haha British rule
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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.
One, they're talking about English "people," not British people.
Two, that still isn't how it works.
Three, that was before Brexit.
One, why did you quote people?
Because I'm being racist against English "people"
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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Barely, and the referendum would've gone the other way any time after 2016.
Polls show independence was briefly in the lead for a few months of 2020, but has remained consistently behind otherwise since 2014
haha racism rule
"pretentious dick" isn't a race.
Love how they just call everything racism
Except actual racism, that's fine plus it happened so long ago stop bringing it up
One european nation disliking the other: racism
Actual racism: is fine
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.
The thing is I consider what you described xenophobia not racism. Racism is purely based on skin colour
Then you're just wrong, Whoopi.
What even is this article?
I see you lied about trying to learn from your mistakes, Whoopi.
Sad.
Be better.
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This is literally about the nationality of a person (being British). Maybe racism isn't the best word, but it's certainly discrimination.
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.
English. Its the English. It's always the English. They ruined England!
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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I… am not British? Why would you think I am??? lmao
I don't even have anything against the joke; it's (kind of) funny and just a nod about the cultural hate of Scottish people against British people due to their nation's history. I was just telling that if you take it seriously (which it's not supposed to), it is discrimination. (I mean not the joke itself but what happens to the character in the joke.)
English though
Nationality, not race.
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture.
Making fun of British people is the morally correct thing to do at all times.
More like haha hating privileged people rule
Yes indeed, and it's not like England has some history with Scotland or anything...
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
You'll sound *more authoritative on camera. Is that a privilege?
If you weren't aware that you're more privileged than the people your empire colonized that's impressive
has your language been all but wiped out?
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.
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.
racism is when Scots hate Brits
Scots are brits
Aye doesn’t mean you aren’t going to ruffle some feathers saying so
Damn Scots. They ruined Scotland!
You Scots sure are a contentious bunch.
I'm English. OP can have the E-word pass.
It's always fair to joke about the British.
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