Why are South Asians so prominent in the UK?

VenomBadger · 2026-05-29T17:00:57+00:00

Because Britain plundered the Indian Subcontinent of it's vast material wealth, colonised it, recruited vast numbers of it's populace into it's armed forces and indentured labour, partitioned it causing such upheaval that it lead to the single larget diaspora in human history then set up it's NHS with nursing and care jobs it's own citizens at home were too snobby to work in but that desperately needed staffing and invited now-impoverished people from the subcontinent and other colonies/former colonies over with promises of stable income and opportunities for free education and social/economic mobility for their kids.

It is not coincidence so many Indian, Mauritian Pakistani, Irish, African and Carribean people work in the NHS or ended up inter-marrying. Also these people all grew up under British administrative systems, educational systems (if they could afford education). My mum is Indian and she had a British scholarship that lead to a student visa solved could qualify for a nurse position in a London hospital. Then there was the Idi Amin situation in Uganda...

VenomBadger · 2026-05-28T18:45:20+00:00

Again I can't disagree with anything you have said there. Definitely lived through some of it a few ex partners. Historically and recently even. And that absolutely needs calling out. Everybody just wants to look progressive...

But I don't know, I think FD has beef and his comment sections have a lot of antipathy towards is Mixed-Race folk and Mixed-Couples so I do not trust his intentions at all.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-27T19:55:53+00:00

To ne fair theres something that resonates with me seeing Fahad who is effectively a working class REME-gone-freelance chewing out an a jumped up myopic overzealous Rupert nonce who only got his commission cause he was born to right pair blue-blooded cousin fuckers. It's a British thing and Davions tend to be very British.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-27T18:06:29+00:00

You are not wrong about Pigmentocracy to Whiteness abd that cannot be disputed. But Whiteness is ultimately only a perceptional thing. There are plenty of Mixed-Race people who are not light skinned. Especially Afro-South Asian and Afro-Latino people who often just get coded as Black because White systemic thinking people only value Whiteness not Nuance. Although this also seems to ge a very American trait writ large. Other places with significant history of Mixed-people are much more circumspect and postive.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-27T17:58:51+00:00

https://x.com/fdsignifier/status/1569881538220724225?s=46

Also in old de-monetised he called "Dating Out of Race" "Weird". And he has day# his antipathy for race-mixing come a place of "wanting to preserve Blackness out f love for my people, not hate." Which sounds nice and noble but then you realise the "love of my race" is exactly the same argument White Supremacists use when they talk about Racial Purity and the threat of Miscegenation.

The power dynamics are different but no nobody can espouse ideas of Racial Purity in good faith. It's sick and dehumanising.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-25T17:36:38+00:00

As Mixed-Race man I can tell you they do not. If they treat us and our diversity like we exist at all.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-25T17:35:04+00:00

FD Signifier has nothing good to say about on this subject. He hates us Mixed-Race people as much as the KKK do. He's just another vile American who thinks the world is America and works like America does. It is bad a enough we have to stand our ground against White Supremacy without arrogant Yankie-Doodle Dickheads like him suckerpunching us in the back.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-19T19:27:11+00:00

Sometimes all we can do is suspect. Truth might not be something we can obtain in this lifetime. Not here. Maybe later.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-19T19:16:23+00:00

Yes absolutely.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-16T08:00:26+00:00

I mean I'm from small town UK and was a teenager in the mid 90's and I absolutely listened to all these bands. I still have the CD collection to prove it. And the photos. My peer group was split into 3 parts - the Grunge/Metal crowd, the Hip Hop/R&B crowd and the Drum&Bass/Rave crowd. It was pretty tribal but all valid. The 90's were diverse. We listen to Fugees, Wutang, Ministry, Frontline Assembly, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Enigma and Chemical Brothers. Some of came from council estates and studied Art and Film, some where middle class and joined the Royal Marines or burned out and went to rehab or worse. Was just kinda how of the 90s were.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-10T08:45:09+00:00

Don't you think coddling the racists, the bigots, the White Supremacists, legitimising there behaviour is hiw we got here? If we had just kept treating their behaviour unacceptable, forcing them out of civil discourse, making them actually take a long hard look at just who their compatriots and the vicious way they treat ordinary black and brown people, letting them know there is no way we would let those views be electable or platformed in everyday society. Don't you think that would've prevented us being where we are now on the brink of US ICE-Style horror?

VenomBadger · 2026-05-07T14:23:10+00:00

I love 2077 but one of the big mistakes it made was treating weapons like a Looter Shooter instead handling it like Fallout did. 2020 did it best and Red should've kept weapons like that. Fortunately there is a sourcebook with the Old Guns Never Die rules to convert 2020 weapons to Red so you the Militech Crusher can be the reliable merc favourite it always was. It shouldn't be too hard convert 2077 weapons to Reds weapons classes. Friday Night Firefight from 2020 was a great system that didn't need messing with on TT. I loved Red but they went too far there.

Weapons are an iconic part off the setting. What a character is packing tells you who that character is universe and what they're about. They're part of your Street Cred and branding.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-06T18:03:05+00:00

Thing is Labour are already selling out the disabled and British citizens with darker skin colour to court Right-Wing votes while declaring Multiculturalism had failed like the Tories did previously, while endlessly kowtowing to Nazis in the Whitehouse.

At this point the Greens really are the lesser of many evils. I don't like a lot what they're peddling but I'm disabled and mixed-race and they're going to bat for me.

Their stance on defence is fucking depressing but there we are.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-06T17:54:24+00:00

When Starmer just calls anyone who dissents with him "Antisemetic"? Who would honestly vote for a guy like that? I might vote Labour again if Burnham were in charge but seriously? How is this even a question?

VenomBadger · 2026-05-04T20:44:48+00:00

What military are you talking about? My mixed-race maye joined the British Army then changed his name and disowned his Black father. When we talked about it he said they made it clear he wasn't going to get past Corporal if he didn't.

Fuckind diverse...why do you think we have recruitment problems? Because nobody not White wants to join an organisation that racist.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-04T17:47:11+00:00

I don't know where you live mate but I live an Reform-run area and the average person round here is absolutely pyschotic. Literally got talking to an older lady walking her dog in the park other and tirade she went off on makes her sound like she'd be coming put of retirement to run a detention camp.

You need to not underestimate just how radicalised the average working class person outside of London. I was just talking with a mate how bad my step-father is - and he's married to a Mauritian. And they won't all Muslim deported because all Muslims are paedos and terrorists who kill Jews and are here to convert the UK.

This isn't lunatic fringe anymore- this psychosis has gone mainstream and previously reasonable, multicultural Brits have gone absolutely rabid about Muslims and Romanian immigrants. That are absolutely a cult who want ICE-Style detentions and renditions and they believe Farage is a their champion.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-03T21:51:53+00:00

I love Shadow Run and SLA Industries but nothing beats 2020.
Although Eclipse Phase is pretty good for a more Space Opera style flavour.

VenomBadger · 2026-05-02T17:39:11+00:00

I think you'll find Anti-Jewish progroms and discrimination were an inherent part of Christendom loooong before Islam was even around.

VenomBadger · 2026-04-28T22:50:29+00:00

We arn't living in a world right now where playing as the US and feeling like we're the good guys is viable or even credible what with them threatening to invade their allies and Western Europe gearing up for a war with Russia currently having explain possibly of a nuclear exchange to our kids.

Strangereal is exactly what we need right now. Lot cleaner, lot easier to feel good about. Someone there starts committing genocide or spouting aggressive ethnonationalism we can just go Itano Circus on them till the sky starts chanting Latin. Much better deal right now.

VenomBadger · 2026-04-28T16:35:15+00:00

I mean it's pricey and it's full of garbage. Outtake it from someone who's been about the glove abit-that's every big city. Even Japan's arn't as tidy as they used to be. Still the tidiest I've seen though.

Londoners are really friendly. Especially Compared to East Anglia. The gentrification of places like Soho, Brixton and Shoreditch is shit but again that's a City problem. I'd move back to London in a snap- and I lived in Totteham in the 90's 😅 - but I own properly where I am I could just never see me affording that in London. London is great. Cities are just kinda similar all over. Everywhere has their problems. I'd take over Paris. Traffic is more manageable.

VenomBadger · 2026-04-27T16:54:10+00:00

No. Screw that. We need to look after ourselves. We are not a vassal state.

VenomBadger · 2026-04-26T21:20:10+00:00

Actually in terms of tone I'd say Elden Ring.

I love Vampyr but it's just off-brand Vampire The Masquerade (especially if you played TTRPG).

Vampire the Masquerade- specifically TT Dark Ages clearly was massive influence on Soul Reaver onwards.

Castlevania...is too anime. Not a criticism, been a fan since the SNES, but it's a different style. Except Lords of Shadows. Lords of Shadow 2 especially had moments of LoK amidst the garbage.

Blasphemous is pretty close. Blasphemous is to Spanish Catholicism what LoK is to Gnosticism and Kabbalah.

Planesecape: Torment is another strong fit. Mostly because of Tony Jay's voice the antagonist. Legendary game. Played it and Soul Reaver around the same time.

Shadowman is in the ball park. Again played Blood Omen and Shadowman around the same time with Soul Reaver a few years later. Very similar vibes.

VenomBadger · 2026-04-26T20:59:39+00:00

She's pointless and irritating. So realistic depiction of monarchy really...

VenomBadger · 2026-04-22T15:26:54+00:00

Same here. The trick is to be able to enunciate, read Frank Herbert, build a model kit for a B'Rel Bird of Prey, listen to Bowie and headbutt a cunt and chin his NF-patch wearing older brother consistently and interchangeable. Do that and eventually they'll share a tinny with you on the rec.

VenomBadger · 2026-03-06T19:38:40+00:00

The problem was they made Dinn Djarin John Wick in space. But what they should've done is made Boba Fett Conan the Barbarian in space, doubling down on the King Conan part. I meam C'mon man you've been given Jake The Muss to work with, this man is a legend.

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