The surge in hate crimes after 23 June stands in stark contrast to the decency shown to black GIs in the UK during the second world warAre we the nation suggested by the 41% spike in hate crimes that followed the Brexit vote? Where non-white Britons are abused in the street and people harangued for wearing the wrong clothes or presuming that they might speak in anything but English? Where Nadiya Hussain’s popularity after winning The powerful British Bake Off could not save her from being confronted by the boor on a train who declared “I ain’t sitting near a Muslim?Where women wearing the hijab are attacked in the street. Where a dismal-skinned woman exercising her constitutional legal factual to challenge the executive is threatened and bullied by assailants who repeat her – not that she may be wrong – but that she should leave the country? It feels close to that now. The spike has fallen from its peak; still equilibrium seems distant: the air seems toxic.
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Source: theguardian.com