, anger, or violence/death towards a different social group while downplaying racist actions where the individuals "meant well" or "didn't mean any harm" or "had no ill intent".
I come from a migrant background and am not white. I stopped off in some little village to get lunch after going to a wedding and I felt like I got hostile treatment from people there. Like a Wild West movie when you enter the saloon and everyone stares at you. So yeah, subtle racism definitely exists here in the UK.
I actually was having a discussion with my British friends on this today (I'm an Indian immigrant in UK) and they basically said while there's some discrimination still, it's not as prevalent and that whites can get discriminated too as there are times when they won't hire a white for a job. To which I explained maybe the job itself needs a non white perspective. And I explained how reverse racism isn't a thing because of white privilege. One of them said, then what about the countries where whites are a minority? To which I said it's different because the west prides itself in being more advanced and multicultural, so it's worse when discrimination happens in the west than when it happens in a supposedly less advanced country, and that the day you can find me a country where whites are a sizeable minority and get discriminated against, like non whites are in western country is the day you can get back to me with that statement.
Infact look at the facts, there were two kinds of colonisation in the past. One where the white europeans colonised to settle which led to native population being eradicated more or less (like USA) and the other where the white europeans colonised only to benefit the homeland but not settle (like India). And it's no wonder that the country where they went to "settle" is the one that ended up being the more developed and advanced compared to the country where they didn't.
Infact look at the facts, there were two kinds of colonisation in the past. One where the white europeans colonised to settle which led to native population being eradicated more or less (like USA) and the other where the white europeans colonised only to benefit the homeland but not settle (like India). And it's no wonder that the country where they went to "settle" is the one that ended up being the more developed and advanced compared to the country where they didn't.
This is an example of how you get people who visit the US for the first time and think they are going to travel from New York to Disney World by Taxi in a few hours.
The US is a huge country made up of 50 states + US territories. States/territories like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Minnesota have just as many "differing attitudes and cultures" as any three European countries you could respond with.
We already knew the UK was racist as fuck though. No matter how much some want to deny it. Poll isn't surprising.
Nah, poshos and middle classes are just as, if not more racist in my experience, just must better disguised.
And you also don't know what you're talking about if you think I'm proving your point. Unless you disagree with my post, in which case I'm more than happy to discuss it.
That's for the contribution and putting some thought into your post, lads. Glad that topics like these are taken seriously and people take the time to shitpost.
Nah, you definitely did. You'll realize it one day, though.
You came in with a shitpost that has ultimately and also due to my frustration at seeing it in all these threads helped to derail the thread, I took issue with this and now you're being criptic.
Or maybe you're suggesting my reason for white British people are blind to the racism in the UK (because they don't see it and it's not reported because our media just reports how bad it is elsewhere) is incorrect. If you do disagree with that, it would be nice to at least have a reason,.
People have got to stop using "shitpost" as a shield for their indefensible positions being chin checked by obvious commentary that they refuse to understand.
I know where he's from and it is definitely a racist area.
Oddly enough it's near where Clinton's grandfather was from.
I'm shitposting because I, as a black man, already knew white people from other countries were racist?
This information is for y'all, not for me, broham.
Check yourself before you embarrass yourself even more.
I'm slightly confused by this, doesn't BAME include also Slavs in example? And much of Slavs are also white. Or aren't they considered as white in the UK?
Edit: Seems like BAME means only non-white people in the UK. I had wrong information before. Weird to have it worded like that if it doesn't include all ethnic minorities.
Edit: Seems like BAME means only non-white people in the UK. I had wrong information before. Weird to have it worded like that if it doesn't include all ethnic minorities.
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Not surprised at the slightest.
Yeah he's wrong, if you're white you're pretty much set as you never have defend the fact that you're British.
Yeah he's wrong, if you're white you're pretty much set as you never have defend the fact that you're British.
Racism against Eastern Europeans is quite a large part of the racist fuckery that goes on in the UK
The amount of hand wringing and bile spewed when our local Tesco had the temerity to add a Polish food aisle was sickening
As a man of slavic descent, it's a weird, nebulous thing. Like, you're generally 'white' until the conversation turns to immigration and actual integration and suddenly your kind is part of the faceless horde that is apparently reason to bail out of the EU, changing the 'character' of whatever part of town the local little Englander is getting nostalgic for. The likes of Nigel Farage's will praise eastern european countries for how they approach the refugee crisis (that is, cruelly and with tints of ethnic nationalism), while being quite serious when saying he would not want a Romanian for a neighbour.
