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There is, however, a whole lot that says a lot about the character of DHH in it, such as by repeating rhetoric of the UK's racist far-right.

Pushing everyone who doesn't have a 100% positive opinion on mass immigration under the label of "racist far-right" actively contributes to the strengthening of said "racist far-right". I hope you're aware of that.
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon is openly racist and definitely far-right.
Maybe the problem is the native Brits. Because the link he posted shows that the third of London he calls Native British is just White British.

Do you think non-white can’t be native British. Is Idris Elba not native British?

After hie many generations are you native British or is it impossible if you are not white?

This isn’t about mass immigration, it’s just about immigration as such.

That’s far-right.

> Because the link he posted shows that the third of London he calls Native British is just White British.

The table doesn't distinguish "British" from "non-British" for non-white people, so it would be rather hard to account for that.

But if he's referring to an ethnicity (really a narrow group of ethnicities) rather than a nationality then of course that would entail a range of skin tones what people would normally call "white". And yes, that thinking would necessarily exclude Idris Elba.

But then if this is really about worrying about "white people", then why is he also excluding the non-British white people from his figure? Can it really not just be that there exists an English ethnicity (and Scottish and Welsh) that has been there for centuries and has nowhere else to go?

> This isn’t about mass immigration, it’s just about immigration as such.

There is no such distinction.

You ask "after how many generations are you native British"; I can equally well ask "after how many immigrants is it mass immigration".

The point is that the rate of immigration has been sufficient to completely overwhelm the native birthrate, causing a rapid demographic shift.

When the UK colonized India in the first place, the population did not become minority-Indian at all, let alone within the space of a couple of generations.

I'll note I'm white, but not native British, and none of the people in question tend to object to me being here. Often they make that explicit, by e.g. telling me that I'm "one of the good ones" or similar.

What instead often happen when they hear I'm Norwegian is a complete mask-off moment where they start explaining their favorite racist thinking to me, assuming that since I'm from a group they like, apparently I'm expected to agree with them (I do not).

My main exposure to anti-immigrant thinking face to face in London over the last 25 years have been repeated incidences of people who "just have concerns about immigration" revealing their racist motivations to me without me even asking them.

In other words: I don't buy it for a second when people try to insist it's immigration they care about, rather than seeing non-white faces.

> In other words: I don't buy it for a second when people try to insist it's immigration they care about, rather than seeing non-white faces.

Have any of them ever proposed to you to expel the established black families? If they're just being racist, you should naturally expect it to extend that far, right?

> Do you think non-white can’t be native British. Is Idris Elba not native British?

> After hie many generations are you native British or is it impossible if you are not white?

Consider the existence and meaning of the term "Native American", then ask yourself these questions again.

If speaking of problems caused by immigration makes you racist far-right means you effectively can't speak about those problems.

Having a city turn from majority British to British being minority means something very strange and damaging is happening.

Londinium was founded by foreigners; bloody Italians coming over here and establishing our capital, mutter mutter ...
You are mixing White/Non-White with British/Non-British
You assume that because you have bias. Over 40% of current residents of London are not born in Britain.
No, the entire claim is that DHH actually means "British" when he says "British", rather than meaning "white" because people say he does, because he's supporting Tommy Robinson, who also means it that way, because reasons.
DHH has not spoken about the problems caused by mass migration. Just lamenting the fact that a country is apparently less white than it used to be.

He also doesn't live here. What does he know about London?

british is not a color and no color is british apart maybe british racing green.

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