• Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Dont underestimate the role straight up racism played in the brexit vote. It wasn’t just foreign propaganda, and much of the propaganda was enabled by racism.

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      1 year ago

      It was interesting, as a non-European, to see the explosion of anti-Eastern European racism that happened in the UK in the lead-up to and after the Brexit vote.

      There were a bunch of anti-Polish posters and incidents of harassment and violence that occurred about the time period. Being anti-Polish in particular, at least for somewhere like the UK, seems so bizarre to me.