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It’s more that the people of Leicester got taken advantage of by sweatshop companies rather than being the majority is bad.

We've been thinking about leaving London, or more specifically moving to a rural area, for a few years now. One of the main reasons why we are still here is because we are so uncertain about how much we'd enjoy living in a homogeneous white community.

You are not the only one.

Well, she'd be horrified by Leicester and would probably see the unalarmed white inhabitants as idiots who deserve their fate (when multiculturalism inevitably destroys civilisation). She wrote a whole book about that.

We've been thinking about leaving London, or more specifically moving to a rural area

I live in a small rural(ish) village full of Tory old white people in red trousers and they're so resistant to change it makes my blood boil. (The local counciler wrote a very xenophobic article in the local newsletter about foreign drivers clogging up the village. I tried to get her in trouble, but she was excused by another old white fox hunting tory and there was no appeal process outside of judicial review).

On the other hand, I don't really engage with them and I can be in the woods or the fields straight out the door in minutes which is wonderful beyond compare.

I used to install air compressors in hosiery factories in the city when I was a teenager and it was the same then.

Snap.

My bigger worry is how many of the younger population seem to share the views, I was hopeful that it was largely a generational thing, but sadly not.

One of the main reasons why we are still here is because we are so uncertain about how much we'd enjoy living in a homogeneous white community.

Also a reason why we chosen Catford.

but haven't really seen anything on why it was so important that the dogs got out?

Does it stem from keeping dogs as pets being haram and only working dogs allowed?

Having done it I can confirm that it's mostly (but not entirely) white, but certainly not homogeneous. I think if I didn't still work in London it would be easy to lose the more metropolitan feelings I got living in London.

Yeah, to be fair, our homogeneous opinion might be related to where we were looking more than anything.

Have you considered a smaller city? Plenty of them about. Some of them offer both cosmopolitanism and quick access to the countryside.

I moved from the East Midlands to Brighton and felt like this lol

Yup, like Sheffield.

We have actually. Still thinking thigs through though.

I live in a small village on the outskirts of High Wycombe, the village itself is fairly white but High Wycombe is very ethnically diverse and at my son's school he is in a minority as a white kid. The countryside doesn't always equal no brown people.

I used to live in Hazlemere! Wasn't very diverse there 30 years ago.

Rather strange, this. Not sure how reading outdated literature written by white people is going to open this individual’s eyes to the error of his ways. Hmm…

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/01/judge-orders-rightwing-extremist-to-read-classic-literature-or-face-prison

After visiting NI for the first time in far too long, I fell in love with the beaches along the Ards Penninsula (not the lough side, the Irish Sea side). I could get a house there with basically a private beach, but then I'd have to live with not only racists, but worse, loyalists.

Lucky guy: western name; white skin. Could have been doing serious time otherwise.

because people that want to enslave minorities and slaughter people on an industrial scale for the crime of not being white just need a bit of positive reinforcement and then they'll be fixed!

pretty sure Shakespeare is choc full of anti semitic stereotypes so he'll enjoy that.

look at this chinless, snaggletoothed fuck. behold the master race indeed.

Judge literally said ‘He has, by the skin of his teeth, avoided imprisonment’. Does it display good judgement for a judge to go on the record saying this, in this day and age, to a white person to whom they just did a massive favour?

Also a reason why we chosen Catford.

I have bad news for you then, @amey is even whiter than you.

I suspect the lenient sentence is more down to the fact that the prosecution conceded that there was no evidence that he was a terrorist threat or planning to act on his beliefs, and that he was not part of a wider right wing group. I would have thought that sentencing is roughly aligned with risk factors in cases like these.

Imagine your own lawyers arguing to the court that you had literally no friends and nobody to talk to, not even online.

Edit: Here's the sentencing guidelines for his particular crime (collecting information likely to be useful for preparing a terrorist act) https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magistrates-court/item/collection-of-terrorist-information/

If you can't be arsed to read, the judge had the option of sentencing him to between "a high level community order" and 2 years custodial, depending on various things explained in that link. In my view , a two year suspended sentence and 2 years on license appears to be right in the middle of available sentences.

In my view , a two year suspended sentence and 2 years on license appears to be right in the middle of available sentences.

But having to read the Barchester Chronicles puts it straight into top end.

Yeah, to be fair, there was no mention of providing a reading list as a condition of avoiding a custodial sentence. That much is batshit!