Social media posts assailing immigrants have fomented a climate of fear and hatred in Britain, Portugal and other countries. The vitriolic language is now spilling onto the streets.
Fuck 'em, but those social media posts didn’t come out of a vacuum. Political and media leaders that have been looking for votes and clicks and doing lazy “migrant scary!” rhetoric and stories deserve a lot of blame for creating the environment where things like this mass violence can happen.
Fuck 'em, but those social media posts didn’t come out of a vacuum. Political and media leaders that have been looking for votes and clicks and doing lazy “migrant scary!” rhetoric and stories deserve a lot of blame for creating the environment where things like this mass violence can happen.