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Who/what are racists according to UK protests? Why are they protesting?

I don't know shit about politics. All I know is that in the UK the Labour party won, and the Conservative party lost.

I read some protestors are protesting against racism. What is this about? Protesting against new party that just won? I thought the Labour party was left-wing, meaning they are more on the social-equality side? I'm lost.

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I read some protestors are protesting against racism.

There have been counter-protests which have vastly outnumbered the supremacist protest. It's great to see.

Basically this was triggered by a false rumor that recent child murders were committed by a Muslim immigrant, where in reality they were an unstable 1st generation (so fully UK born and raised) and from a Christian family. It was basically the tipping point for a lot of pent-up racists. A former MI6 agent has pretty much confirmed this rumor was probably started by a propaganda group, likely Russian, and likely a response to a more left-leaning political party recently being voted into No. 10.

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Weirdos whipped up into a frenzy about “forriners stealing benefits” by farage and his far right party

ed. Asylum seekers in hotels etc have been here for years, well before the new government came in. Its only since labour came into power the far right have decided to be violent. At no point did they ever care, until labour won and farage didn't get seated. weirdo musko has also been posting a lot of hate speech and bullshit, which foments further anger and violence.

Anecdotally from some article I read, on average the ~~protesters~~ rioters 40+ year old white men who you would find in wetherspoons 6 pints in on a wednesday morning

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- Anecdotally from some article I read, on average the protesters are 40+ year old white men who you would find in wetherspoons 6 pints in on a wednesday morning
  
  Was this the article? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/07/rioter-southport-jailed-far-right
  
  I looked at the photos and thought, what a bunch of losers. Read the article and sure enough, losers.
  
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- They're not protesters; they're rioters
  
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- Its only since labour came into power the far right have decided to be violent.
  
  Uhh....
  
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  Would you mind sharing the riots about asylum seekers and whatever else from the last five years? If you have a correction, post it. Dont just leave a useless sarcastic comment.
  
  I am also speaking United Kingdom specifically
  
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It started with a horrifying knife attack where the perpetrator stabbed 11 children and killing 3 of them. 2 adults were also stabbed. This attack horrified the nation.

News stories alleged that the perpetrator was an Islamic illegal immigrant, social media did what it does best: whipping up emotions and exaggeration and feeding it to people with poorer standard of education.

The background here is that there are concerns surrounding illegal immigration in the UK, as it is sold by criminal gangs as a country of neverending riches. Some opinions are justified, and some are not.

As you can imagine,far right organisation jumped on this as an excuse to encourage shitty behaviour, and the worst of them used it as an excuse to have a tantrum and damage peopkes properly, attack people of different ethnicities and get themselves locked up for it.

TL:DR : Horrible racist and bigoted individuals made a tragedy about them, and now we all have to deal with their shittiness.

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- Something to add to this.
  
  The people protesting against racism are counter-protesters. They are showing up to protest against the far right who are in turn protesting against migrants.
  
  In the past couple of days they have been out-numbering the far right protesters by at least an order of magnitude, and a lot of the expected riots have been averted.
  
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  Outnumber a fascist ten to one and he tends to remember his manners.
  
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- You should add that the perpetrator was actually a British citizen, grew up in Britain.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Southport_stabbing?wprov=sfti1
  
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Kremlin social media disinformation campaign causing civil unrest

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- More likely Mossad. Everyone's quick to blame Russia but Israel has the means and the motive.
  
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  What motive?
  
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They seem to not want immigrants. And I suspect "immigrant" means "doesn't look like me". In other words, it's just "they took are jerbs!"

The make-up and mindset of the citizenry doesn't change just because the government changes.

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- The make-up and mindset of the citizenry doesn't change just because the government changes.
  
  It's a small minority from the far right rioting, with massive counter-protests. You're trying to say the whole population is rotten based on a few negative examples, which ironically is just what the racists are doing themselves.
  
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  You're trying to say the whole population is rotten based on a few negative examples
  
  I'm not trying to say that. I've no idea why you think I am.
  
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There was huge riots against alleged immigrants and alleged muslim. Protests are about Racism is evil, rioters are assholes

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Edit: improved wording, a bit

The Labour Party is "left-wing," as in that they are similar to the Democrats being "left," but in reality they are republican-lites (conservative-lite).

George Galloway talks about the race riots: https://lemmy.world/post/18407870

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