THERE WERE riots happening in the United Kingdom recently, and the narrative is that this is driven by “far right” thugs who just hate Muslims and “persons of color.”
That argument, however, conceals the driving force that triggered the rioting: the murder of three British girls by the son of Rwandan immigrants.
I try to imagine what Filipinos would do if a black guy killed three local girls, and my thoughts go to one word: Salvage.
But back to Britain, the dead girls are not the main cause, however, but the spark. The real cause for the rioting/protests was years of immigration and their resulting costs: grooming gangs in Rotherham, terrorist attacks, ethnic tension, etc. The British population was never consulted on this, but they are still blamed as the cause of these problems.
On social media, they are blamed using various excuses. For example, they are accused of destabilizing the Middle East.
True enough, but the people who did that were British politicians, the very same politicians who are letting in the immigrants.
Another excuse is the UK’s history of colonization. That is also true, except they left when those colonies declared their independence.
Why would those colonies do that only for them to pursue their colonizers back to the latter’s countries?
The counter to this is that they want revenge and it is right that the British of today suffer from the sins of the British yesterday.
Okay then declare war like honest nations; none of this whining about refugees, multiculturalism or human rights.
But, of course, none of this is about those things ultimately. Britain could be the most historically pacifist nation in the world and it’ll be blamed for something, and behind the blame game are two words: wealth extraction.
People immigrate to Britain because it’s perceived to be rich, and also because their leaders allow it. When that immigration inevitably causes problems, and the Brits start rioting, they are blamed for being xenophobic.
The truth, of course, is that all human groups are xenophobic, including Filipinos, and generally don’t like outsiders moving into their territories in large numbers.
When those outsiders start grooming and killing, and make excuses about how the natives are to blame, you get what happened in UK./PN
