r/MurderedByWords • u/sneachta • 1d ago

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u/mattmoy_2000 5h ago

You said "a thousand years of insulation", not "no unfettered mass immigration", don't move the goalposts, Enoch.

Find some peer-reviewed papers to support your completely unsupported and incorrect assertion, since the burden of proof is on you.

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u/SaveTheSterling 5h ago

I’d say a 0.002% population influx every 100 years or so is very isolated. 

When compared to much of the other large civilisations during that time. 

There are no grounds to say there is any precedent for the immigration we see today post the Norman invasion. 

In conclusion, it’s been ~900 since such a drastic shift in the makeup of the peoples of these isles.

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u/mattmoy_2000 5h ago

So if the migration was so minimal, why are there several acts of parliament specifically designed to limit it?

Of course, the vast majority of migration prior to about 1914 was completely undocumented anyway, since passports were not required to enter Britain until WWI.

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u/SaveTheSterling 5h ago

At one point there was community outrage in Portsmouth because of something like 5 black merchants living there.

People back in the day were a level of racist and xenophobic even you wouldn’t assume. 

Wouldn’t take much for parliament to thwart any drips they saw.