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Weird how all that protectionist Brexit crap eventually leads to people like this 🤷🏼♂️
Many of these people have existed since long before Brexit, but they now feel more emboldened to make public displays of themselves.
Normalisation of (ever further) right wing views in old media, extremism pipelines in social media, deepening division in culture generally, it’s all playing a part.
We need to start properly looking at the root causes of these attitudes if we want to make real progress. Both where they spread from and why they become accepted.
This is exactly what we should do, but instead we'll just call them violent thugs (which they are, of course) and dismiss all of this, bring in some kind of legislation that curbs what people can talk about on the internet (which will have zero effect) and then carry on as if nothing is wrong.
This is an extremely over simplified view of what is happening. As always there is a lot more nuances involved that is washed over when you assign everything to Brexit.
For example here's pretty much the same M.O. from Dublin.
Why would Brexit do this? Ireland is an EU member 🤔.
You'll find similar news from around Europe and around the globe. People are angry, unheard, often poor, and left behind. These tinder box of conditions often erupts into the violence we have seen this week in the UK and the violence described in Ireland in the news article. Of course Brexit has not helped. But it's not the underlying cause. If anything Brexit is another symptom.
Scum like this don't care about Brexit or the EU or you or me or anything really. They just want an excuse for a punch up.
And it wasn’t just bigots or racists who voted for Brexits, or people with worries about ever increasing ties with Europe…
The same puppeteers are pulling the strings across Europe and in the US.
People like this have always existed. Remember the London riots, that had nothing to do with brexit (obviously), but they still used it as an opportunity to steal PlayStations.
These people will take any excuse they can find to have a bit of a riot, they enjoy it.