• Skkorm@lemmy.world
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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.

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

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              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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                the semantics

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

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                Yeah no, try listening to someone that actually speaks Scots and tell me is easily understood.

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            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.

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            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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          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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            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.)

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        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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          As long as they’re aware of their privilege and don’t abuse it, they’re fine.

          The most privileged tend to be the least aware and the first to exploit it though.

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      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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          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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            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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              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.

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        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.