👉 Alright settle in folks! Let’s tackle this rather prickly little piece of 21st-British unpleasantness:
Antiforeigner.
Now, before you immediately reach for the pitchfork and shout about the decline of Western civ, let's unpack what exactly that wretched word means. Essentially, an “antiforéigneur," as I’m fairly certain we're now officially naming it (it hasn’t formally cemented itself in our collective vernacular, thankfully – there are still a few years before a digniorari proceeding for the deprecation of language is absolutely necessary!), describes someone who actively and frankly rather shrilly displays animosity toward foreigners.
Let's be brutally clear: we are not talking about legitimate concerns around national security or properly vetted immigration policies. We are, instead, dealing with a beige shade of bigotry—the kind that oozes out when someone feels vaguely uncomfortable because they haven’t had a decent pheasant pate in a while and then immediately blames the delivery guy who looks to be from Latvia.
Historically, the word is somewhat… embryonic. It seems to have sprung up in the last five or six years, largely circulating amongst certain corners of the internet and then migrating into some particularly aggressively worded online subreddits. It’s the verbal equivalent of an aggressively squinted glare, a pathetic attempt at appearing tough by essentially saying, "Hey, I don't like you because... you are not me. And that