“I’m frustrated that when people of colour spoke about our lived experiences of racism before, we were dismissed and told to stop exaggerating,” one critic said.

In response to a rise in racist and xenophobic attacks reported across the UK post-Brexit, an American woman living in London suggested people wear safety pins to show solidarity towards EU citizens and other communities who are targets of abuse.

Kashmir Meat & Poultry in Walsall, West Midlands, which was attacked by a petrol bomb this week.

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Allison, who didn't want to reveal her last name, told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday why she started the #safetypin campaign: "I thought about something that would cost nothing and had no political affiliation. Something that says, ‘I am a safe space, you can sit next to me, you can talk to me, you can ask me for a help'."

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