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• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do you remember after 9/11 and 7/7 how Indian and Pakistani (and frankly, any non-white) people living in Britain were treated? That attitude went away for a while, but came back with a vengeance. In many places around the UK, people of colour face really severe discrimination. I don’t live in Germany, so I can’t say which is worse, but I imagine both are pretty bad tbh

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I was there for the 7/7, and have to admit, did not notice any particular shift in attitude towards indians/pakistanis. Maybe I was too young and just not looking, but I felt that the media largely shifted the blame to the actions of a few extremists instead of a culture as a whole.

    I remember the rhetoric around 9/11 being about culture, and saw the effects of that in the US but not so much in the UK. Again, maybe I wasn’t really looking, but I also feel that the media was just a bit more rational back then.

    I’m also not denying that people of non-white backgrounds facing discrimination, as I’ve felt it myself. I just felt it way waay more in Germany.

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