Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf faces no confidence vote | BBC News" video.

  1. Last time I checked, he was Scottish.
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  2. People too often conflate the SNP with Scottish independence and vice-versa. The SNP just happens to be the political party vehicle carrying the hopes of independence, but if the SNP vanished tomorrow there would still be a steady 40-50% support for Scottish independence and another party would emerge to fill the void vacated by the SNP.
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  3.  @Dial999its-a-good-time  He was born and raised in Scotland. Ergo, he’s Scottish. Cope a bit better now.
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  4.  @Dial999its-a-good-time If you are born, raised, educated and have lived your whole life in a particular country you are generally said to be from that country. Not sure why you’re finding this concept so difficult. I repeat, cope a little better now.
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  5.  @HouseholdDog  ‘He’s just not Scottish’. By that logic anyone with Polish, Irish, Italian ancestry ‘just isn’t Scottish’, either. I’d like to know when Yousaf’s ‘Scottishness’ kicks in. Are his children ‘Scottish’? If not, will their children be Scottish? In other words, how far back do you want to go with this? If you look into most Scots’ ancestry you’ll find all sorts of genetic stuff. By your logic, they won’t be ‘Scottish’ either, I suppose. I’m willing to bet very good money that if Humza Yousaf was white and born, raised and educated in Scotland to Christian Italian parents you would have zero problem calling him ‘Scottish’. Truth is, you just can’t abide a Muslim dude with brown skin and a funny name calling himself ‘Scottish’ when white dudes with funny names do this all the time.
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  6. Last time I checked they were both British.
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  7.  @KTopics  Ah, Paolo Nutini, such a beautiful Scottish name.
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  8. Well said. As someone from Scotland I would add that those comments you are reading exemplify 2 aspects: 1. Certain people deeply distrust Islam. (I’m one of them. That’s not racist, given Islam is a manmade ideology held by people of multifarious races.) 2. Certain people are racist and they don’t want a brown guy with a funny name running what they perceive as a ‘white’ country. They may not admit this in such stark terms, though (for fear of being seen as racist), and hide behind the Islam thing. What I definitely have noticed these past few years, though, is that more and more people are quite happy to be thought of as racist and they will just quite openly and brazenly tell you they are. You can see many of these people in this comments section.👍
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  9.  @jenniferlawrence2701  So he isn’t ethnically Scottish. So? Tens of thousands of Scots aren’t ‘ethnically Scottish’. What do you want to do with that information? Ban all non-ethnically Scottish individuals from being able to say they are ‘Scottish’? In that case, you are going to have genetically test everyone’s DNA and then establish a base level for what qualifies as ‘Scottish’. In other words, you’re mad.
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  10.  @rapid8748  It doesn’t work like that. It’s called ‘SELF-determination’ for a reason.
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  11. So he hates himself then. 🥴
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  12.  @lks6248 That’s not the point. The point is that there are thousands of white people who are Scottish who have Italian, Irish, Polish etc ancestry. By your mad logic, they don’t qualify as ‘Scottish’ either. But you don’t make this clear. You only pick on the brown Muslim. Quelle surprise!
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  13.  @HouseholdDog  If you are born, raised and educated in Scotland, I think you’re entitled to call yourself Scottish. We’ll have to disagree on this.
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