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Sure but Brexit voters caused loss of rights for us EU citizens here and Brits abroad.
They don't care mostly. Barely anybody said anything.
Now I do think media and politics play a big role in encouraging this, and many seem unaware of the origin of their feelings or thoughts. So they cannot distance themselves.
And how many voters pure denied problems cos that's just humans. "No my political party would never be that mean"
But often it comes down to moving on / forgiving on the part of the wronged party and the arseholery continues.
Maybe people are just pure ignorant but just ignoring hurt doesn't work I think. That's what is happening now "you got EUSS just move on"
Sure after years of passive agression for me and actual agression for others... See the problem?
JWestland-
When I was training to be a doctor someone asked me what I wanted to do and I said "paediatrician - because adults just smoke and drink themselves to death and it's all their fault, whereas the kids are innocent" (or something along those lines).
The response I got was this:
What about the 19 year old single mother of two kids who left school age 15 because she had her first child, now lives unsupported by her (ex)partner in a tiny little council flat on the 12th floor of a horrible estate, sees all the tobacco advertising when she goes out every day to take her kids to the nursery and sign on, and her 5 minutes of peace in the evening when the kids are crying is to step outside on the balcony and smoke a cigarette. Is it her fault (and her choice) to kill herself through smoking? Or is that something that society (and her poor upbringing and lack of education) has conditioned her into?I'm a Brit living in France. I've not been able to see my family in the UK for the last 18+ months because I couldn't afford the travel (spending time in quarantine, the cost of the obligatory PCR tests etc). I am fully aware of the loss of rights and the xenophobia and racism that is going on.
I agree that ignoring hurt doesn't work. I'm not saying ignore it. I'm saying acknowledge it - which I think is what you're saying. But that doesn't mean calling people cunts, or playing blame games. I think it means trying to understand where the other people are coming from, what brought them to vote Brexit in the first place, what their hopes and fears are, and how they - we! - might overcome them (together). I'm against the 'divide and conquer' that is rife in society today. I'd like to (re)build bridges and figure out how we can all leave peacefully together.
Or am I a dreamer? Maybe yes, but I'd like to think that there's a better world we can make together. Call me a cunt if you want, my shoulders are broad and my skin thick, I'll love you anyway.
d0cA
Sorry @eskay but this is just completely wrong. No one is a cunt. I rather wonder why they feel the need to hate some so much in the first place - as the old adage says, hate breeds hate. So don't feed them please.
Instead, maybe question why we're (you're - I live in France now, but it's not actually that dissimilar here) are such a divided society? That is the real problem I would say... Divided we fall: and we are definitely falling far. How can we repair that? How can we bridge the gaps and work together again? What are the things that mean in fact we're all the same? I assure you, there are many.