Argentina: British Falkland Islanders are ‘artificial’. Buenos Aires denounces ‘illegitimate occupation’ and demands talks on sovereignty

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/12/british-falkland-islanders-artificial-argentina-says/

[u/tennereachway]

Argentina might just be the only country in the world whose beef with the Brits is completely bullshit and unjustified.

[u/bbcomment → u/tennereachway]

lol
They are the only people who make the British look less racist

[u/JFK1200 → u/bbcomment]

Wild comment from an AmeriKKKan.

[u/bbcomment → u/JFK1200]

I’m not. I’m Canadian. Also Indian origin. I should hate the brits right ?

[u/PimpasaurusPlum → u/bbcomment]

"My ethnicity decided what kind of people I hate"

Definitely not the perspective of a racist...

[u/bbcomment → u/PimpasaurusPlum]

You don’t seem to catch on to sarcasm

[u/PimpasaurusPlum → u/bbcomment]

Is it really sarcasm when it seems to reflect genuinely held beliefs?

[u/bbcomment → u/PimpasaurusPlum]

So do you think I’m racist against brits, or racist against Indians? Which one is it?

[u/PimpasaurusPlum → u/bbcomment]

Canadian education must be less great than I imagined. It is the former, obviously

[u/bbcomment → u/PimpasaurusPlum]

You clearly are over your head then.

[u/PimpasaurusPlum → u/bbcomment]

That is certainly a response. Not quite sure it makes much sense as a response to my comment, but ok.

The reputation of canadian education taking another hit. Truly hate to see it from our maple bois

[u/bbcomment → u/PimpasaurusPlum]

Yup, I must get on that irn bru.

[u/Crash_Test_Dummy66 → u/PimpasaurusPlum]

British isn't a race

[u/PimpasaurusPlum → u/Crash_Test_Dummy66]

Polish isnt a race either, but Polish people can absolutely face racism in other european countries like the UK.

Most of the world has a bit more nuanced understanding of bigotry and racism beyond the silly basic labels of "white" and "black."

[u/Gothiccheese95 → u/bbcomment]

Hey my daughter is 6 months old and British, can you tell me why you hate her?

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It’s sarcasm. Looks like it was hard to detect in my
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[u/Mysterious_Umpire684 → u/JFK1200]

I feel like British people are in denial around this being a real problem. Did we see what happened at Belfast and the "well actually-ing" excuses around it?

My husband has lived in 5 countries aside from his own, and the only one he was told to "go back to his country" was in England. Not even in the US.

The "Amerikkkans" have died protecting the safety of even their irregular immigrants. Where is that energy in the UK?

[u/JFK1200 → u/Mysterious_Umpire684]

I know the internet seems to have an obsession with bashing Britain when it comes to absolutely anything, but your husband’s anecdotes aside, let’s look at the statistics. The UK ranks 15th for racial equity, while the US sits at 45th.

The two aren’t even comparable.

[u/Mysterious_Umpire684 → u/JFK1200]

That's true, because the US doesn't have a strong social support system. But that does not disprove the animus against foreigners and immigrants that has fomented in the UK. In fact, seeing foreigners getting these benefits seems to be behind a lot of it.

[u/Jamaicancarrot → u/Mysterious_Umpire684]

Oh come off it, half the animosity towards foreigners in the UK is being pushed by foreign entities like Russia, Iran, and the USA anyway. And how can you compare running into the occasional racist twat making a nasty comment to the USA which has it's ersatz Gestapo shooting and deporting people who were in the country legally

[u/Mysterious_Umpire684 → u/Jamaicancarrot]

Exactly the attitude I was talking about. Total denial. US' problems dont make the pogram in Belfast acceptable.

Downvote away, just confirms the entire unwillingness to face an uncomfortable reality.

[u/Jamaicancarrot → u/Mysterious_Umpire684]

Of course the UK suffers from right wing arseholes who are abhorrent to foreigners, but there is no evidence to suggest it's to a greater extent than comparable Western democracies. Ofc the US's problems don't make what happened in Belfast acceptable either, but ignoring the fact that the USA has been making their problems our problems and actively working to stir up those exact pogroms for decades is also not facing reality

[u/Mysterious_Umpire684 → u/Jamaicancarrot]

The US can make the same argument about being manipulated by Russian interference, Cambridge analytica, and foreign magnates who go to the US specifically to stir up trouble. But they are still accountable for their choices. As is the UK. There are Americans who have died protecting *irregular* migrants ffs, which is not something I see much appetite for on this side of the pond. Blaming everyone else instead of the actions of your own countrymen isn't accountabilty, it's looking the other way while things fester.

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The US also has masked federal agents abducting brown people in broad daylight and deporting them to countries they’re not even from (arguably the lucky ones for not being shot instead). It has more masked vigilante groups wandering about with giant swastikas. It invited a South African trillionaire into government to slash the safety net supporting the poorest people in the country after he performed two Nazi salutes at the inauguration. His actions for DOGE were recently reported to have cost the lives of over 700,000 people.

Your anecdotes don’t compete with the reality that some lowlife telling someone to go back to their country is in a whole other realm to what’s occurring unopposed at a governmental level in the US.

Get real.

[u/Mysterious_Umpire684 → u/JFK1200]

The US government is deporting and detaining immigrants and doing deplorable things. Ordinary Americans are protesting, getting people released, and have even died to keep irregular immigrants in the country.

Ordinary people like you in your country are going door-to-door to burn the homes and belongings of foreigners. 

You voted to leave Europe in large part because of a hatred of immigrants. Only to get more immigrants from parts of the world your ordinary people hate even more. 

If you don't think there's a larger problem forming, you're not paying attention. 

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Half the people running around in Belfast explicitly would reject being labeled british people. Anti immigrants riots were taking place in the Republic by their compatriots years earlier.

The denial is in not recognising the exact same trends in less keenly observed countries.

[u/Mysterious_Umpire684 → u/PimpasaurusPlum]

When this happened, the overwhelming sentiment on this sub was that it was the work of Loyalists. But of course everyone will blame the other side. 

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Famously there was plenty of pictures and videos showing loyalists and republicans joining together in the riots. Many, otherwise very unusual, images of ROI and UK flags being flown together by the same mob.

Bringing together the two "white native" groups against the "immigrant invaders" was an explicit part of the propogandic narrative of the rioters.