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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (56 children)
  • [–] 126 points 2 years ago (32 children)

    "pretentious dick" isn't a race.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Love how they just call everything racism

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    One european nation disliking the other: racism

    Actual racism: is fine

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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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.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (8 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 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? 🙄

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 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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  • [–] [S] 62 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    More like haha hating privileged people rule

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago* (5 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.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    racism is when Scots hate Brits

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)