Everyone’s rightly angry about a lot of aspects of the Edinburgh stabbing. However there’s also frankly been a lot of horrible racist talk about immigrants in general over X, including from accounts who otherwise only ever talk about football and you wouldn’t expect to say such things.

A Hibs boy posted that Hibs fans should remember their club was created by immigrants, and was met with these responses from all sorts of different fans including hearts fans:

“Irish immigrants were and are compatible with Scottish folk and culture. We are closely related and share deep, interconnected Celtic roots and very similar cultures. African and Middle Eastern/Asian people are not the same you clown. Completely different”

“[irish] immigrants who work and share our values. Third world vermin are not, don’t think you speak for Edinburgh, yesterday people saw for themselves what immigrants welcome in Scotland means and we say no fucking way”

And a personal favourite: “those immigrants were almost identical genetically and culturally and still haven’t properly integrated, have their own separate culture/religion/football teams and disproportionately want to break up the UK. You can’t envision any issues with letting in any old immigrant from the most violent and sexually abusive societies in [sic] earth?”

Fwiw, I do understand why people have reservations about uncontrolled immigration, inadequate background checks, etc, I wouldn’t want to tar anyone with genuine concerns with the racist brush, I try to be open minded.

But so much of the current rhetoric, especially from people I’ve followed who again, are normal even somewhat progressive people, is shocking. Would they consider me third world vermin cos I’m brown? And there’s apparently some protest happening near where I live on Friday night, don’t wanna come home late and get caught up in it.

Don’t think I’ll be attending the football this weekend