Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?

Post by w0de0 » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 8:40 PM UTC

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Ah, friend, America was importing people from Africa. Indeed “import” is rather more apt in this case than the several other you’ve ignored (e.g. the mass immigration from Vietnam at the finish of that war). What a horridly dull country it would be were your understanding nearer the truth; what a betrayal of its dream to wish it as you see it; how silly you would seem to your know-nothing antecedents so lumping “Euro…

Up until 1965 the US had strict origin requirements for where immigrants could come from and it was capped at a relatively low number throughout much of the 20th century. Yes actually up until 1990 the US was overwhelmingly European ancestry, just go look at any demographic data from before 1990. Many states were 90+% white and indeed many were even higher. The places with African slave descendants in the US were the…

Post by Dig1t » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

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Up until 1965 the US had strict origin requirements for where immigrants could come from and it was capped at a relatively low number throughout much of the 20th century. Yes actually up until 1990 the US was overwhelmingly European ancestry, just go look at any demographic data from before 1990. Many states were 90+% white and indeed many were even higher. The places with African slave descendants in the US were the…

In which specifics does “low social trust” differ from “high xenophobia”? Is fear of the other a morally neutral emotion? Do you suppose your response to an ethnically or culturally different neighbor differs from some your ancestors’? If it does, would you say your response is morally superior? If so, why? If so, how did you acquire your more enlightened approach?

Post by archagon » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 5:58 AM UTC

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It could well be the case that the growth of white identitarianism is almost entirely driven by white supremacist media moguls, who are unfathomably rich and shape the zeitgeist to a large degree. See also: antisemitism in Nazi Germany. I’m sure some Jewish people committed serious crimes against non-Jewish Germans. But that was incidental, not causal, to the vile propaganda that eventually led to the Holocaust.

It could be, but I really don't think so. The splintering of Reform UK and then Restore Britain strongly suggests to me that there's a mass movement. If it were a plot by media moguls, I would have expected them to carefully manage discontent to keep people within the Tories.

Post by jiddert8 » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

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Sad to see this nonsense on hacker new, looks like a bot account.

Please just flag egregious comments or email us (hn@ycombinator.com) if it seems like something needs moderator attention. We've had bad stuff on HN since the start. We can deal with it easily if we know about it.