haha British rule
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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.
One, they're talking about English "people," not British people.
Two, that still isn't how it works.
Three, that was before Brexit.
Barely, and the referendum would've gone the other way any time after 2016.
Polls show independence was briefly in the lead for a few months of 2020, but has remained consistently behind otherwise since 2014
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.
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? 🙄
the semantics
Ironically enough, you don't seem to know the meaning of the word.
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.
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.
English though
Nationality, not race.
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture.
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?
If you weren't aware that you're more privileged than the people your empire colonized that's impressive
has your language been all but wiped out?
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.
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.
don’t really see how