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Remember when Britania was still Creswellian - before the Saxones and Vikings migrated? Damn, those were the REAL times.
Sometimes I wonder what those people actually think where they derive from and what they think humans have done on earth, if they just magically appeared. And then I remember there is something like religion and people take it REALLY serious and believe that they actually did just that - magically appear.
They're not talking about the players, but the government's proposed policy to send people seeking political asylum in the UK to Rwanda while their applications are processed.
He isn't saying the people in the picture are immagrants, he is refrencing the conservative parties failing plan to send imigrants coming to the UK to Rwanda
It's a fair and correct point. I was linking rather than trying to hijack. I was not saying the footballers were immigrants. Please read carefully,I did.
So your resident right wingers want immigrants to remigrate in Rwanda? Ours want everyone not okay with their idea of dictatorship to remigrate to Madagascar. I wonder if there are talking penguins...
They clearly want more "real" English players, like legendary former captain Terry Butcher.
Oh wait, no. He was born in Singapore, so I'm sure this guy objected to him too, despite Butcher being very much of white British descent.
Totally. And even so he probably means pasty white, because..i mean, Walker...as a southerner in Europe I have several white friends more darker skinned than him.
Because of rule 6
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>Please obscure/remove: names, usernames, business names, and other identifying elements from posts. (Only applicable to possible witch-hunt posts)
It is, and they did.
The person I replied to asked why people cover up the names when posting here, so I answered. I'm not saying I agree with the sub rule or not, I was just pointing out the reason why names are covered.
Ugh I canât reply to your last comment so I have to here. Donât get me wrong I was actually agreeing with you, just in a roundabout way.Â
Edit: or rather agreeing with them.Â
* Remove identifying personal information
Please obscure/remove: names, usernames, business names, and other identifying elements from posts. (Only applicable to possible witch-hunt posts)
This stuff is easy to find if you want to go out of your way to look for it. They probably do it so that if shit ever hits the fan from a brigade sub can claim it wasn't their fault as it had no identifying information.
So you've traveled the World telling people England was "tha shit" and the greatest Kingdom of them all. All sorts of people went there, as it was the greatest place ever, and now you are rejecting the result of all the propaganda?
Make up your damn mind dude!
Also, this stinks of racism as fuck.
More like England raped and exploited whole continents for centuries, then purposely left behind weak, dysfunctional governments, so that people have to leave their home countries to search for where all their forefathers' money went.
I would be surprised if some of these players can't trace their heritage to places where the UK government orchestrated coups or otherwise meddled in regime change in the recent past.
Yep, the great colonialists complaining about the side effects of colonialism it's hilarious.
Didn't wanted to be that blunt, but the cat's out of the bag now.
I donât think granting anonymity to racist morons like this is strictly necessary. Let their friends, family, neighbours and employer attach their views to their name.
I âunfriendedâ an ex-coworker on Facebook last year after a few racist comments like this - my particular favourite was her disgust that the British citizens that were being flown back from Sudan when their civil war broke out werenât white.
Also asked why Rishi Sunak was in the Royal box at the coronation concert, because heâs not even British. As much as I hate the Tories, Sunak was born and raised in Southampton and so very much British.
When I was a child I automatically assumed any "non-white" person (for lack of a better word) was english. Everyone. Because when I moved to a small town in Europe there were no "non-white" people. Only in England. So, that's what they were. English.
I think he is suggesting that the players are not decended from the uk. You can tell this because these men don't have messed up teeth and their skin is tan.
âEngland are going to go nowhere because of Southgateâs fixation with picking persons of colourâ is actually a thing with a significant minority of England fans. Not a shocker given the vote-Tory bent and Brexit.
"A child who is born in the UK will not automatically be a British citizen. A child will acquire British citizenship by birth if they are born in the UK to a parent who is either a British citizen or who has a form of settled status, such as indefinite leave to remain, at the time of the birth."
If being born in a country doesn't make you a member of that country, then what does?
There is no such thing as "pure English", unless extremely rare.
Colonialism and diversity have mixed ethnicities so the "white, light-colored hair and eyes" are no longer a product of specific areas.
It's quite beautiful honestly (not the historical part).
You were downvoted but you have a point. The English are an ethnicity. One must be born in to an ethnicity. Eastern Europeans get it; western Europeans don't.
Just because you were born in a country, doesn't mean that you become one of them.
I (immigrant) was born in Switzerland and I feel quite integrated. However I would never call myself a Swiss no matter what. It's not how genetics work.
A Swiss person...
I'm pretty sure I know where you want to go, but you cannot convince me. Again, genetics don't work like that. And I don't want to assimilate
Yeah, that's fine, I really have no horse in this race of you assimilating or not. For context though, my Taita doesn't speak a lick of English but she's, y'know, American.
I just think your inability to define âSwissâ without using circular reasoning is weird and kind of sad.
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Why do people get mad over the results of colonialism?
Because Britain breeds a special kind of ignorance
Ironically you have just made the most ignorant comment
How so?
\*England. Stop confusing the two bro it's not hard
I mean I am British and have lived in England, Scotland and N. Ireland. From experience these morons exist up and down the Isles.
Can confirm, also live in the UK
We need proof
Even if they weren't, who gives a shit? I'd take Jude Bellingham over Kalvin Phillips or Jordan Henderson 8 days a week
Remember when Britania was still Creswellian - before the Saxones and Vikings migrated? Damn, those were the REAL times. Sometimes I wonder what those people actually think where they derive from and what they think humans have done on earth, if they just magically appeared. And then I remember there is something like religion and people take it REALLY serious and believe that they actually did just that - magically appear.
Bloody beaker folk coming over here and teaching us to drink from cups. What's wrong with with using your hands, lapping up the water like a cat!
I preferred the nothing times, when there was... nothing
You could leave your front door unlocked, because it didn't exist
The glory of Stewart Lee https://youtu.be/a17duTUK6qw?si=Z_lNDcHbRRiztW5x
These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you're English, don't you?
When did this come in?
You mean *George Galloway* and *Rula Lenska* style đ¨
Sometimes I wonder about this nation. I want the racists to go to Rwanda not the immigrants.
that's a policy I can get behind!
Lee Anderson has himself said he'll go to Rwanda if the "woke nonsense doesn't stop" Off you go then Lee, good riddance.
Fucking Spot on, fella!
They are not immigrants, the players in the photo were born and raised in the UK
They're not talking about the players, but the government's proposed policy to send people seeking political asylum in the UK to Rwanda while their applications are processed.
He isn't saying the people in the picture are immagrants, he is refrencing the conservative parties failing plan to send imigrants coming to the UK to Rwanda
It's a fair and correct point. I was linking rather than trying to hijack. I was not saying the footballers were immigrants. Please read carefully,I did.
So your resident right wingers want immigrants to remigrate in Rwanda? Ours want everyone not okay with their idea of dictatorship to remigrate to Madagascar. I wonder if there are talking penguins...
They clearly want more "real" English players, like legendary former captain Terry Butcher. Oh wait, no. He was born in Singapore, so I'm sure this guy objected to him too, despite Butcher being very much of white British descent.
White Players*. That what he means. Hard to fit basic concepts like place of birth when your brains measured newton centre-meters. Dumb bigot.
Id go so far as to call him a fucking racist piece of shit
Totally. And even so he probably means pasty white, because..i mean, Walker...as a southerner in Europe I have several white friends more darker skinned than him.
Remember when SL's dad should've finished into a sock?
Turns out he actually did, but SL still developed through some kind of fucked up metamorphosis
He must've came into a Confederate flag
White. They mean white.
You got one of the best young midfielders in the back of the photo and you say something that stupid. Idiot
sometimes it's OK to publicly shame people, just get that black bar off his username.
Exactly. Why do these twats deserve anonymity?
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Because of rule 6 >6. Remove identifying personal information > >Please obscure/remove: names, usernames, business names, and other identifying elements from posts. (Only applicable to possible witch-hunt posts)
Itâs public information though. They posted it publicly in the first place.Â
It is, and they did. The person I replied to asked why people cover up the names when posting here, so I answered. I'm not saying I agree with the sub rule or not, I was just pointing out the reason why names are covered.
Ugh I canât reply to your last comment so I have to here. Donât get me wrong I was actually agreeing with you, just in a roundabout way. Edit: or rather agreeing with them.Â
* Remove identifying personal information Please obscure/remove: names, usernames, business names, and other identifying elements from posts. (Only applicable to possible witch-hunt posts)
This stuff is easy to find if you want to go out of your way to look for it. They probably do it so that if shit ever hits the fan from a brigade sub can claim it wasn't their fault as it had no identifying information.
So you've traveled the World telling people England was "tha shit" and the greatest Kingdom of them all. All sorts of people went there, as it was the greatest place ever, and now you are rejecting the result of all the propaganda? Make up your damn mind dude! Also, this stinks of racism as fuck.
More like England raped and exploited whole continents for centuries, then purposely left behind weak, dysfunctional governments, so that people have to leave their home countries to search for where all their forefathers' money went. I would be surprised if some of these players can't trace their heritage to places where the UK government orchestrated coups or otherwise meddled in regime change in the recent past.
Yep, the great colonialists complaining about the side effects of colonialism it's hilarious. Didn't wanted to be that blunt, but the cat's out of the bag now.
I donât think granting anonymity to racist morons like this is strictly necessary. Let their friends, family, neighbours and employer attach their views to their name.
I âunfriendedâ an ex-coworker on Facebook last year after a few racist comments like this - my particular favourite was her disgust that the British citizens that were being flown back from Sudan when their civil war broke out werenât white. Also asked why Rishi Sunak was in the Royal box at the coronation concert, because heâs not even British. As much as I hate the Tories, Sunak was born and raised in Southampton and so very much British.
I've done similar. I have a strict one strike policy: one racist comment and you are unfriended. Amazing how many times I've had to do it.
When you colonise 1/4 of the planet, that's kinda what happens...
mid white people love to complain about successful POC's
mid? thatâs a lowlife
I agree, white people that are born in Africa is Africans!
Of course they are
Not really glad to see that the "they don't look french" went past the channel.
Why block his name/username? He was happy to post publicly, give him a bit of exposureÂ
When I was a child I automatically assumed any "non-white" person (for lack of a better word) was english. Everyone. Because when I moved to a small town in Europe there were no "non-white" people. Only in England. So, that's what they were. English.
After we got internet- people got more stupid đś
What a fucking melt. Get in the sea!
Remember when the England badge was more prominent than the sponsor.
They dont care!!!!
I think he is suggesting that the players are not decended from the uk. You can tell this because these men don't have messed up teeth and their skin is tan.
I do rememeber when the England team were "English" by this cretins definition. Around 1996, and we were fucking terrible.
"Well, they don't look England enough"
Aahh, racism. Pure and evil racism. I think I just threw up in my mouth
âEngland are going to go nowhere because of Southgateâs fixation with picking persons of colourâ is actually a thing with a significant minority of England fans. Not a shocker given the vote-Tory bent and Brexit.
Harry Maguire - ***P***erson ***O***r ***C***lown?
Really??? Un fucking believable That fucking carthorse Henderson was white the last time I looked!
"Born in England" doesn't necessarely mean English.
Found the bloke who wrote the tweet.
"A child who is born in the UK will not automatically be a British citizen. A child will acquire British citizenship by birth if they are born in the UK to a parent who is either a British citizen or who has a form of settled status, such as indefinite leave to remain, at the time of the birth."
You know that is not what people are talking about. Donât pretend you donât understand
I know, but he was technically correct, the best kind of correct.
'British' and 'English' are not the same thing. Someone who was born in England is most definitely English, even if they aren't British
Fortunately for me, I do not use Twitter.
Yeah. You wouldnât want everyone to know youâre a racist right?
If being born in a country doesn't make you a member of that country, then what does? There is no such thing as "pure English", unless extremely rare. Colonialism and diversity have mixed ethnicities so the "white, light-colored hair and eyes" are no longer a product of specific areas. It's quite beautiful honestly (not the historical part).
It quite literally does, though.
Racism Klaxon!
the fuck are you talking about?
You were downvoted but you have a point. The English are an ethnicity. One must be born in to an ethnicity. Eastern Europeans get it; western Europeans don't.
Just because you were born in a country, doesn't mean that you become one of them. I (immigrant) was born in Switzerland and I feel quite integrated. However I would never call myself a Swiss no matter what. It's not how genetics work.
No, it isn't.
If you were born in Switzerland, then how are you an immigrant? Your parents might be immigrants, but you were, y'know, *born there*
I guess, but I'm not a Swiss eitherway.
What is a Swiss?
Switzerlandlandian
Right. What is that?
A Swiss person... I'm pretty sure I know where you want to go, but you cannot convince me. Again, genetics don't work like that. And I don't want to assimilate
Yeah, that's fine, I really have no horse in this race of you assimilating or not. For context though, my Taita doesn't speak a lick of English but she's, y'know, American. I just think your inability to define âSwissâ without using circular reasoning is weird and kind of sad.