The implication of many people who voted Remain is that if you chose Brexit, it is somehow racist.
The European Union is an organisation that allows for free movement of people who are citizens of the member countries of the EU. For people who are NOT from EU countries they have limited visas and lots of hoops to jump through if they want to visit or live in an EU country.
The EU is made up of countries mainly populated by white people. In many non-EU countries, whites are a tiny minority. EU citizenship is a very good proxy for colour.
So it means that the EU is an organisation that specifically allows people who are most likely to be white to live where they like while at the same time restricting that freedom to people who are not likely to be white.
Seems pretty racist to me.
If the UK government at some point sets up a points system which scores applicants according to some measure of how likely they are to be a benefit to the UK, it might be colour-blind. The EU system discriminates on a very close proxy for colour, while at the same time having a bunch of laws that do not allow discrimination based on abilities.
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The European Union is an organisation that allows for free movement of people who are citizens of the member countries of the EU. For people who are NOT from EU countries they have limited visas and lots of hoops to jump through if they want to visit or live in an EU country.
The EU is made up of countries mainly populated by white people. In many non-EU countries, whites are a tiny minority. EU citizenship is a very good proxy for colour.
So it means that the EU is an organisation that specifically allows people who are most likely to be white to live where they like while at the same time restricting that freedom to people who are not likely to be white.
Seems pretty racist to me.
If the UK government at some point sets up a points system which scores applicants according to some measure of how likely they are to be a benefit to the UK, it might be colour-blind. The EU system discriminates on a very close proxy for colour, while at the same time having a bunch of laws that do not allow discrimination based on abilities.
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