Comment on Chief thought Skripal poisoning could be 'act of war'
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 weeks agoGeneric you, as in institutions of British government, not specific you, as in Niel Basu.
Comment on Chief thought Skripal poisoning could be 'act of war'
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 weeks agoGeneric you, as in institutions of British government, not specific you, as in Niel Basu.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Yeah. Just to let you know. That generic you is the same as saying “you people” and yep we brits have a bad history of that sort of comment. But many of us recognise the error.
Its generally best to say the UK or British government when that is what you mean. Because just like every other nation. Most of the you that are in the UK do not have any control or history over these events.
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
lol it’s pointless arguing with hex or grad you’re wasting your time. I’m curious what the result of our vote to defederate from them on jlai.lu will be now.
Yeah you’re being judged for past actions but to these people it does not matter if you recognize your mistake or not nor that you try and improve the situation.
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
No, the generic you doesn’t have the history and context of “you people”, and even if it did, using “you people” to refer to groups that people choose to join (i.e the British Government) isn’t a problematic use. The whole point of "you people"being used against ethnic minorities is that it lumps people together as if their skin colour automatically means they follow specific ideologies. The point of an organisation like a government is that they are all working under the same ideology.