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Wow, I didn’t realize that DHH had gone off the rails* into full-on white nationalism: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

It’s fucked how normalized this sort of “Britain/US for Whites” rhetoric has become over the last few years. London is and always will be a global city. And praising Tommy Robinson as some sort of hero surely involves a degree of brain damage.

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Honest question: would it be any different if someone were to write a piece complaining about the cultural identity of, say, Japan being lost due to American or European immigrants/tourists?

Also what is your opinion on gentrification?

I don’t see a lot of people talking about Britain losing its cultural identity without also using dehumanizing language to describe the “invaders.” I mean, look at the closer to this article:

> You survived the Blitz. Britain will be back.

It’s pretty clear that the author thinks that Britain is at war and that the “invaders” are not real Brits, regardless of their legal status. Given the political coalition that DHH seems to proudly support, I assume he would be in favor of “remigration” (forceful expulsion of non-whites) just like Musk and others in these circles.

This is all just very faintly disguised racism.

FWIW, if someone wrote an article talking about how they respect London’s diversity, and how immigrants bring value to the country, but that the ratio of native to immigrant feels off, I would at least respect that (while disagreeing).

I agree I think he probably goes too far in that post. Some of what he says at the beginning sounds like an opinion on cultural displacement (perhaps a reasonable discussion), but he veers into more fear-mongering and generalizations about specific groups.

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