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"not one of them is a racist zombie either"

How sure are you about that? I was surprised by the number of people who have been holding some unpleasant opinions secret forever, and then felt safe to express them for a short while following the Brexit vote. It seems to have become unacceptable again, but it turned out more people than I realised were holding these views.

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Fairly certain. I know people who voted to remain in the EU, and people who voted to leave the EU. None of them are racists; they had valid reasons for voting the way they did, and none of them are planning to leave the UK due to us leaving the EU.

I regularly see people mouthing off on forums about how they're going to leave their respective countries because they're not happy they didn't get their way in one vote or another. But do I see people ever say that they have left their countries? Pretty much never.

Here's one :)

That's because as soon as we leave, we forget about domestic politics in the old country and stop reading those forums.

We're too busy whining about domestic politics in the new one and talking about how we're going to leave it :).

I do think something is a bit wrong when people feel unsafe expressing their opinions. An opinion unexpressed is an opinion unchallenged.

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