Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Scottish independence: How likely is a second referendum? - BBC Newsnight" video.
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@gordonmills7798 'You never cease to amaze me with your anti-English/Westminster rhetoric.'
I'm not anti-English, but I am against the form of English nationalism that led to Brexit. You don't find it in Scottish, Irish or Welsh nationalism, which is inclusive and civic, not binary and ethnic. As for Westminster, it is a joke.
'You really do believe you have all the answers wrapped up in your oracle of facts and assumptions.'
I don't have answers, I only have observations and logic.
'This is your arrogance of which I repeatedly lay at your door each time I correspond with you.'
It is me calmly and coldly holding a mirror up to you, and all you are doing is focusing on my lack of emotion and confidence. Sadly, like many English people unaccustomed to he being critiqued, you assume I am somehow 'anti-English'. There is no reason why the English cannot be their own nation, they are as entitled to it as anyone else - my question is when are they going to grasp it, admit it and stand on their own two feet? No answer is ever given.
'The arrogance you portray is equal to blaming all Germans for the Holocaust.'
You have lost me here. If you have a guilt complex because your ancestors past, that is your business, but it is not healthy. English nationalists need to be able to acknowledge the good and the bad of their past in equal measure. Then you will no longer feel bound to defend the indefensible but be able to critique and understand yourselves and where you have come from as a people. Most of Europe has gone through this process in recent years, including the Germans. But not the English.
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