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It just goes to show that these attitudes don't come about by accident. The more white, disenfranchised people figure out who's really causing the hardship they experience, the harder they are to control. It's in the best interest of those in power to divide the working and middle classes on racial, gender identity, economic background etc lines to prevent them from unifying and actually having the power to demand real change.
It's not hard for most people to see that it's successive governments that have caused the standard of living in this country to drop but as long as they can point to and "other" a group (in this case immigrants/refugees/ people of colour, historically Jewish people, Eastern Europeans etc) as the culprits they can promise to solve the problems that they themselves have created. It's a tale as old as time.
Edit: sorry if that comes across as trying to argue with you Lynx, it's not. It's just my 2p on the topic and yours was a relevant comment to reply to.