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Sitting waiting for a blood test at my GP's surgery and the woman next to me starts ranting to the guy opposite that the receptionists are conspiring to let the non-white people waiting jump the queue 'I heard them talking in their language". It runs on a ticket system and I think what happened was the receptionist was helping a (non-white) wheelchair user and grabbed him a ticket while his wife was getting him into his wheelchair. I'd guess a good third-to a half of the people in the waiting area were non-white, they would all be able to hear her, and she was less than ten feet from the people she was railing against for being "foreigners". I bit my tongue the first couple of times, but eventually had to point out that there might be a very good reason behind it and there was no need to jump to race as the issue, which shut her up (after ranting at me that she had a good reason too).

This is what UKIP are doing to us and it has to stop.

Date: 2015-01-28 01:56 pm (UTC)
oursin: Brush the Wandering Hedgehog by the fire (Default)
From: [personal profile] oursin
I'm not sure we need to blame UKIP for a type of person who has been around for much longer - and I'm not convinced, whatever may be the moaning about PC conspiracy, that they ever shut up or felt that they should.

There are so many things, however, for which one legitimately can blame UKIP.

Date: 2015-01-28 06:04 pm (UTC)
oursin: Brush the Wandering Hedgehog by the fire (Default)
From: [personal profile] oursin
On the List I Used To Run there was somebody who could, I suppose, be regarded as in a category that might be subject to discrimination themself, and did some really noxious slagging-off of the gay/ethnic minority all-sticking-together conspiracies they believed to be happening and preventing them from getting the kind of position they wanted. Sigh.

There was also quite recently the woman who at an event for Black History Month (and with a partner/friend with her who appeared to be BME) turned to me and said about the BME organiser that she bet they'd never experienced discrimination. WTF. I was gobsmacked.

People can be really toxic.

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