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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

haha British rule

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Scottish people out here talking shit about British folks, yet in 2014 they voted against being an independent nation.

Y'all are Brits. Accept it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One, they're talking about English "people," not British people.

Two, that still isn't how it works.

Three, that was before Brexit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One, why did you quote people?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because I'm being racist against English "people"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Genuinely curious about this, do northern English people from say York get the same shit from Scottish people that say a Londoner or someone from the south would?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Barely, and the referendum would've gone the other way any time after 2016.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 127 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"pretentious dick" isn't a race.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love how they just call everything racism

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except actual racism, that's fine plus it happened so long ago stop bringing it up

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One european nation disliking the other: racism

Actual racism: is fine

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well of course...its racism against white people. By other white people. Which is the worst kind of racism, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Truly the definition of racism

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Racism can easily include ethnicities/nationalities such as English and Scottish. The difference doesn't even have to be real considering race as a whole is largely a social construct once you get past the melanin.

Just look at the Irish being excluded from "whiteness" in the 19th century.

Hell, it's in Britain, and there's Old English uses of the term "races of men" that use race to basically mean tribe or clan.

Would it make you feel better to call it "clannishness?"

All that said, I don't think this is the kind of racism, the expression of nationalistic grudges, you need to bust out the placards and start marching in the streets against.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The thing is I consider what you described xenophobia not racism. Racism is purely based on skin colour

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What even is this article?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I see you lied about trying to learn from your mistakes, Whoopi.

Sad.

Be better.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is literally about the nationality of a person (being British). Maybe racism isn't the best word, but it's certainly discrimination.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Lol, it's an individual in their field trying to give a friendly warning to a person who is too entitled to even try to understand the local dialect (not even different language!).

No one is being discriminated against, clown.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

He is speaking Scots though. You can start arguments saying it isn't a language.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

this isn't scots writing, this is someone who is probably not scottish trying to represent scottish english with text

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Jfc with the semantics and completely missing of the point.. It's considered by many a dialect of English and should be understood by other English speakers without too much trouble. There, is that better? 🙄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

the semantics

Ironically enough, you don't seem to know the meaning of the word.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

British people have such the thinnest of skin. Americans have been the center of European jokes for so long and most of us just nod and agree. But British? Like bro, you guys stopped Scottish independence and when they pass positive trans bills y'all get into a hissy fit and fucking step in and stop it. Maybe stop being such fucking dicks first about and maybe the jokes will stop.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

English. Its the English. It's always the English. They ruined England!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Like bro, you guys stopped Scottish

They literally voted not to themselves.

Americans have been the center of European jokes for so long and most of us just nod and agree. But British?

yeah the British are famous for not going along with banter and you should definitely take this one dude on lemmy as a representative example of the entire country.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago

Making fun of British people is the morally correct thing to do at all times.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago (4 children)

More like haha hating privileged people rule

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Yes indeed, and it's not like England has some history with Scotland or anything...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wasn't aware that I'm somehow more privileged than Scottish people.

It could be true, but I was under the impression that privilege in the UK is more about your socioeconomic group than it is your physical location - except maybe London, London gets the best of everything, the fecks :-P

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You'll sound *more authoritative on camera. Is that a privilege?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

If you weren't aware that you're more privileged than the people your empire colonized that's impressive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

has your language been all but wiped out?

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Im always amused watching British people online get pressed by some light banter after their nation spent centuries conquering and subjugating nations around the world. Like, there is no faster way to bunch up a British nationalist panties than by bringing up the falklands, a relatively small war that they ended up wining anyways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I mean 255 Brits died in that war, that is still very much in living memory.

Like im the exact opposite of British nationalist, but of course if you're a dickhead about that people are going to get upset. Thats not a "british bad" moment, thats just you being a cunt.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

racism is when Scots hate Brits

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aye doesn’t mean you aren’t going to ruffle some feathers saying so

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn Scots. They ruined Scotland!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You Scots sure are a contentious bunch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm English. OP can have the E-word pass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's always fair to joke about the British.

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