Racist incidents on the rise?

laughing gravy said:
i get out and about quiet a lot thankyou very much i live in wigan and can honestly say i have never heard any body being racially abused myself,saying that i am not saying it does not happen, btw my name is laughing gravy!!
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You also think Asian people are "proud to be yellow", so maybe you just aren't great at noticing racism?
 
Zuriblue said:
Pinned to the door of the Polish community centre in Llanelli this morning. Absolutely no problem with Poles, they work bloody hard, they've been here for yonks and they did a lot to help save our bacon in WW2.

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I remember a few years ago when the BNP went on one of their numerous racist rants to illustrate their "Britishness" they posted a picture of a Spitfire. What they had missed was that the Spitfire in the photo was flown by a Polish squadron.
 
laughing gravy said:
i'm not saying for one minute that there are no racists in britain,but we have to take what is wrote in the media with a pinch of salt,unless you hear it first hand,because it could easily be rumours spread my someone wanting to remain in,i am dubios that because we voted out that suddenly all racist have raised their heads why wait till now,are you saying if the out vote lost these racists would have kept their mouths shut,what about the racists who scrike evertime they see a st georges flag? i never read about them,or do only white racist's count,i saw a post on facebook once which said

i'm proud to be black said the african,im proud to be yellow said the asian,im proud to be white said the racist! makes you think dont it?
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Why was the Asian proud to have jaundice? Its a terrible illness
 
laughing gravy said:
i get out and about quiet a lot thankyou very much i live in wigan and can honestly say i have never heard any body being racially abused myself,saying that i am not saying it does not happen, btw my name is laughing gravy!!
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I know, you're saying that we should take media reports with a pinch of salt, implying that these incidents haven't happened.
And i'm sorry but i don't believe your claim that you've never heard racist abuse in Wigan.
Come out for a pint with me tomorrow affy and i guarantee you will hear racist abuse by the time you've drank your first pint. I live about 15 miles from Wigan.
 
stonerblue said:
I know, you're saying that we should take media reports with a pinch of salt, implying that these incidents haven't happened.
And i'm sorry but i don't believe your claim that you've never heard racist abuse in Wigan.
Come out for a pint with me tomorrow affy and i guarantee you will hear racist abuse by the time you've drank your first pint. I live about 15 miles from Wigan.
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You need to hang out in nicer places then
 
laserblue said:
Not according to the National Police Chief's Council who say that there's been a 57% increase in incidents of hate crime since the Brexit vote.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...sm-reports-eu-referendum-latest-a7106116.html
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That was a national figure. The actual number of reported incidents in the reporting period increased to over 100 which means the number previously was around 70. The increase is therefore 30 to 50 incidents. There are 45 police forces in the UK so it's an average increase of 1 per police force which is not really measurable hence the GMP statement.

Edit: Having now looked at your link, the increase was 31 incidents which is less than one per police force.
 
west didsblue said:
That was a national figure. The actual number of reported incidents in the reporting period increased to over 100 which means the number previously was around 70. The increase is therefore 30 to 50 incidents. There are 45 police forces in the UK so it's an average increase of 1 per police force which is not really measurable hence the GMP statement.

Edit: Having now looked at your link, the increase was 31 incidents which is less than one per police force.
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I think one of the perils of social media and everyone having camera phones are instances like this.
 
Common sense would suggest that this result would probably empower people with racist views to feel they are more acceptable to air publicly, not make people more racist. I think most of us are fully aware that there are a lot of people with pretty bigoted views out there, but the important thing is that they don't become acceptable.
 
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