It’s pretty galling to see someone who’s never lived in London talk mad shit about it. London is my home, not DHH’s. He knows fuck all, which is why he repeats tired, overcooked falsehoods.
What he’s saying is that he only considers white British to be legitimately British. He would look at former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and current Mayor Sadiq Khan and dismiss them as insufficiently British. Too much melanin I guess.
He’s even excluded white people from elsewhere who were born in Britain if they have a non-British ancestor. So according to DHH and his ilk Nigel Farage’s children wouldn’t be counted as white British despite having white mothers (Irish and German), being born to a British father in Britain and living all their lives in Britain.
What the fuck is the point of dividing people like this? “Just an opinion” my ass. DHH and people like him are dehumanising my fellow Londoners.
My girlfriend witnessed a robbery in London's city center ~2 weeks ago, in the second day of our visit. After that, we saw a homeless guy pooping on a wall; some of them screaming at others.
I didn't feel like I was personally in danger, but I'm also a guy who's lived next to American slums.
I almost had my MacBook stolen out of my backpack from me in London (Shoreditch) a few years in broad daylight - by a black person that didn't even speak English during the attempted robbery.
I'm from Africa so I'm born with the instincts that luckily prevented me from losing anything or getting hurt.
I was just visiting the UK for 3 weeks, but that gave me a perspective how bad immigration laws can turn it into something out of control.
Why does a place like Singapore, where 48% of its workforce are immigrants / expats - not have this problem.
To add to your anecdata, had you visited London during the time of Dickens you would have had your possessions thieved by a charming raffish urchin that spoke English in a dialect you also wouldn't have understood.
I gotta be honest, I find the point of view that says "It would have been better if I were accosted by a native-born national" fascinating.
It's like being a lot happier getting half your crops taken by the local king instead of a wandering warlord, or burned at the stake by God-fearing Christians instead of "heathens." It's a kind of belief in a specific just order of reality that I don't think I'm in a place in my life journey to feel.
There's a fascinating book called Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson that talks about the place nationalism took in the zeitgeist of much of humanity, displacing previous tribe-structuring concepts of shared faith, same-village origin, or vassaldom to the local lord. Reading between the lines, it makes an interesting case that nationhood, while a useful fiction (it gives a person in East London a reason to care about the fate of someone they will definitely never meet in the Falkland Islands and made experiments like "The British Empire" possible), is no less a fiction than the people-unifying stories that came before.
And if the fiction is making a person care more about the fate of someone they'll never meet on an island in the Patagonian Shelf in the South Atlantic Ocean than a person who is so physically near to them that they just stole their laptop... Maybe the story could use some tweaking, yeah?
I actually accidentally walked into that protest while doing touristy stuff in London that weekend (yeah, great weekend to choose) and first it looked weird having all those people waving British and English flags walking around.... and then I noticed many wore shirts with "Make Britain White Again" (sic) slogans and unironically wearing "Make Britain Great Again" hats. Whatever that thing was, it was about as peaceful as "Truth Rallies" Milošević organized before the whole 1990s war in Balkans went down.
It's just another example of someone straying outside of their sphere(s) of expertise ... there are some excellent examples to the contrary, but fuck you money tends to tempt those with weak characters into these situations.
Incredibly sad to watch. He literally has no idea what he's talking about.
I did respond to one of his falsehoods, you must have missed it in your hurry to post this pithy putdown.
DHH and his gang of “White Replacement” reptiles overstate the facts by saying 40% of London is white British. Nigel Farage is a leader of a British far right party who exclusively has children with foreign women. His children are as white as he is, British citizens who’ve lived all their lives in Britain.
To any reasonable person, even someone who struggles to mingle with non-white people like DHH, Farage’s children would be white British. But the stats would count them as “white - Other”, which is another 20% of London.
What he’s saying is that he only considers white British to be legitimately British. He would look at former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and current Mayor Sadiq Khan and dismiss them as insufficiently British. Too much melanin I guess.
He’s even excluded white people from elsewhere who were born in Britain if they have a non-British ancestor. So according to DHH and his ilk Nigel Farage’s children wouldn’t be counted as white British despite having white mothers (Irish and German), being born to a British father in Britain and living all their lives in Britain.
What the fuck is the point of dividing people like this? “Just an opinion” my ass. DHH and people like him are dehumanising my fellow Londoners.