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English rule (media.beige.party)
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[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

haha British rule

[-] Skkorm@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 42 points 10 months ago

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

Two, that still isn't how it works.

Three, that was before Brexit.

[-] rainerloeten@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

One, why did you quote people?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 26 points 10 months ago

Because I'm being racist against English "people"

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months 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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[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ADTJ@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

Polls show independence was briefly in the lead for a few months of 2020, but has remained consistently behind otherwise since 2014

[-] Breakyfix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 10 months ago
[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 122 points 10 months ago

"pretentious dick" isn't a race.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

Love how they just call everything racism

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

One european nation disliking the other: racism

Actual racism: is fine

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Truly the definition of racism

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 10 months ago
[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

What even is this article?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 10 months ago

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

Sad.

Be better.

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[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

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

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] force@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

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? 🙄

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

the semantics

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

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[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago

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

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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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[-] endhits@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago

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

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months 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.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 47 points 10 months ago

racism is when Scots hate Brits

[-] Tagger@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago
[-] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 10 months ago

Damn Scots. They ruined Scotland!

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 months ago

You Scots sure are a contentious bunch.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Lupus108@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

It's always fair to joke about the British.

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