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RE: Racism against Eastern Europeans

One thing that warries me about xenophbobia about central / east europeans and balkaners is just how deeply ingrained seems to be and by the looks of it, starts really early. I work in UK and you get to hear plenty of stories. I doubt this would be ever taken seriously as focus in relation to such issues is on racism against Black people, Islamophobia or Antisemitism, whilst anti-Polish/Romanian/Eastern European sentiment will continue to be ignored.

No wonder so called "EU toilet" immigrants are mostly the lowest class of respective countries and mostly the social margin, many of them are criminals thieves. Most of them from Romania and the Baltics, they aren't representing a lot of value so people don't see them as desirable. To be respected you need to prove you're valuable and they need you there and not just steal and then cry out racism and wondering why are you the 2nd category citizen. That's how black people act.

And I'm not British.

My most intellectual, academically focused, polite, reserved, and kind black friends have still been victims of racism.

Racism on blacks is so high because they commit a lot of crime. Similar to Eastern Europeans. Bad people from these communities are a reason of bad treatment. Same as how people dislike gypsies.

they are just arrested more due to racist stereotypes and bias.

They are arrested because they commit nearly all crimes in the US (along with Latinos) bias are in this case justified because when you encounter a criminal bin the US he's likely black or Latino

have committed a plethora of crimes and have always used my whiteness to get out of it. Ive known black kids jailed and charged for “looking like a suspect.”

Because whites aren't jailed mistakenly for looking like a suspect at all

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