Gingers targeted in West Yorkshire

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This article concerns recent targeted attacks on gingers.

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/police-figures-reveal-shocking-rise-22639141

When I was in my early twenties I was visibly ginger & I got chased a few times down the street whilst being called a "ginger bastard."

I also got picked on in random places. I nearly got physically assaulted on a coach by two immigrants. They kept throwing empty plastic bottles at my head and then followed me through a bus/coach station and they were on the cusp of starting a physical assault on me, before my parents were randomly waiting for me (I didn't even expect them and my phone battery had died).

God-like luck right there.

Why are they so despised?

It maybe America's fault that British youth have gone to hell in a hand basket.

In fact ...I am sure the TV show South Park single-handedly brought down the British Empire all by itself!

But you cant pin this "ginger" thing on the US.

South Park got that from the UK.

"Ginger" is a thoroughly British expression. No American ever called anyone a "ginger" until the 21st century.

American rock fans, like me, in the Seventies had to have it explained to use why the Eric Clapton's drummer "Ginger Baker" was called that because ginger was not yet an epithet, nor a thing at all here.

The N word is American. And even when American Whites hate on each other (other American Whites) they have plenty of ethnic slurs to choose from like Wop, Dago, k*e, Heb, Pollock, Mick, etc because we are land of immigrants. Picking on them because they have red hair just doesnt fit into the American scene the way it would in the UK.

I was called a 'red-headed stepchild' many times as a young adult (my developmental age was a lot younger than my chronological age so it burned quite badly, emotionally.).

It just goes to show that if everyone had the same skin color, there would still be bigotry. Over hair color, or eye color, or freckles, or whatever. There's even been discrimination against left handed people.

Probably in reality though, the ladder rungs are constantly shifting & swapping places.

that's sad, I think red hair is nice especially when its curly.
I have dark brown hair and unfortunately when you have dark hair it shows up on your legs and arms.
Hated summer, at school another reason to get bullied. started shaving them when I was 15 years old.