The violence has been driven by online disinformation and extremist right-wing groups intent on creating disorder after a deadly knife attack on a children’s event in northwestern England, experts said.A range of far-right factions and individuals, including neo-Nazis, violent soccer fans and anti-Muslim campaigners, have promoted and taken part in the unrest, which has also been stoked by online influencers.

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    3 months ago

    Probably UK’s dire economic situation for working classes

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      Oh riiight of course! Its not islamophobia, xenophobia or racism! These lads just have a lot of economic anxiety!

      And here was me thinking they wanted to burn down mosques because they hate muslims! Oh how stupid I was!

      Clearly if it wasn’t for the price of petrol, rent and Big Macs, these economically anxious upstanding citizens would want to just give every immigrant and every muslim a great big hug!

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      Oh yeah that’s why they were burning cars and smashing people’s windows because of economic factors, sure yeah and not because they’re racist shitheads.

      You need to go get a bit more training in been a bot, because that was pathetic