It was always obvious that the British nationalist zoomers who infest social media with their Union flag, god-saving-the-queen and pro-Brexit bedecked accounts – because, you know, that's how they demonstrate that they hate (checks notes) nationalism – were going to harrumph in support of the outrageous remark by Scottish Conservative list MSP Tess White that English people were not included in Nicola Sturgeon's denunciation of racism in Scotland.
Of course, the British nationalist zoomers, who are quick to discount or explain away the very real anti-Irish racism and xenophobic anti-immigrant sentiments which characterise pro-Brexit right-wing British nationalism in Scotland, are never able to come up with any incontrovertible examples of the supposed anti-English racism which they assert defines the SNP. They are reduced to pointing to the antics of marginal figures who are not associated with the party, or asserting without any evidence that when pro-independence politicians criticise Westminster this is "really" code for English people in general.
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If you are going to twist words and language out of all recognition you can "prove" anything that you like. However, the fact is that there is no evidence of anti-English racism on the part of the mainstream independence movement as blatant and incontrovertible as the anti-Irish racism displayed by some stalwarts of British nationalism in Scotland.
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