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Huh, it's almost as if "punching up" by making statements denigrating oppressors isn't the same as "punching down" by making statements denigrating the oppressed.
Never mind the fact that there really are constant racist anti-British posts on lemmy.
Racism is racism. No doubt someone will jump in and say it is xenophobia or something else. Whatever. It is not fucking acceptable, except a lot of you people love it when it is directed towards targests that suit you. There is no such thing as good and bad racism, or xenophobia.
Edit - at the end of the day when an individual is happy with anti-British racism they accept racism of every stripe. That is on each of those individuals. And to spell it out, if you can have racism/xenophobia towards brits then racism/xenophobia towards every nation is acceptalbe on Lemmy.
It isn't fucking hard logic to figure out.
Edit - Your downvoting absolutely is what has allowed Trump. You can't see it. Oh well.
Truly, landlordism runs deep in the blood of all sons and daughters of Perfidious Albion; not a soul can escape the grip of their ancestors' deeds, like Lovecraft finding out his pure Anglo bloodline was tainted with the W*lsh and being consumed with an urge to speak evil tongues with too many consonants😔
This is hilarious
"andlordism runs deep in the blood of all sons and daughters of Perfidious Albion"
Fuck off. This is nonsense.
Nothing but racist nonsense. If lemmy allows it then it allows all types of racism.
Yes, that's the joke.
You know, I almost addressed that insinuation of yours in my previous comment, but (perhaps naively) let it pass in hopes that you'd actually engage my point in good faith instead of doubling down on your rhetoric. So much for that.
Just FYI, criticizing the policies of the 17th century English government not is "racism." Your attempt to conflate it with bigotry against the English people is a lie, and your pearl-clutching over your false victimhood is uncivil.
Let me guess: you think criticism of Israel is "antisemitism" too, don't you?
No.
Nowhere have I said criticism of Israel is the same as your racism towards England. You nasty little troll.
This racism must be removed from lemmy.
I think people would be better able to see your point if you actually took the time to lay it out, rather than just screaming "racism" into the abyss fifty times.
With which parts of this post in particular do you take exception?
From my perspective, it seems to me that you are conflating hatred of the objectively cruel and callous British imperialist government (and the rich landlords who were rewarded by it) and the policies thereof (which, along with similar policies from other countries toward those they deemed lesser than themselves, led to most of the modern geopolitical problems of this godforsaken world) with hatred of people of Anglo-saxon descent.
Frankly, I can't tell if you're trying to make a genuine complaint poorly, just screaming out in bad faith, or if you are truly so incapable of divesting your identity from the governance of England from hundreds of years ago that you're defending imperialist spoils systems.
I personally am leaning towards the second interpretation, because the one thing you've repeated in every one of these comments is that, if anti-british "racism" is allowed, then ALL types of racism must be allowed. It sounds like you're really itching to say something really racist, but need to hype yourself up with an excuse to do so.