Dan Snow had the perfect response to Leave EU’s outrageous xenophobia
You’ll probably have seen by now the Leave EU message shared on its Twitter account yesterday, which there’s no need to repeat (but you can read 14 very appropriate responses here).
We only mention it again because historian Dan Snow went viral with this tweet which might be our favourite response of all.
An unsere deutschen Brüder und Schwestern: diese Extremisten und Fanatiker sprechen nicht für uns. Was auch immer mit Brexit passiert, bitte wissen Sie, dass Sie für Millionen von uns Freunde, Verbündete, Kollegen und Partner bleiben.
— Dan Snow (@thehistoryguy) October 9, 2019
Nicely done, @thehistoryguy.
And if, like us, your German isn’t quite as good as it might be, here it is again, via Google Translate.
‘To our German brothers and sisters: these extremists and fanatics do not speak for us. Whatever happens to Brexit, please know that you will remain friends, allies, colleagues, and partners for millions of us.’
And this chap joined in.
Ich bin ein stolzer Engländer, genau gesagt, ich bin ein stolzer Europäischer Engländer. Meine Zukunft und deren von Millionen anderen Briten wird von klein karierten radikalen zerstört.
— Liam Arstall, Esq. (@larstall) October 9, 2019
‘I am a proud Englishman, to be precise, I am a proud European Englishman. My future and that of millions of other Britons is being destroyed by little-known radicals.’
Und so sagen wir alle. https://t.co/3rL15pUVTv
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) October 9, 2019
We also liked this (no need for Google Translate this time).
We didn’t win two world wars to become a nasty, arrogant, bigoted, isolationist country that forgot the lessons of history as well as the cost of winning and sustaining peace
— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) October 8, 2019
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