Pissed off...

[davidgillon]

... with a friend of mine.

I posted a link on FB to the Indy's long and depressing article on the scale of post Brexit racism.

His immediate response, 'I voted Leave and I'm not racist and I'm sure the majority of leave voters weren't racist.' Followed by a po-faced line about how free movement of labour isn't working.

I never mentioned Leavers, or free movement, and neither did the article.

And what makes his post doubly hypocritical is half his friends work in the EU.

I reminded him that the kind of people who launch racist attacks are precisely the same the same kind who attack people like me, or him, for being disabled in public.

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

There's nothing that Leave voters won't make about them.

And their insistence that they're not racist.

It seems most white people have so little idea about racism is, though, that their assertions of not being are absolutely meaningless. They think racism is a mean word to call someone and nothing more -- and since each of them is convinced they're a good person, they therefore cannot be a racist!

[alatefeline]

I'm sorry that that happened to you. I hope your friend realizes why this was a problem and reconsiders. I also hope that good things happen to give you a better day.

[kaberett]

Urgh. :-(

[yhlee]

I'm sorry.

*support support*

[techiebabe]

Ugh.

I don't have a solution because I've seen the odd person crawl out of the woodwork & admit to voting Brexit...

... But you have my huge sympathies and understanding.

[davidgillon]

It's not the voting Leave I'm annoyed with him for, it's for taking a post about racism and making it about him being right to vote the way he did.