1. Percepciones del aumento del racismo.
Muchos usuarios expresan la creencia de que el racismo se ha vuelto más frecuente y visible en el Reino Unido en los últimos años.
- I worry that so many brits are racist.
- Open, explicit racism seems to be on the rise in britain.
- The levels of racism in the uk now is off the charts.
- Racism in the uk is running rampant at the minute and its so disheartening.
2. Brexit como catalizador.
Brexit se identifica frecuentemente como un evento que ha exacerbado o revelado tendencias racistas preexistentes.
- Sadly, it is about race... Brexit, the far right, farage and the tories have accelerated it even more.
- In the uk it feels as if brexit was the catalyst for how it is now.
- Racism got us brexit, and now racism will get us a fucking utterly shite govt.
- Brexit has encouraged and emboldened them to believe that racism is acceptable.
3. Manifestaciones y alcance del racismo.
El racismo se describe como dirigido a diversas comunidades minoritarias y manifestándose de diferentes maneras, desde insultos hasta políticas gubernamentales.
- Racism in the uk. Theres a lot of it. It is focused on all minority communities. And it is always utterly vile.
- What were seeing in the uk predominantly england today is simply thinly-veiled racism dressed up as patriotism.
- Racism pure and simple. Anybody who isnt white is now being targeted, irrespective of how many generations their families have lived here.
- Ive experienced more racism in the last 12 months than the rest of my life put together.
4. Papel de los políticos y los medios.
Se critica a los políticos y a los medios de comunicación por exacerbar el racismo a través de su retórica y cobertura.
- Msm are pushing racism.
- Mainstream politicians and its fucking disgusting.
- Every news bulletin is drip-feeding racism into public discourse, with dissenting voices seldom given airtime.
- Politicians and journalists have a moral duty to challenge racism.
5. Consecuencias y respuestas.
Algunos individuos están considerando abandonar el Reino Unido debido al racismo, mientras que otros enfatizan la necesidad de confrontar y derrotar el racismo.
- I know so many black and asian brits making plans to either leave the country or leaving in an emergency if they have to.
- Racism alive and thriving in britain. We defeated it before and we will more than defeat it this time.
- Decent people of whatever background in the u.k. Need to ensure that this racism doesnt occur here.
- We need to collectively assert that racism is always unacceptable.