Do you recall how just last year Britain was being overwhelmed by racism?

The mainstream news media, particularly the center-left leaning media, insisted that just one thing, and only one thing, could explain the Brexit vote.

‘A frenzy of hatred’: how to understand Brexit racism

Brexit is racist

The Brexit debate has made Britain more racist

The uncomfortable question: Was the Brexit vote based on racism?

Of course it was based on racism! What else could it have possibly been based on except for irrational hate?

Oh sure, exit polls show that sovereignty, not immigration, was the single biggest reason for Brexit. But liberals know that all racists lie, don't they?

More importantly, being an opponent of open borders automatically qualifies you as a racist, because there is no possible nuance on this issue. Wealthy liberals know that this single data point defines everything about you as a person.



Plus, the most reliable indicator of the Brexit vote was class, but that only means poor white people are more racists (which liberals always suspected).



But for the most part, class was the deciding factor in the vote. This, for me, is the most breathtaking fact: of the 50 areas of Britain that have the highest number of people in social classes D and E — semi-skilled and unskilled workers and unemployed people — only three voted Remain. Three. That means 47 very poor areas, in unison, said no to the thing the establishment insisted they should say yes to.

This led to a full year of "tsk tsk'ing" by wealthy and comfortable white liberals while sadly shaking of heads in a condescending way, occasionally interrupted by angry rants at the racism of poor, working class whites. "Why, oh why, didn't they vote the way we told them to vote?"

And then the racists suddenly decided to stop being racist

In what has got to be a first in human history, millions upon millions of die-hard racists suddenly stopped being racist.

It's amazing!



Progressives vilified those who had the temerity to reject Brussels. Anyone who wanted to leave the EU was deemed to be a racist, a caveman, an irrational nationalist and even a drunk fool. However today – exactly one year later – after the performance of Jeremy Corbyn in the recent British election, progressives everywhere are excited and optimistic about the British voters. Some are even talking about a “soft” Brexit or even no Brexit. But does this mood swing among progressives – one year they see Hitler and the next they see Jesus – make sense? Has Britain changed so much in a year? Or are progressives completely misreading Britain’s electorate? Did all those immigrant-haters suddenly disappear or were they even there in the first place?

If the hatred of immigration was the driving force of the Brexit vote last year then it would have manifested itself again in this year’s general election. But it didn’t. On the contrary it disappeared from view. The only political party that made immigration a big issue in recent years – UKIP (the United Kingdom Independence Party) – was destroyed in the recent election. This suggests that immigration was and is a superficial issue amongst the British electorate.

Admittedly, that is curious.

But what else could the poor working class care about except for irrational hatred? It's not like they think about things and reason them out. Only the better people of the wealthier classes do that.

We could look at the data, which shows some anger at their economic conditions.But who cares about that, amirite?

We could, of course, ask them, but it's easier to judge them based on single data points. Very much like how Trump voters are all hopeless racists, but that would suddenly change if they vote for a neoliberal Democrat next time, like when they voted for Obama.

Thus there is only one possible conclusion that can be drawn from this:

Britain's poor white working class suddenly started listening to their betters (i.e. wealthy and comfortable liberals) and decided to stop being racists.

We should congratulate them for finally starting to see the light.

Now vote for a Blairite next time and we will forgive you.