So morning musings.
Back in 2016 (yeah that long ago) the UK held a referendum on staying in the EU. On Friday they overwhelmingly voted in the Tories who unleashed this mess due to party infighting.
They also unleashed the racists and emboldened them. Unfortunately this win has just emboldened them even more. They feel even more justification for their beliefs.
I already have stories of people getting, for lack of a better term, harassed by their neighbours for being 'foreign'. Even going so far to knock on their doors and tell them that now that the conservatives have won, "So we won't have to put up with you much longer". This was said to an Asian person born and raised in the UK. Though this is disgusting, it's fairly mild to what I'm expecting some people will get. What makes this all the more confusing is that this person being in the UK has absolutely nothing to do with the EU or even present immigration policy. I'm not entirely sure where they're getting their information from but there is nothing that's been said they're going to kick all the foreigners out, but they seem to think this is going to happen.
Not forgetting what that would do to the economy, hospitals, etc.
Ever since the referendum there's been this identity politics playing out and a overwhelming nationalism running rampant through the UK, though mostly in the North. Both are very dangerous and are really just plain silly.
There is no such thing as a True British person. Everyone in Europe are mongrels. Everyone everywhere is basically the same. What makes you anything is purely culturally based. Nothing more. Skin colour, height, eye colour, etc mean absolutely nothing in this context.
I'll never understand racism and I'll never understand nationalism either. I get where both come from but as humans we should be far beyond this now, like many other things. But such is life when you have a slightly more complex monkey brain than your closest relative.
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