It certainly appears to be a temperature-dependent activity. Racists don't like the cold, it seems. But that spike this year is against the previous trends. No denying that.
This is indeed weird and puzzling. Maybe it's something to do with election cycles. Or maybe the search tool has just gone haywire.Actually this reminds me of a thread I made a few years back on Google search trends over time, and a strange cyclical pattern of people Googling for the term 'nationalism'. Nothing to do with this thread btw, just really puzzling.
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It's like the fluctuating reports of domestic abuse - higher in the school holidays (although I seem to recall there's a spike in people leaving abusive partners after holiday periods, perhaps when more opportunity to actually leave.)
Go on shoot me, but I'm getting sick of the constant minimising, denying, blaming and rationalising of racist, xenophobic attacks. Same tactics being used to defend the shit spewing out of Donald Trump's mouth as well.
All I can see you offering is excuses for racism and xenophobia and how hurt your fee fees are when people criticise your support for leaving the EU. Boo bloody hoo.
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It's like the fluctuating reports of domestic abuse - higher in the school holidays (although I seem to recall there's a spike in people leaving abusive partners after holiday periods, perhaps when more opportunity to actually leave.)
Go on shoot me, but I'm getting sick of the constant minimising, denying, blaming and rationalising of racist, xenophobic attacks. Same tactics being used to defend the shit spewing out of Donald Trump's mouth as well.
Soz, I meant the spike in (reported) racist attacks, not the googling of nationalism. It's a weird pattern, but there's all sorts of contexts in which you could google "nationalism," so I don't think that chart tells us much.
Absolutely, in Poland, a Polish person can be xenophobic towards a non Polish person or racist towards a non white person.
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It's like the fluctuating reports of domestic abuse - higher in the school holidays (although I seem to recall there's a spike in people leaving abusive partners after holiday periods, perhaps when more opportunity to actually leave.)
Go on shoot me, but I'm getting sick of the constant minimising, denying, blaming and rationalising of racist, xenophobic attacks. Same tactics being used to defend the shit spewing out of Donald Trump's mouth as well.
I really hate the id politics angle of arguing over who's capable of what. Everyone is capable of bigotry, including racism and xenophobia, wherever they are. The absurd redefining of racism, for instance, so that certain groups can't be racist is patently absurd. Can we take that as a given?
Yep. Agreed. And do some Polish people have really dodgy attitudes? Of course they do.
I think there was a lot of that. And the 'fuck off' option was clearly 'leave'. I don't blame people for doing that - 'now is shit, this is change, bring on the change, particularly as a load of cunts want no change' is not an unreasonable position - the failure is elsewhere.
Well, show me the right end of this stick that I can't seem to see then.
Good point. My point would be that many people voting essentially 'fuck you' probably had no particular idea about what post-Brexit Britain would be. Any referendum is always to an extent a test of how many people are happy with the status quo.
