Hello! Welcome to COTL, a discussion place for BIPOC. Posted the first 3 Wednesdays of the month
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Things are going well, over here in jolly old blighty 🤦🏾♀️:
The British government is pivoting to the right on immigration again (to gain a couple of far-right votes1why would racists be placated by diet-lite reform/fascists, when they can have the real thing at the next election? Also who the hell votes for a party with zero integrity & more importantly trust (to at least a core group)? At least not till most people have forgotten about the party 🤷🏾♀️… & were only really a year in to this abysmal Labour governments stranglehold . Penalising asylum seekers (going against the European Human Rights Court’s laws). Instead of… I dunno helping most people in one of the worst inequitable western societies struggling with a cost of living crisis. ‘Can’t punch up-so must punch down’ governance has always been historically good 🙄🤦🏾♀️.
Prompt: Privilege was brought up last week & i was just wondering how people feel about it? How they combat it? Recommendations? Thoughts?
Feel free to talk about whatever else you’d like.
Hope everyone’s doing okay 🙏🏽.