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What Govanhill is turning into, but how Toryglen Circus used to look like before it was torn down and rebuilt.
Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
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Going great in France.
France is a much less tolerant place than the UK, with a far less liberal attitude towards race and religion.
Not sure it's somewhere we should aim for.
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We wouldn't want to be haram.
I thought the UK was one of the most racist countries on earth, or so I've been reading
I'd rather we were intolerant of intolerance, rather than import intolerance in the name of tolerance.
Again, thinking about all the culturally rich places that burn down churches, persecute Christians, murder people for "blasphemy", etc.
Don't want that crap here, thanks.
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Not asked for, not embraced, not wanted, but tolerated.
Sounds like a worker talking about the customers.
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Govanhill is quickly becoming increasingly desirable. There’s an awful lot of good about the area, and property prices reflect that.
The council have been doing a good job in buying the run down tenements and getting rid of the slum landlords. The pandemic has slowed that but the area is clearly gentrifying.
It’s not a dangerous area, and sure there are groups of people hanging around but there is that everywhere. It just happens to be brown people that hang around so scares the Facebook racists. Next you’ll be posting videos of that crackpot drug dealer roaming the streets asking for fights from any brown person.
Govanhill was awful ten years ago, it’s not now. However, the racists and middle aged plus will claim because there are a large number of ‘foreigners’ it’s inherently bad. Whilst all the hipsters and young folk are moving in in droves and bringing the area up. Heck there are at least three vegan cafes there flogging expensive coffee and pretentious (but delicious) cakes. Hardly indicative of a dangerous area with nothing going for it.
As for Toryglen Circus, I used to do some work there, and I can promise you that having been in a number of the properties, it was those belonging to the Glaswegians who have been on benefits for years and no doubt serious drug addictions which were much worse than the immigrants.
But it was a dump, and I suspect it always was. Somewhere to dump the drug addicts and poor with no help will result in a bad area.
So you've been reading? Whaaaa?
I think its useful in these conversations to make it clear we have a very different approach to race than America.
This video as popped up a few times on my youtube feed, about how the American Military Police tried to have Britain enforce racial segregation when Black American troops were stationed here during WW2. I've read about similar incidents to the one in this video. How the white British locals rejected the Americans trying to get them to segregate.
I think this video is very well put together and shows a difference in attitude to race when it comes to the British and Americans.
Heroes Among Us: Incident at Bamber Bridge
This video as popped up a few times on my youtube feed, about how the American Military Police tried to have Britain enforce racial segregation when Black American troops were stationed here during WW2. I've read about similar incidents to the one in this video. How the white British locals rejected the Americans trying to get them to segregate.
I think this video is very well put together and shows a difference in attitude to race when it comes to the British and Americans.
Heroes Among Us: Incident at Bamber Bridge
An interesting event.
The resentment of being obliged to treat black people as equals after generations of treating them as subhumans is a special American poison. Segregation was to remorselessly take another swig and the last of that is still in living memory.
Completely incomparable to racism in the UK which has always been small beans compared to divisions of socioeconomic status.
Also, some people have commented on how racist the UK is compared to... elsewhere...
Saw this in passing: https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2019-being-black-in-the-eu-summary_en.pdf
Are we not all inherently racist from evolution? it's all tribalism. Nationalism, Religion, Football, Racism, so it's challenging to move past it. There are also certain traits each race generally has, we try to deny them but they do exist, another reason it's difficult to not see everyone as equal.
The thread title is a perfect example, by using "UK" they're already segregating our geographic tribe.
The thread title is a perfect example, by using "UK" they're already segregating our geographic tribe.
Caporegime
Thats right, the uk has some if the lowest values of racism compared to EU countries and the world.
Its not perfect, I dont know if it can be but we are working towards it. But how are we treated for this?
Are we praised for being ahead of the curve?
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Whatabouterey; we should be praised for not being as racist as America
Off the top of my head I think of "No Blacks, no Irish, no dogs", the "Black and White Minstrels Show" and of course, the infamous "Rivers of blood" speech
I don’t think being praised for being a bit less racist than someone else is warranted. It’s not something that is likely ever to be worthy of praise, it should just be the done thing which it unfortunately isn’t.
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No we are not! Evolution should be making us less racist if anything. Its really no different from having different eye/hair colour or textures/styles or being male/female.
Caporegime
But aren't the countries that these oppressed minorities come from even worse?
For example Niger,
Somalia
Are we not seeing some hypocrisy and double standards given how these countries treat their citizens?