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> There's nothing in there about not enough British people - only about too many foreigners

It's the same thing, because the motivation for the immigration policy, per the people implementing it, is to avoid demographic collapse.

Generally too many people can also reasonably be considered a problem, if the intended solution to the social services problem is endless exponential growth. Especially on an island.

> (whom he can tell by looking at them)

There are different ethnicities of "white people" who can be told apart by looking. So "he can tell by looking" does not mean that he is applying a racial standard.

Your argument depends on a notion that English, Italians, Germans etc. "all look the same". But last I checked, people who would say the same about, for example, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans would be called racist for that.



> There are different ethnicities of "white people" who can be told apart by looking. So "he can tell by looking" does not mean that he is applying a racial standard.

damn, you are really catching the straws here to defend a racist

It's obvious he meant brown people or anyone that isn't white/european looking.

There is no genetically pure or distinct native British phenotye to set apart other europeans.

Europeans have been mixing themselves for centuries, he obviously knew what he was talking about (non-whites)


I refer you back to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386018. What you say is "obvious" is your completely unsubstantiated perception.

> There is no genetically pure or distinct native British phenotye to set apart other europeans.

Nevertheless, such ancestry can be reliably determined by genetic testing, and Europeans do recognize it by sight. https://blog.23andme.com/articles/23andme-adds-more-detail-f....




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