Australia

This was really sad. My family and I went to this today in Brisbane, our best friend said their friends were afraid to go out to lunch with them today, because their parents were verbally assaulted in a grocery store on Friday for being immigrants.

My husband stood there in his suit, I stood in my pretty dress with flowers, our daughters held signs that said things like "so bad even the introverts are here".

The March was not peaceful and was definitely racist. We started off to the side, sitting with flags my daughters and I made with hundreds of countries on them, and eventually we were swarmed as the crowd veered to come right past us.

They screamed obscenities at us, pushed into me, pushed my husband, tried to rip the sign from his hands. They ripped down the flags we made. Blew an air horn in our faces.

Many claimed they were not racist but my husband got called a f-ing Jew multiple times??? Maybe it was the beard and the hat, I don't know.

Eventually police came and stood in front of us while we packed our things and left. We would do it again, in a heartbeat.

Before the rowdy crowd came looking for trouble we had immigrants come up and thank us, hug us, and we want them to know that not everyone agrees with this march.

Not wanting immigration is not what this march was about. This march was about fear and racism.

This is a huge deflection from real issues. Rich cunts got richer, monopolizing our countries abundance of natural wealth and stacking the system in their favour through decades of government lobbying and corruption. Then they pay some fuckwit influencers to push the line that its the immigrant's fault. They have been doing this shit for at least a century and its so fucking obvious if you spend 5 minutes researching shit.

BTW Immigration rates are high, not because of bleeding heart lefties, but because rich people have a pyramid scheme based on population growth pushing up property prices and want us to keep fighting for jobs so we aren't in a position to demand better wages.

Immigration levels are too high because it benefits rich cunts. Join a union or environmental groups and vote on your own self interest and don't be a sucker.

15k was the largest, so just a small bunch of luddites so far... that will grow larger as the US and billionaires continue their fascist culture wars, and our corporate-whore government continue to sow the seeds for fascism through the destruction of the working classes economic and housing security.

Feel sorry for the ASIO guys that have to update the right-wing nutcase watchlist. That's a lot of Nazis.

Is this more or less ironic than American xenophobia?

This happens in Mexico too. People are tired of foreigners coming in, and snatching up scarce resources like housing, driving up the costs for everyone else. Australia has some of the highest housing costs in the world. This is liberal policy blowback.