"People cannot emigrate to Scotland from Africa and be considered Scottish." Um, yes they fuckin can. That is exactly how it works, Eric. https://twitter.com/RobertJSomynne/status/873919048475693056 …
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect
I don't believe he's speaking abt legality. More like black Parisian I read abt who's constantly asked by white Parisians where she's from.
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Replying to @Terrysagirl @arthur_affect
I'm not speaking legality either. I'm speaking civic national identity versus blood & soil ethnonationalism.
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See the article by the tweeter I RT'ed linked at or near the top of his tweetstream. His point & mine is precisely that the former prevails.
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Replying to @Terrysagirl @arthur_affect
Ah, here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/01/scottish-nationalists-racist-uk-bigotry-sadiq-khan?CMP=share_btn_tw … I'd actually be more down on the ill of blood & soil ethnonationalism but yeah: highly recommend.
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Key point: Garland's dismissal is categorical: this cannot be. Us 3 Scots saying it *can & does* doesn't deny that the racism also occurs.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @Terrysagirl
Yeah Garland is being an idiot. American-ness of PoC is intensely conditional
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And, perversely, it's *more so* for descendants of enslaved ppl who've been here since the beginning
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Precisely because of its origin as a caste-based slave society
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