It's probably only a matter of time before I get my collar felt again but this time I have witnesses ie, the 3 and a half people who read this blog. This Brexit Brunch thingy where we've all been take out of Europe against our will has really made me feel uncomfortable. As uncomfortable as the people who thought up these posters. We are now very familiar with 'the other' as a threat to ourselves, the refugee or immigrant. Do we really need posters to remind us? Can't we trust our instincts to distrust others? I mean it comes so naturally, it doesn't need to be encouraged surely?
I'm starting to feel like a homegrown terrorist and a suspicious person because I cannot align myself with the British Value of 'Distrust'. If I grew a beard and rolled out a prayer mat in the middle of Morrisons you can bet your bottom dollar that I would be reported by old fuckers who were listening to their instincts. If I as a white honkie started shouting 'Black Lives Matter' in the middle of Queen Street, I would be arrested as a suspicious person because why would a white person believe that Black Lives Matter now more than any other time and more than any other life. We know instinctively that they do.
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