• Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    People shouldn’t hate on the British. They should hate on the English, specifically.

    I would leave if it weren’t for the fact that all my friends and family are here.

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      6 hours ago

      People shouldn’t hate on the British. They should hate on the English, specifically.

      Why the English specifically? Do you think Scotland and Wales are some sort of unwilling collaborators or victims?

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        Scotland is a colony. Scottish people were also involved in the British colonial project. All of us continue to live the imperial mode with different degrees of enthusiasm.

        I think the working folk of England are no more or less guilty than their Scottish and Welsh counterparts.

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          5 hours ago

          Scotland is a colony

          In what way? Do the Scottish get compensation 10 times less for the same labour as the English or something like that?

          I think the working folk of England are no more or less guilty than their Scottish and Welsh counterparts.

          Sure. But if it’s the English to hate, then why not the Scottish and the Welsh?

      • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 hours ago

        Unwilling collaborators to what, exactly?

        To the troubles? The Partition of Ireland? The Tudor Conquest of Ireland and the Plantation of Ulster? The British Empire in general? Or whatever the fuck the Britain is doing on the world stage now?

        There isn’t much of anything that Britain has done to Ireland that England didn’t also do to Scotland, or the Anglo-Normans to Wales.

        But I was just going by the fact that England is where all the Tory voters are.

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          Unwilling collaborators to what, exactly?

          Have you missed the last several hundred years or so, featuring British colonialism and genocides conducted with the involvement of the British?

          There isn’t much of anything that Britain has done to Ireland that England didn’t also do to Scotland, or the Anglo-Normans to Wales.

          Oh? What was their analogue of the Irish Potato Famine?

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    7 hours ago

    Lived there for 3 years… I fucking hate that country. Its like an island of snitches and bootlickers. The worst kind of white people.