Thread by @NiceConvos

Something that's really bothering me has happened over the last few days:
I've seen several comments by apparent indy supporters pointing out where someone was born as part of an argument when disagreeing with someone.
The same accounts who say you're Scottish if you live here./1

But maybe they only mean it when people agree with them.
I've even seen some comments tell these people to go home.
I don't follow all of those accounts or agree with all of them, but seeing this "they're from xyz" & "go home" as part of the argument against them hurts a lot.
/2

That's not the welcoming Scotland I know, that I love and that I feel proud to call home.
It's not just the comments, but the amounts of likes these comments got.
And it makes me wonder when some of you will start telling me to go home, if we disagree on something specific.
/3

I know it's only a few comments by a few people. But nobody, absolutely nobody is calling it out. Does that mean many more agree?
You can't tell us one day we are welcome here, but if there's a disagreement pull the foreigner card.
That hurts so many more people than you know.
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And if those kinds of comments don't speak for you, then please call them out when you spot them. Don't wait for one of us who wasn't born here to do so. Argue about the topics you disagree on. But don't use racism or ethnic nationalism to make your point.
That just hurts.
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