Tag: casual racism: a british tradition

bearymcbearface:

karoliciousbanberry:

bree-3po:

desbreaux:

I don’t get why people hate immigrants so much… Like they’re literally just… People… From another location….

My partner is an immigrant from the UK and still holds his citizenship. At a recent event, an acquaintance talked about how many “immigrants” get jobs over “Canadians” and they shouldn’t allowed to be management (which my partner is). My partner reaches across the table and goes “Hi, immigrant here!” and she goes “Oh I didn’t mean immigrants like you…” And you can so tell they just mean “brown people” or “Asian people” but they pretend it’s about jobs and shit.

That’s the same with my family. We were war immigrants from the soviet union and now live in Germany. Now the syrians are here because they also have war, and people keep asking me why I’m defending them so mercilessly. And when I tell them that my family (that is still alive) has gone through the same bullshit. But they insist that both scenarios are completely different. They’re not different, you’re just racist.

THEY’RE NOT DIFFERENT. YOU’RE JUST RACIST.

I’m a New Zealander in the UK and one of my bosses is South African. Someone in the lunchroom was ranting about ‘immigrants’ and I was like ‘um, I’m an immigrant, so is he,’ and they were like, ‘oh but you’re the RIGHT type of immigrants’, and I replied, ‘what, white?’ and they shut up.

blackdalek:

clehame:

feistyfeather:

mimporte-pas:

nurealis:

feistyfeather:

You may be bitter, but don’t call the England team or players colonisers thanks

Fam, the English football team literally had an ad for the World Cup saying “empires can be rebuilt”. If you glorify your racist, violent, exploitive history, you’re gonna be called out lmaoooo

Link to the ad: https://youtu.be/8Jm9Qax6Rpg

Damn colonizers colonize and then cry when we call them out.

I’ve already said this, but the colonisation was ages[centuries] ago so you’re not really “calling us out” when we, the modern English, did not do it

……India gained its independence in the 1940s. The british empire only officially ended in 1997 when Hong Kong was transferred to China. Colonialism was less than a century ago, it’s not just the act of conquering colonies but also the act of owning and subjugating them while denying conquered peoples their independence

and like i saw english people reblogging a post comparing brazilians with drug dealers, like its something new. peoples been racist like that for a long time