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muriel_volestrangler

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8. The worst online racists are sticking to their guns

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sun Sep 12, 2021, 08:14 AM

Sep 2021

On a British forum, the most racist poster said "not exactly an English Rose" and "it's always nicer when your sporting heroes look like they actually belong in the country they are representing", which another anti-immigrant poster called "harsh, even for you".

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All of the gammons could not be more predictable this morning [View all] Soph0571 Sep 2021 OP

I had to go look up 'gammony' and hoo boy does it have a lot of different abqtommy Sep 2021 #1

thanks-- I was wondering about that too LymphocyteLover Sep 2021 #4

Mega hypocrisy of doing in plain sight what you accuse others of doing is now a replicable strategy bucolic_frolic Sep 2021 #2

Agreed PoliWrangler Sep 2021 #6

I suspect that Dock and Farago have pinups of Thatcher, Mosley, and self portraits over their beds. GoneOffShore Sep 2021 #3

I suspect that the vast majority of Americans Fortinbras Armstrong Sep 2021 #5

Ah, you give them too much credit. Both are definitely crass enough to have pictures of Mosley. GoneOffShore Sep 2021 #10

Those Farage burblings, so his opportunist hypocrisy is preserved for posterity in all its glory: Emrys Sep 2021 #7

The worst online racists are sticking to their guns muriel_volestrangler Sep 2021 #8

A kind explanation of Morgan's behaviour T_i_B Sep 2021 #9

Well, it's been shown that their followers are goldfish. GoneOffShore Sep 2021 #11