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Author	JohnnyClarkee
Comment	The thing is, nowadays people want/need to be seen to be political. And the only way to stand out is to go all out, blindly following one thing and instantly dismissing anything anybody else does. It's why Brexit happened and it's why there's the Independence movement. Politics now is a bit too complicated to just have one team, and it's not even how politics in this country works anymore. Look at Scotland's councils, they're such a state because people think they're voting in an independence referendum when they go to the polls at a local election. People don't seem to have the time to follow what actually goes one, so we're left with 'Tories bad, therefore an independent Scotland would be good' which, obviously, is insane. It's like children being SO into Justin Bieber or something, and thinking everybody else should just DIE. I'm sure plenty of people have plenty of good reasons for their decisions but the way it comes across online nowadays makes a lot of Nationalists look like screaming babies. "Bahaha! You don't support the SNP! you TORY!" Nationalism in general is a pretty sensitive issue so when the voice of it comes across the way that it does, there isn't much of a difference between the anti-Englishness on display here and the straight-up racism that these kilted cyber-warriors pretend to despise.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/qqygvi/aoc_and_the_fm/hk6j2ln/
Created	Thu 11th Nov 2021 8:31am
Status	normal ()

The thing is, nowadays people want/need to be *seen* to be political. And the only way to stand out is to go all out, blindly following one thing and instantly dismissing anything anybody else does. It's why Brexit happened and it's why there's the Independence movement. Politics now is a bit too complicated to just have one team, and it's not even how politics in this country works anymore. Look at Scotland's councils, they're such a state because people think they're voting in an independence referendum when they go to the polls at a local election.

People don't seem to have the time to follow what actually goes one, so we're left with 'Tories bad, therefore an independent Scotland would be good' which, obviously, is insane. It's like children being SO into Justin Bieber or something, and thinking everybody else should just DIE.

I'm sure plenty of people have plenty of good reasons for their decisions but the way it comes across online nowadays makes a lot of Nationalists look like screaming babies. "Bahaha! You don't support the SNP! you TORY!"

Nationalism in general is a pretty sensitive issue so when the voice of it comes across the way that it does, there isn't much of a difference between the anti-Englishness on display here and the straight-up racism that these kilted cyber-warriors pretend to despise.