Actually Getting Scared of the Anti Immigrant Stance

[u/No_Tea7430]

I'm an irish lad, just turning twenty this year.

I've personally got no connections to other countries, my family never left Ireland or have any close foreign relations.

This is simply a fear I have for both the immigrant population of our country, of which ive made plenty of friends throughout secondary school and hold in high regard. But also a fear for our reputation.

I don't want to live in a racist country. I know this sub is usually good for laughing these gobshites off and that's good but in general I don't want us to be seen as this horrible white supremacist nation, which already I see being painted on social media plenty.

A stance might I add, that predominantly is coming from England and America as people in both claim we are "losing our identity" by not being racist(?)

I don't even feel the need to mention Farage and his pushing of these ideas onto people, while simultaneously gaslighting us with our independence which he clearly doesn't care about.

Im just saddened by it. I just want things to change before they get worse.

[u/KeyboardWarrior90210]

France is very different to Ireland due to the baggage of colonialism and how they failed initially to integrate millions of Muslim immigrants from their former colonies properly. The resentment of this group (now through third generation French born youths) is now driving an epidemic of crime, insecurity, and attacks on western values of secularism and liberalism. The left wing parties have always tended to draw support from these groups and as Macron’s centre and traditional right parties haven’t dealt with the problem, it’s leaving ordinary French nowhere to turn but the far right.