Coordinated fires wrote:
> So if more than half of Britain does not want to drown in oceans
> of regulation, imposed by unelected left-wing bearocrats in
> Brussels who receive a 2000£ monthly stipend for trouser
> cleaning...then they are all racists. Anyone who thinks this
> Orwellian superstate of unaccountable socialists is bad then you
> are a racist? If youre against open borders anarchy then you are a
> racist?
> I'm s millennial, I grew up and some of my best friends are from
> all over he world, I harbour no racist ideology, however every
> time I disagree with a middle aged rich white liberal im a racist?
> Usually I agree with most of what John writes but the reason
> people are voting this way is because they're tired of being
> called racists by a bunch of race-obsessed champagne-sipping,
> victim-industry "liberals".
Guest wrote:
> The definition of "xenophobia" is disagreeing with middle aged
> rich white liberals over the minutiae of tax policy, or who will
> win the Super Bowl, or what type of ice cream is best....or
> anything else.
> Basically shut up or else you're a xenophobe and probably a
> homophobe, and likely a sexist too (just for good
> measure).
There's so much low-hanging fruit to grab from these comments it's
almost laughable.
Let's start with the most laughable thing. Apparently both of
you are completely clueless about this, but Millennials were
overwhelmingly opposed to Brexit.
*** Brexit and the Generational Divide
***
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog ... nal-divide
> These are all valid concerns. They all played some part in turning
> the British people against the EU. But there is another factor, a
> cultural factor reflected in a stark generational divide. Evidence
> suggests that support for leaving the EU was concentrated among
> people over 50. Among the 18-24 year olds, 75 percent opposed
> Brexit. So it can’t be just concerns about economic insecurity or
> the democratic deficit, issues that affect all
> generations. There’s also an ugly undertone of nationalistic
> xenophobia at play here. Indeed, what drove the leave vote seems
> to have been more cultural than economic—to put it bluntly, fear
> and loathing over rising immigration and greater cultural
> diversity. This is exactly the same dynamic playing out across the
> Atlantic with the rise of Trump—a cultural backlash of older
> whiter people lashing out against demographic forces that they see
> as threatening their historically privileged position.
So this fact alone wipes out the justification for your phony outrage.
In other words, you're agreeing with the rich white liberals, and the
people over 50. Hell, you probably are rich white liberals
yourselves, just whining because you hate your parents.
If you hate people over 50 so much, then you should understand that
your racism matches that of people over 50, and that the people you
should hate are other Millennials, since they appear to overwhelmingly
disagree with you. (That's a problem with Millennials in general.
You all think you're so smart because you carry around iPhones and
other shiny things, and it never seems to dawn on you that there's
nothing new under the sun.)
Second, the champagne-sipping unelected left-wing bureaucrats
have been doing the same job in Brussels for over 40 years.
Hypocrisy reaches its highest point when you're talking about
politicians or regulators. If they're doing something you like,
then they're statesmen; if not, then they're champagne-sipping
bureaucrats.
The point is that decades have gone by with no Brexit referendum
targeting champagne-sipping unelected left-wing bureaucrats. The
Brexit referendum became active only recently because of foreign
workers coming to the UK -- first the Catholic Poles, and later the
Muslim Syrians.
That's been true throughout Europe. Marine Le Pen in France, Geert
Wilders in Holland and others only became popular because of
migration.
So the Brexit referendum had nothing to do with bureaucrats, as you'd
like to claim, and it has everything to do with racism and xenophobia,
which seems to embarrass you.
I like to point that the worst bigots are the bigots who don't know
that they're bigots -- and this has been amply demonstrated by both
liberals and conservatives. If you know your own prejudices, then you
can compensate for them. But everyone has prejudices, and if you
delude yourself into believing that you don't have them, then you say
things that make you sound like a racist idiot.
So I think you should be proud of your racism and xenophobia, and you
should be proud of the fact that you're siding with people over 50
against your peer Millennials. Be like "Millenial83," who was in this
forum up until about a month ago defending his racism. Be loud and
proud, like the Nazis were in the 1930s.
Stand up and say, "I'm a racist and a xenophobe and I'm proud of it!!"
That way, at least you won't be a hypocrite.