Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British?
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 7 months agoCompared to the rest of the country in the ethnic-cultural sense? Yeah absolutely.
Nobody disputes that London has a substantially more diverse population than other places - but it’s still completely untrue to say “British people are few and far between” in London, even if you restrict it to White British (which your original claim did not).
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Simmer down buddy, no need to get your blood pressure up - I clarified the statement didn’t I?
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Blood pressure is fine, thanks.
You did, but I wasn’t wrong to object to your original, unclarified claim.
The reason I did is that it’s the kind of thing that you hear being used as a racist dog whistle - “Oh, there are parts of London that are no good areas, you never see a white face…” etc.
I’m not saying you were doing that, but the way you worded it left it open to that interpretation.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Ah in that case yeah I definitely did not mean it that way, but it’s also not a good look for the left to come off as to utterly deny demographics when facts are very easy to find, especially if you have a pro-immigration stance.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not sure if you mean me here, but I didn’t think I was doing that at all.