derogatory
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There’s a reason this website exists:
https://arethebritsatitagain.org
Also, it’s hilarious they they’re clutching their pearls over “Brit”, when “Tory” comes from an Irish derogatory word for British people
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So do we have to call this the B-Word awards now?
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Lawrence, KS, home to KU, has a store for Anglophiles that sells all sorts of imported British goods. Snacks, shelf stable grocery items, memorabilia, media, etc.
Naturally, it’s called Brits. I don’t think anyone, in the decades of it’s existence, has thought it to be the least bit derogatory.
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Brit please.
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So as an American I’m wondering if I should be offended when British folks refer to us as “yanks.” It seems like an inherently ruder word somehow, right?
(Not that I actually care one way or the other)
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It is mildly derogatory which is why we (Irish people) use it and why will continue to use it.
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Sorry to break it to you but it is a bit derogatory when Irish people use it.
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The person lobbing the insult affirms that it is intended to be an insult. The person upon whom the insult is foisted sees no insult.
As such, no insult has occured as no offense was taken, much as the foister wishes it were.
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Yank was intended as an insult originally but taken as a point of pride in the colonies. So I guess from an “originalist” point of view you should not be insulted.
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We don’t use the word “Brits” in order to offend the British. Nevertheless it is mildly derogatory in the way it tends to be used in Ireland and Scotland but usually in a good natured kind of way. E.g. “this is my friend Steve. He’s a Brit but we don’t hold that against him”.
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Yeah but when did “yank” start being used as opposed to “Yankee”? As a 4-letter word that also can refer to a rude gesture “Yank” sounds more like a pejorative.
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nuf time an all words end up one (uh…) sylb
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I’m Irish myself. I wouldn’t consider “Brits” to be an insult. Probably about as insulting as having a word to describe annoying neighbours, or on the level of the oath you might mutter when you forgot whether you locked your door and have to walk back to check. So yes, like you said
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Which is why I said “mildly derogatory”
It is implicitly linked to terms like “Brits out” and when it appears in Irish songs it is never in a positive context. But it is not a slur and its use these days is more often than not a little tongue in cheek.
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They’re currently polling at 13% in Scotland, with 65% saying that they’d never consider voting Conservative, so the rest of us are fairly stumped by that one as well.(Source 1 Source 2)
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87% of people are rarely this right about something
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Also- as to why this particular Tory is having a meltdown over this mild jab- The Scottish Tories have a particular history as a party which is relevant here. They weren’t called the Conservatives in Scotland until the 1960s. Before then, they were known as the Unionist Party. This was an alliance of the Conservatives and the Liberal Unionists- the part of the Liberal Party which split off over the prospect of giving home rule to Ireland.
All of which is to say that the party has a long association with a reflexive anti-irishness, the sort of “NO NO NO” Unionism that defines northern Irish politics, and the stain of sectarianism that shames and degrades Scotland to this day.
They’re such true-blue(well, orange, actually) Unionists that the prospect of other Scots defining themselves as “not British” and being on close terms with the Irish Government is enough to throw them into a frothing rage.
The best I can hope for them is a safe home and a slow slide into irrelevance that we should have accelerated back in 2014.
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Yank, sure whatever- just don’t call me a “'Murican” 
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