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I’m saddened and sadly unsurprised pal; any time you try to call it out for what it really represents you either get radio silence or the “can’t we all just get along?” keech. Might as well just quote Trainspotting to prove we’re all uncultured smackheids and be done with it.
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I generally bite my tongue despite what people think here, it's just the cognitive dissonance between what folk have been posting about Brexit and the condescending shite that gets papped out about IndyRef stuff that has been royally rustling my Scotch eggs.
If anyone here thinks it's overblown or not a thing just go look at the replies to Piers Morgan's tweets about his interview with Sturgeon or that car crash Jeremy Vine segment recently where the panel basically ridiculed the entire country or BBC question time repeatedly getting caught out using Tory Councilors or known Unionist activists as plants for Joe public whenever in Scotland.... It's endemic.
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Evidently Bobbo thinks it's just us getting het up about nothing, I disagree and could share anecdotes of working in London and folk asking me why I was there or where I'd learned English as if I'd come off the boat from Russia or something.
People excuse it as friendly banter but I haven't ever found that to be the case-all my pals in first year at Uni were English and this is long enough ago that Scotland actually beat them in a football game... It went from fun to rabid cursing and exclamations of "fucking dirty Scots cunts", "sheepshagging bastards" etc in a heartbeat and it showed a few things up about their actual attitudes. Other folk also use England as an interchangeable term for the UK, again, says a lot... Those guys were still pals but not really the same as before and I definitely didn't watch the football with them as it was the same with every team that was playing against England... Endless xenophobia and derogatory insults. It explains a lot about why when I go abroad and people ask where you're from they often say "oh I'm glad you're not English", it's an attitude that has been widely recognised over time and hasn't won many friends even pre Brexit.
I'm just a bit saddened to see the same shit go on here and like I said, don't believe it would be tolerated if it was directed at another group of folk.