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[–] 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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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    There are tons of German dialects I would have trouble understanding as a German. Saying it's entitled to not be able to understand something like that is just far from reality if not ableist.

    The picture is just a joke about the cultural hate of Scottish people against British people due to the history of these nations. It's not made to be taken seriously, but if you do… of course it's discrimination. I mean not the joke itself but what happens to the character in the joke. Like lol, it's literally because they are British. Trying to deny that is just ridiculous.

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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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    They kinda are tho. No way to piss off a br*t faster than saying anything critical of their empire

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.)

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