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Edit - you don't get to choose the stripes of racism you approve and disapprove (except you do make those choices with your downvotes. You are not social liberals - politics just hasn't gone your way. You are as bad as sthe Trumpists. You approve one stripe of racism you approve them all. That is on you. A downvote does not change that obvious reality.
I think English people would just look at you these days and think 'that was literally nothing to do with me, or anybody I know. While I don't deny the Irish famine, actually get over it, because this is without doubt just angry and meaningless/pointless racism.' Sorry but when you do it in something like a UK university, they just think 'what are you doing here if you don't like it?'
There are loads of racist anti British posts here. It wouldn't be acceptable the other way around so fuck it.
Edit - if racist brit posts are allowed then racism towards anyone has to be allowed. Lemmy you decid0e, but of course you decide if you are inherently racist or not. Maybe you pick a side, but fuck knows what that side would be right now if you reject the British as being worthy targets of racism.
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.
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.