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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

A woman on Instagram made an excellent point. In the past few years in UK and Ireland, anti-immigration protests happened whenever children and women are attacked by immigrants. However, how come these same protesters don't come out for female victims of domestic abuse or sexually assaulted? Oh yeah I know, because for them, they treat someone who looks different as being worse and held to different standards. It signals "only we can treat our women bad! Fuck off they're ours, foreigners! Moreover, xenophobia is also a projection to bigots' own insecurities. They look for someone deemed weaker to lash out to because they could not be anymore angrier and hateful to themselves. It is our lizard brain putting us on our leash and being enslaved to emotions.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 hours ago

Also some of these "protectors of women and girls" have convictions for domestic abuse. They were silent when a white mp was charged with sexual assault. They were silent when a white dj was charged with sexual assault. It's nothing more than thinly veiled racism. We all know it. If reform Ltd do win the next election, the mask will be off.