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   NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 19:41:55 JST NeonSnake

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   • HeavenlyPossum

   @HeavenlyPossum And a bunch of self-styled "lexiteers" screaming at me that I was the real racist for voting Remain because the EU favoured migration from other "white countries"

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     HeavenlyPossum (heavenlypossum@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 19:41:55 JST HeavenlyPossum

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     @neonsnake

     The horror. Coming from the US, where racism is so inextricably caught up with skin color, the sort of ie anti-Polish racism I encounter in the UK feels quaintly out of place.

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     NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 19:41:56 JST NeonSnake

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     • HeavenlyPossum

     @HeavenlyPossum With everything else going on, I'd *almost* forgotten about Brexit and that it's only now, 8 years after the vote, that some of the measures are coming into force.

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     HeavenlyPossum (heavenlypossum@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 19:41:56 JST HeavenlyPossum

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     @neonsnake

     Such a titanic self-own by a handful of super racist geezers

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     NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 19:41:57 JST NeonSnake

     And...here we go, Brits!

     https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68126880

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     HeavenlyPossum (heavenlypossum@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 19:41:57 JST HeavenlyPossum

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     @neonsnake

     lol

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     NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 19:56:04 JST NeonSnake

     • HeavenlyPossum
     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer @HeavenlyPossum

     There's a definite sense (speaking only for the UK atm) that whilst we're superior to the rest of the Europe, we're even more superioriorior to Eastern Europe.

     I remember finding a colleague from Romania out on the smoking area the day after, crying, because she'd heard someone say "good, they can all fuck off back to Europe now".

     Good old-fashioned "they're coming for our jobs/benefits" xenophobia - "I'm not racist, see, they're white! I just don't think we should let them all in willy-nilly!"