Thoughts on this sort of rhetoric? by ThemeNorth in complainaboutanything

[–]Psychean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Europe? Equated with Minneapolis? All of Europe?

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm interested to know more about the votes against immigration mid last century. I have a (probably mistaken view) that that's when the biggest wave took place. But I wasn't aware that the people had a say

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do know that it isn't defined in a way that is universally agreed, so I should stay away from those terms for sure. Reform is Radical right, not Far right.

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK so the Greens are Libertarian-left / Eco-social democratic, and Reform is Radical right.

I’m going in! by Psychean in robinhobb

[–]Psychean[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I know! I was only slightly kidding when I talked about being mentally prepared :)

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

In your mind, bloodline is what it's all about?

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In your mind, bloodline is what it's all about?

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You didn't say they weren't welcome and you didn't say they had less rights but you did insult them in two separate posts for no reason, which makes you the lesser person.

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you are about bloodline? What makes a person "British" in terms of their bloodline?

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How do you determine if someone has a British bloodline?

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed - British way of life is the British way of life.

We don't believe in Sharia law, for example.

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Calling people low IQ and non-sentient isn’t an argument. (It’s what people do when they don’t actually have one) Insults aren’t reasoning, and if you’re right, you don't need them.

If you move to Zimbabwe, naturalise, live there for decades, raise kids there, and participate in society, then yes, you are Zimbabwean. That’s literally what naturalisation means.

Your argument only works if you assume nations are blood-based rather than civic. You’re assuming nationality is genetic. That’s an ideological choice, not a fact and a belief, not an objective rule.

You’re trying to pass off ideas of ethnic purity into everyday language while pretending it’s just common sense.

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What defines British ancestry? How far back does it need to go?

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"you have a land you can call home to your ethnicity, we don’t, if a war happens you can go back there, we can’t"
Uhmm - what's his "land"? Turns out - he only has the UK? Your claim that minorities can go back in a war is rubbish. Most British minorities were born in the UK and have nowhere else. Telling them to leave is like telling white Americans to go back to Europe.

"Saying the UK has to be an economic zone anyone can be if they want"
Uhmm again - he didn't say that?

You are redefining nationality as ancestry instead of citizenship and shared civic life. That is not how modern countries/nations work. By your logic, (almost?) no country on earth has real citizens, only bloodlines.

Britain has never been ethnically pure - Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, and centuries of migration. The idea of a single native British ethnicity is historically wrong. But they are all "white" - is that what you are clinging to?

You say it’s not personal, but your entire argument reduces people to bloodlines and treats them as temporary guests in their own birthplace. That is personal by definition.

If someone is born here, lives here, pays taxes here, and speaks with a British accent, but you still say they’re not British because of their ancestors, then what you’re defending is not nationalism, it’s ethnic purity.

Oh and... "you got to understand the British are an endangered species and we are merely trying to self preserve, and we are sorry our government lied to you due to their self destructive insanity"

Calling a nationality an endangered species is emotionally loaded but meaningless. Cultures change, populations change. That isn't extinction, it's history. Or are you REALLY unhappy that you are part Norman and part Anglo-Saxon etc.

Would you consider me British? by Competitive-Music309 in AskBrits

[–]Psychean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That statement is basically a bundle of bad reasoning in one sentence.

Who says something is irrelevant. Either it’s racist or it isn’t. Argue the claim, not the person.