The Brexit Votes Have it: The U.K. Is Leaving The E.U.

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There have always been instances of "Hate Crime" in Britain [[that is since the term was invented .. previously it was just considered to be "crime") and there has certainly been a rise in the reporting of it in the last few weeks. Part of this rise may be due to people being encouraged to report anything they might think is suspicious and possibly some incidents are ones that people previously would have considered too trivial to bother anyone with.

Sometimes this rise in "hate" could be mere paranoia. As an example, in the video with the CNN article we are asked to believe that a very well-spoken Finnish lady has been the victim of some misdemeanor simply because some stranger told her loudly that she had a "nice accent".

Roger

I guess those of us with a "foreign" [[not British) accent, had better stay away from Britain. And those of us with brown or Black skin had better stay away from USA. And those of us with Middle Eastern family names or Middle Eastern nose shapes or other facial features [[like mine) had better stay out of Western Europe, with all the fear of being swamped by immigrants.

This is like my early childhood after WWII. We Jews were told by our elders that we "always have to keep our bags packed", as we never know when we'll have to "get out while the gettin' is good", to keep body and Soul together. One would think that Humankind would have learned a lesson from the atrocities of the 20th Century. As I stated above in this thread or in a like one, if I had been born with Black skin, I surely would be dead already.