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‘Two-tier’: UK treats far-right attacks less harshly than Islamist violence, says thinktank
(www.theguardian.com)
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Putting the Tories aside for a second, is it your logic that nobody is allowed to be concerned about immigration 🤔? Because "racist dog whistling" is a strong phrase to use to cover a very wide and complex topic.
Immigration is benefiting the UK so no, there is no reason to be "concerned". I accept that there may be very specific situations for certain groups, but it is still benefiting the public as a whole.
Unless someone "concerned about immigration" is also concerned about too many white babies being born, they are a racist.
Oh I do agree immigration on the whole is a benefit to the UK, yes. Of course, I mean you only have to look around and see what immigrants are doing to help our public services for a start.
However I don't agree that having concerns equates to being a racist. That's a rather large leap that I don't think is fair. You should be allowed to question policies and express concerns without being shouted down as a racist. Of course, you don't have to be right in your concerns. And I'm sure a lot of these concerns are baseless. But shouldn't we be able to explain and discuss that with people without jumping to extremes?
big "i'm just asking questions" energy
this is just borderline sealioning
Mate what are you on about? Do you have something constructive to add? Or just internet memes?
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