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Re:Weirdos in the depression by jotm on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:19AM (#23403571)
It's ridiculous. Living in the UK I've had several people talk about Muslims and immigrants and how they change culture and take jobs... One even said "you're alright mate"...

Are you serious? I don't understand how people can think this way. If I and other foreign coworkers were alright, why are others bad? Where are they?

Terrible media and politicians with their own agendas pushing trash down people's eyes and ears, and they turn on some other group, it's fking sad.

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Re:Weirdos in the depression by poulsbohemian on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:20PM (#23405177)
I’m sure some learned person here can give us the right nomenclature, but it’s the difference between “they” and aa single individual. It’s easy to be convinced that some group is the problem, it’s very different when you are confronted with a single individual and suddenly realize that groups are seldom as homogeneous as they appear.
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