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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
Well of course...its racism against white people. By other white people. Which is the worst kind of racism, apparently.
Truly the definition of racism
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.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/whoopi-goldberg-s-holocaust-comments-view-could-inadvertently-help-fascists-ncna1288360
What even is this article?
I see you lied about trying to learn from your mistakes, Whoopi.
Sad.
Be better.
So Brits cant be racist towards the Irish then?
This is literally about the nationality of a person (being British). Maybe racism isn't the best word, but it's certainly discrimination.
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.
He is speaking Scots though. You can start arguments saying it isn't a language.
this isn't scots writing, this is someone who is probably not scottish trying to represent scottish english with text
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? 🙄
Ironically enough, you don't seem to know the meaning of the word.
Yeah no, try listening to someone that actually speaks Scots and tell me is easily understood.
But it clearly isn't easy to understand the local dialect. And the other person doesn't even try to make himself be understood, eg by speaking slower.
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!
They literally voted not to themselves.
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.
English though
Nationality, not race.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people
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?
has your language been all but wiped out?
If you weren't aware that you're more privileged than the people your empire colonized that's impressive
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.
Yeah argentinas claim is dumb sure, but the wars that the britiah carried out were at a scale that doesn't even compare to the Falklands invasion, and the British didn't even care about rationalizing a claim. They just took shit. So please forgive me when i think its funny watching Britniks lose their collective minds about a third world country invading some of their far off rocks and failing. Like it doesn't even compare to what the British have done, but they cry about it like uncontrollable piss babies.
The antarctic claim I think it's fair, it's unpopulated and Argentina is right there. There are a bunch of countries who claim it as well so they are not alone. It's just a matter of whose going to occupy it.
I don't really get what you are saying the UK won, what can you say about it? Most Brits think of the Falkland Islands even less than Ireland.
Im sure most british people dont think about it all that much. But British nationalists trolls online seem to have this weird hyperfixation with it almost to an unhealthy degree.
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.