a very uncharacteristic way

for a british person to

respond to a democratic vote

Yes, the reason I sent this is because …. the two of them [i.e. who Adam describes as a ‘black man, and a white woman who married an Asian and raised two ethnically-diverse children’] were repeatedly called ‘racist’ by crowds of white people which you know … like the inability of people nowadays and on all sides, I’m not saying this is a particularly a Remainer thing…  I do occasionally use the term ‘Remoaner’ to differentiate from ‘Remainer’, because most people I know who voted Remain are quite reasonable people and accepted the result, and when I say ‘Remoaner’ I mean those who refuse to accept the result and what they tend to do is demonise the other side, caricature them not engaging in a sensible conversation but simply to say ‘no, that person is racist’, ‘that person is xenophobic’, ‘that person is an idiot’, ‘that person’s from a deprived background’ blah, blah, blah, rather than actually try to engage and understand or even just respect the result…  So, yeah, so, when I use the term ‘Remoaner’ that’s what I mean, it’s a very specific type of person who voted Remain and then responded in a very un, a way that’s not characteristic of British at all, it’s a very uncharacteristic way for a British person to respond to a democratic vote.

Quote from interview with Adam, January 2021. Adam describes himself as ‘British’. He explains how he has a ‘white British mother’ and his father is ‘ethnically Indian and a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom’. He is in his forties and lives in the South West. Adam also explains that ‘like all of his ethnically diverse family’, he voted to leave in the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU.