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A sharp spike in racist incidents reported after the Brexit vote
The Washington Post ^ | 06/26/2016 | Max Bearak

Posted on 06/26/2016 1:35:40 PM PDT by Robwin

After Thursday's referendum on a "Brexit," a wave of racist incidents have been reported to British police and documented in widely shared social media posts. Through the weekend, #Postrefracism has been trending, and its contents provide a disheartening view of how Britain's vote to leave the European Union may be emboldening those who harbor virulent racist sentiments.

Police in west London were investigating what they called a "racially motivated" attack against the Polish Social and Cultural Association. Poles make up the largest foreign-born population in the United Kingdom. The organization's building was apparently defaced with graffiti that said, "Go home."

In Cambridgeshire, leaflets were apparently distributed with “Leave the EU/No more Polish vermin” written in both English and Polish.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; racism
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To: Robwin

Poles are a race?


21 posted on 06/26/2016 1:51:11 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Robwin

Doesn’t the WP know you cannot commit racism against white male Europeans? They are the only not protected group.


22 posted on 06/26/2016 1:52:00 PM PDT by Williams (If Trump is not the nominee ... The party's over.)
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To: Robwin

The multicultural pushing, globalist embracing Marxist have created a powder keg.


23 posted on 06/26/2016 1:53:10 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Robwin

Is Polish a race?


24 posted on 06/26/2016 1:53:46 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Yeah, but they’re not white enough ;)


25 posted on 06/26/2016 1:54:28 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: headstamp 2

for sure
black polish is definitely racist


26 posted on 06/26/2016 1:55:52 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: Robwin

The Poles are a race. No they aren’t.

There is only one race currently native to this planet. The human race.

Once people figure this out all this playing of the race card can end.


27 posted on 06/26/2016 1:56:36 PM PDT by disndat
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To: dp0622

Muslims rape infidels = didn’t happen

The Enemedia is desperate to keep the western world ignorant of the vast numbers of crimes of the invaders


28 posted on 06/26/2016 1:57:31 PM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
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To: Robwin

I didn’t know Pols were a race.


29 posted on 06/26/2016 2:12:14 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Robwin

The only large group of blue-eyed white Christians? They are the only group acceptable to complain about. All the hostility towards Mohammadan gangs abusing white girls, to all the sharia patrols, etc. that isn’t able to be expressed in polite company can be focused on the one group it is acceptable to criticize and even hate, other white Christians. That’s how I see from this side of the ocean.


30 posted on 06/26/2016 2:26:19 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Usually Pollock jokes are kinda funny. I guess the WaPo has a lousy sense of humor.

“Two Pollocks walk into a Brexit protest...”


31 posted on 06/26/2016 2:42:07 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Williams

I gotta wonder if the Muslims in the UK are using this as an excuse to attack the poles (their bitter enemies) and use the brexit vote as an excuse....


32 posted on 06/26/2016 2:46:07 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: disndat
Once people figure this out all this playing of the race card can end.

As long as that card is worth money and advantage, it's not ending.

33 posted on 06/26/2016 2:49:40 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Robwin

Polish is a race?


34 posted on 06/26/2016 3:07:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Robwin

At 1530 Sunday afternoon, MSNBC was STILL claiming there was a 3 million signature petition for a Britex referendum do-over!


35 posted on 06/26/2016 3:16:35 PM PDT by Roccus (POLITICIAN....JOURNALIST..............." four letter words" spelled with ten letters.)
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To: Thibodeaux
black polish is definitely racist

Black polish matters?

36 posted on 06/26/2016 3:47:37 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: Robwin

If Polish is a race I’m applying for a job at Harvard


37 posted on 06/26/2016 4:57:55 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Oldexpat
Last I looked Poles were all white. Am I missing something?

Yes.

You are looking at it though American eyes.

To us everyone from Europe is white and of the same race.

They don't see it that way.

The Celts are one race, the Anglos are another, the Slavs are another, the Italians yet another as are the Greeks and so on and so forth.

38 posted on 06/26/2016 5:08:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Robwin

Poles are Caucasian so these incidents would have to be perpetrated by non-Caucasians to be racially motivated.


39 posted on 06/26/2016 5:46:00 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Robwin

Social justice warriors define bullying as anything that contradicts their narrative.
Saying that immigration is bad for a nation is racist. Saying Muslim rapists are bad is racist/-phobic.
To even discuss why someone would vote to leave leads to “hate facts”, facts that contradict the liberal narrative and are therefore labelled hateful.


40 posted on 06/27/2016 6:50:53 AM PDT by tbw2
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