Current Events > In the UK, we generally have GOOD race relations.

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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:28:37 PM
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People really don't care that much whether you're white or black...or Asian, or Arab, etc. Most people get on. London is a real melting pot, and in other places, people don't care that much.

In America, HOWEVER, horrible things seem to happen all the time with race relations. Why is this?


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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:30:11 PM
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Sunhawk posted...
People really don't care that much whether you're white or black...or Asian, or Arab, etc.
*laughs hysterically*
sure thing m8

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05/08/20 1:30:41 PM
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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:30:59 PM
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I agree, but not too much in Britain.

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05/08/20 1:30:59 PM
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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:31:43 PM
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We had slavery in the UK, as well.

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el_cheato
05/08/20 1:31:48 PM
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idk about that TC I heard you had some Troubles not too long ago

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DarkChozoGhost
05/08/20 1:32:11 PM
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In the UK it's completely ok to make Indian jokes in the office. 2 years ago a high schooler was bullied to suicide over being Polish.

It's not that they're not racist, it's just that people don't consider racist things to be racist.

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Firewerx
05/08/20 1:32:21 PM
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Sunhawk posted...
I agree, but not too much in Britain.
I can tell you it was quite a different story in the Britain of the 1980s.

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Hexenherz
05/08/20 1:32:59 PM
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Is that why everyone hated that a prince married a minority commoner


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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:33:01 PM
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The UK also tried to fucking exterminate Ireland's population and culture

Maybe ask your teachers about Cromwell?

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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:33:17 PM
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I'm not talking about the 1980s, I mean *now*. And the Troubles was mostly in the 1970s, and was between...white people.

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knutjob
05/08/20 1:33:23 PM
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Americans seem really weird about race tbh. Everyone is militant about it one way or the other. In the UK society is much more divided by class
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Squall28
05/08/20 1:33:48 PM
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After my a meal at restaurant there once, the waiter bowed and said alligato. Not sure why they thought I was Japanese.

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knutjob
05/08/20 1:34:21 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Is that why everyone hated that a prince married a minority commoner

The American multi millionaire?
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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:34:47 PM
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DarkChozoGhost posted...
In the UK it's completely ok to make Indian jokes in the office. 2 years ago a high schooler was bullied to suicide over being Polish.

It's not that they're not racist, it's just that people don't consider racist things to be racist.
It's weird here (ireland) and in Britain
People don't actually understand that making fun of people for their race, country, etc can actually be offensive.
Me and Russian Lady used to make fun of one another all the time about how backwards Russia and Ireland is compared to one another but if someone else did it, she'd be offended but she'd be blamed on being the problem. It's not that racism is done out of hate here, it's just casual.

Of course we do have racism done out of hate and it's violent at times too but it's much rarer than the casual "accepted racism"

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Firewerx
05/08/20 1:34:51 PM
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CreepySmile posted...
The UK also tried to fucking exterminate Ireland's population and culture

Maybe ask your teachers about Cromwell?
I think he meant "generally" in the sense of "somewhat more recently than the 1640s".

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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:35:42 PM
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Sunhawk posted...
the Troubles was mostly in the 1970s
A-are you serious sunny?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
try nearly 30 years

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coh
05/08/20 1:36:05 PM
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Sunhawk posted...
People really don't care that much whether you're white or black...or Asian, or Arab, etc. Most people get on.
This is literally true of America too.
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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:36:45 PM
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Firewerx posted...
I think he meant "generally" in the sense of "somewhat more recently than the 1640s".
I just like mentioning that the UK literally tried to eradicate a bunch of fucking farmers (more or less) and couldn't do it
I have no issue with Britain now but I just find it funny, 800 years and it was like "fucking just give the Irish back some land, tell them to fuck off, not worth it"

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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:36:52 PM
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Some of the worst incidents of The Troubles were in the 1970s. It was horrible.

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DarkChozoGhost
05/08/20 1:37:22 PM
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Casual racism is still racism and is still bad in most contexts.

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05/08/20 1:37:42 PM
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Hexenherz
05/08/20 1:37:43 PM
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/01/13/black-mps-complain-mistaken-commons-staff/

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Firewerx
05/08/20 1:38:05 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Is that why everyone hated that a prince married a minority commoner
Point of order: if you think "everyone" here "hated" it, then I don't think you live here.

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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:38:59 PM
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Sunhawk posted...
Some of the worst incidents of The Troubles were in the 1970s. It was horrible.
please stop posting
I know British schools tend to gloss over it a bit and I understand why but please, shut the fuck up.

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monkmith
05/08/20 1:39:15 PM
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keep a stiff upper lip! if you dont acknowledge the racism in your country then it doesn't exist!

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Cobra1010
05/08/20 1:39:51 PM
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In the UK, its alright in the big cities because there large coloured populations there. In the rurals, in more backwater places, you'll find more active racists.

So it surprises me that im seeing a lot of news on racism coming from New York, America.

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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:40:50 PM
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The reason people hate Megan Markle has nothing to do with race. It's because she's obnoxious, worked in Hollywood, has so many stupid problems with her family, and because she had no idea what being in the royal family would be like.

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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:41:48 PM
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I've never need a drink more in my life than reading the sheer amount of fucking ignorance and denial from Sunhawk


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Hexenherz
05/08/20 1:42:14 PM
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Firewerx posted...
Point of order: if you think "everyone" here "hated" it, then I don't think you live here.
Point of order: if you think I mean literally "everyone" you don't understand generalizations.

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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:42:43 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Point of order: if you think I mean literally "everyone" you don't understand generalizations.
Most people were reasonably okay with it.
The problem is tabloids making a fucking scene out of it

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The_Bitcoin
05/08/20 1:45:35 PM
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Sunhawk posted...
People really don't care that much whether you're white or black...or Asian, or Arab, etc. Most people get on. London is a real melting pot, and in other places, people don't care that much.

In America, HOWEVER, horrible things seem to happen all the time with race relations. Why is this?

yeah that is why non-Londoners overwhelmingly decided to leave the EU so you can stop all non-Russian immigration, no matter how bad it will fuck your country up economically, geopolitically and commercially for generations to come.

that is why there was a huge spike in anti-Pole and anti-muslim hate crimes right after the brexit poll.

that is why Theresa may tried to underhandedly deport black british citizens from the windrush generation and then had to backtrack after the public outrage too, right?

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mcpwnia
05/08/20 1:46:32 PM
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Sunhawk posted...
The reason people hate Megan Markle has nothing to do with race. It's because she's obnoxious, worked in Hollywood, has so many stupid problems with her family, and because she had no idea what being in the royal family would be like.
there it is

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Firewerx
05/08/20 1:47:53 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Point of order: if you think I mean literally "everyone" you don't understand generalizations.
Even as a generalization, it's of doubtful accuracy to suggest that many people do. There are certainly some right-wing tabloid journos who've got a bee in their bonnet about her, although that might be due to Harry and Meg's dislike and distrust of the media and daring to call journos out on their shit as much as anything else.

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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:48:25 PM
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Thank you.

The media REALLY do hate her guts, though. I almost feel sorry for her...almost.


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UnfairRepresent
05/08/20 1:48:38 PM
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Topic is bullshit as someone who has lived in both places. Brexit alone demonstrates that. A lot of British people are really xenophobic. 10% of the voting public voted UKIP.

Look at the EDL, the anger towards Polish and Pakistani people. People are stabbing each other every day. People are knowingly pushing minorities to suicide and wanting complete immigration bans. Look at how soccerball fans treat black players.

It's true that the UK doesn't have the weird "The Black people vs the white people" thing the US obsesses over. People like @cjsdowg never come from the UK. But apart fom that, the UK is way more pedjudiced on the whole than the US. The US is a melting pot.

The US isn't shoving foreigners into shitty buildings and setting them on fire.

And this is before you even touch on the fact the UK still refuses to return all the shit they stole from other nations during it's imperial colonization.

I think you're just sheltered TC.
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DeadBankerDream
05/08/20 1:49:14 PM
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It's pretty gross that Sunhawk pretends to be a racist desperately pretending to not be a racist.
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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:50:21 PM
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I remember when someone on CE called me an alt-right nut, because I made fun of Greta Thunberg's braided pony tail.

They were completely serious, too.


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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:50:55 PM
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UR and Sunhawk going to troll one another?

https://i.imgur.com/dB4PYmT.jpg

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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:53:10 PM
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Why is that?

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Sunhawk
05/08/20 1:53:19 PM
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*who

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CreepySmile
05/08/20 1:54:17 PM
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Sunhawk, you give me the urge to drink more than finding out yet another woman I like is gay

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Sunhawk
05/08/20 2:02:19 PM
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CreepySmile posted...
Sunhawk, you give me the urge to drink more than finding out yet another woman I like is gay

They just tell you that so you'll stop talking to them.


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CreepySmile
05/08/20 2:02:51 PM
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Sunhawk posted...
They just tell you that so you'll stop talking to them.
You actually cause me headaches

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Sunhawk
05/08/20 2:03:22 PM
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There are doctors for that.

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Iodine
05/08/20 2:07:26 PM
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According to wiki, as recently as 2001 the United Kingdom was 92% white. You aren't going to get any sizeable amount of bad race relations when there are very few people who are Non-White.

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Alpha218
05/08/20 2:07:44 PM
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CreepySmile posted...
A-are you serious sunny?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
try nearly 30 years
Listen dude, you have to understand that the only history Snu really knows about is Ohio, and the history of first story buildings in Missouri

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