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UK police show up at man's house because of his offensive username, then drop it after seeing him.
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this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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I see the UK is keeping up their racism. If he were white, he'd be chucked into jail. Meanwhile, everyone supposedly can just become English (as if the English aren't a specific ethnicity, like the Chinese, Japanese, Somalian, etc).
Yes, yes, you can become an "English" citizen, but a dog being born in a stable doesn't make it a horse.
And no, you don't have be some kind of White, Pure, Ubermensch, or some nonsense. Just have one or two English patterns. Not that hard or complex.
Alright tommy. There is an issue with police being used for policing speech but the law requires the police to investigate even if it's completely ridiculous. Seems to be a ham fisted approach to the issue of hate speech.
What do you mean "English" citizen. You (the UK) where keen to make all people part of the UK so there is no Welsh Scottish or Northern Irish citizens. The UK doesn't have birth rite citizenship but if your grandad came over 50 years ago and you have never been in his country and you don't speak "foreign" I don't know what to call you except english.
English is not a race. If you have an issue with black and brown people in your neighborhood then you need to look at the history of white English people going and taking resources and people from where they where and placing them elsewhere.
In the UK the police nominally have the discretion to not enforce the law when it's not in the public interest, so if they genuinely think a case is completely ridiculous, they're free to ignore it. At some point in the story, someone decided it was in the public interest to go after someone for their username.
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I'm not from the UK.
Part of the Common Wealth, not the UK.
Not English either. Only British.
So anyone who can't speak English definitely isn't English? What about people who regularly visit the country their parents came from?
Correct, it's an ethnicity, like Somalians, Armenians, Igbo, Dutch, Quechua, Koreans, etc.
Being able to speak English, and having a white skin does not make me English, because I don't share history nor culture with the English.
Let's say I am English - why could I not complain about non-English people (again, that does not relate to skin colour) supposedly fucking up my neighbourhood? What does that have to do with someone from my culture doing something bad back in history?