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Who/what are racists according to UK protests? Why are they protesting?

I don’t know shit about politics. All I know is that in the UK the Labour party won, and the Conservative party lost.

I read some protestors are protesting against racism. What is this about? Protesting against new party that just won? I thought the Labour party was left-wing, meaning they are more on the social-equality side? I’m lost.

Ziggurat ,

There was huge riots against alleged immigrants and alleged muslim. Protests are about Racism is evil, rioters are assholes

Dasnap , (edited )
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I read some protestors are protesting against racism.

There have been counter-protests which have vastly outnumbered the supremacist protest. It’s great to see.

Basically this was triggered by a false rumor that recent child murders were committed by a Muslim immigrant, where in reality they were an unstable 1st generation (so fully UK born and raised) and from a Christian family. It was basically the tipping point for a lot of pent-up racists. A former MI6 agent has pretty much confirmed this rumor was probably started by a propaganda group, likely Russian, and likely a response to a more left-leaning political party recently being voted into No. 10.

breadsmasher ,
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Weirdos whipped up into a frenzy about “forriners stealing benefits” by farage and his far right party

ed. Asylum seekers in hotels etc have been here for years, well before the new government came in. Its only since labour came into power the far right have decided to be violent. At no point did they ever care, until labour won and farage didn’t get seated. weirdo musko has also been posting a lot of hate speech and bullshit, which foments further anger and violence.

Anecdotally from some article I read, on average the protesters are 40+ year old white men who you would find in wetherspoons 6 pints in on a wednesday morning

MrsDoyle ,

Anecdotally from some article I read, on average the protesters are 40+ year old white men who you would find in wetherspoons 6 pints in on a wednesday morning

Was this the article? theguardian.com/…/rioter-southport-jailed-far-rig…

I looked at the photos and thought, what a bunch of losers. Read the article and sure enough, losers.

jimmydoreisalefty ,
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Edit: improved wording, a bit

The Labour Party is “left-wing,” as in that they are similar to the Democrats being “left,” but in reality they are republican-lites (conservative-lite).

George Galloway talks about the race riots: lemmy.world/post/18407870

rah ,

They seem to not want immigrants. And I suspect “immigrant” means “doesn’t look like me”. In other words, it’s just " they took are jerbs!"

The make-up and mindset of the citizenry doesn’t change just because the government changes.

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