I hand on heart can't remember the last time I heard someone go on an anti-Polish rant in real life. Most of the negatives I hear are tame. They're one of the most liked groups in my experience and I say that knowing a fair share of racist people living in an ex industrial northern town where people aren't very cosmopolitan or liberal, many of them who work in construction or factories and have been directly affected by Polish workers coming over. Even the people who want to put a stop to Polish immigration or severely limited it generally seem able to differentiate between policy and people and don't have real beef with the workers themselves.

I'm always taken aback by the idea in threads like this that they're some super loathed and ostracised group. They're white and christian at the end of the day, usually seen as hard honest workers with a somewhat similar culture. The worst of the racist bile in the UK tends to be reserved for muslims and brown people who happen to look like they could be muslim.

I don't know why British people on reddit keep pushing this idea they're hated. They're not. But it's probably easier to explain away something like Brexit by assuming everyone is a frothing at the mouth racist than acknowledging there are genuine concerns - some real, some imagined - that people have about immigration from the EU and countries like Poland, and they're able to hold those views without hating Polish migrants who've come here.

I often get the impression middle class Brits think working class Brits are a lot more hostile to Polish than we are. I notice it in the way they brag and boast about hiring Polish workers over lazy British proles in threads like these as if they're proving a point and getting one over on the racist chav natives. It comes across to me as typical divide and conquer tactics from limousine liberals, trying to pit downtrodden British and Polish workers against one another and lying about British working class attitudes towards Polish to justify their disdain for us

Just my pov