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Re:In U.K. Vote, Online Disinformation Is the New Normal by Symbiote on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @09:35AM (#21752769)
The current Conservative leader has called Muslim women "letterboxes" and black children "piccaninnies" [1] with "watermelon smiles".

Maybe someone has made a systematic review of the reporting of Conservative and Labour racism, and the reporting of it, but just throwing up a statement like yours, without also including the racism of Conservative party members/leaders, is just fuelling the fire of hostile debate.

There will be racist people in both parties. Step back, and compare the depth of the racism and the number and influence of the people involved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaninny

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Re:In U.K. Vote, Online Disinformation Is the New Normal by fennecfoxen on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:39PM (#21754662)
Trust me, I am always glad to say that the island's politics are a poorly contained dumpster fire, and point out the big stuff, like the Windrush scandal, or the English-proficiency-test scandal (not the original cheating, the Home Office response where they told thousands of international students their tests were invalid and they were subject to removal).

But if we're playing the "which one is really worse?" game, instead of striving to better either, we've lost.

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