Holy shit, I had forgotten the face and name of Tommy Robinson. I think I saw his videos posted, unironically, on reddit pre-2016. Then a little bit after that but then it just stopped.
I think back then he was hit and bloodied for something. Sounds like he's the kind of person that would happen to a lot but I think it was caught on video?
My dad, and his family in the UK, seem to follow that same rhetoric. The anti-Muslim headlines. I don't pay attention to UK politics but I have family in Canada who also claim the same things are happening there.
Wasn't there an unofficial "task force" 10+ years ago where some people would walk around in vests labelled as such and were trying to uncover crime or people they deemed "radical?" I forget the name but it wasn't just white folks doing it, there were brown folks as well.