Like I said earlier, you had a big rant and didn't offer any reasons for your conclusions. You just claim that Scotland is full of bigots and racists and it's part of our fabric and Scottish life. That is absurd.
no one will deny that there aren't problems in Scotland, but your doom and gloom views seem to suggest that the country is quickly falling apart (or has already crumbled) and there are no positives to Scotland. Hell, I'm an Englishman in the East End of Glasgow and I'm not as doomy and gloomy as you!
Whilst I now think that Biohazard has got his facts a bit muddled up at best and at worst he's massaging the figures to win a point your approach was poor and a more reasoned request would have allowed us to have a better debate instead of this hostile argument that has sprung up against you two.
I explained to you, what Biohazard meant when he said that the problems in England weren't as evident as they were up here but instead of refuting that you are just flatly ignoring it and think that he's saying something totally different. That's why he pulled out his favourite (sorry pal) phrase: 'strawman'.
I am not saying everyone in Scotland is a bigot, what does irk me though is Scottish people looking down their noses at other countries with ah 'well there's nane of that up here ah tell ye'. Because there certainly is.
I'll try be a bit less angry in my following, it may sound like a rant, but it isn't its intention.
In the past year Scotland has had nothing to hold its head up for by way of racism and bigotry. It has been bad in Scotland for decades now, in the past few years people saying 'och it's great, we love everyone up here' glossed over it and in the past 18 months we got shown up very publicly around the world for what is a shame on our country. And saying 'it's a west coast problem' or 'its a football related problem' isn't cutting it. Nobody learns the hate they do at a football stadium for 2 hours every other week, it is a society thing. And you know what, even if it is a west coast problem (which it clearly isn't when folk in Edinburgh happily get 'up to their knees in fenian blood') that still accounts for more than half the population of this little country.
We have a convenor of an 'offensive behaviour bill' who has been reported for being a racist, bigot and anti catholic by one of her employees, who is pressing this bill because 'things wouldn't be even if we just arrested some folk for the actual sectarian crimes they commit' I kid you not, the answer 'because it isn't even' when asked why we needed the law by a professor of a university in Edinburgh appears in the transcripts of our own parliament.
Scotland is a country with a lot of descendants of Irish immigrants. So to is America, Canada, Australia, yet in Scotland it is deemed offensive when people try celebrate this. Not only that, there are articles in the press saying 'hey why you getting so upset' when 50,000 people start singing 'why don't you go home'? 'It's only a song innit?' Yeah, well i'm sure if it was sang at Muslims, there would be a riot.
Scotland along with many other countries such as England, Wales, the US, Canada has Catholic schools, yet in Scotland they are deemed the roots of all evil. Other countries survive without so much hatred towards them, but in Scotland we can't.
I also had the joys of explaining to Americans why people are marching down my street at 8am on a Saturday celebrating a battle of a Dutchman, leading a Danish army in another country killing Catholics. Not only that, the institution bans Catholics or close relatives of Catholics as members. Try answering 'well don't you have anti discrimination laws in Scotland?'
Maybe that answers a wee bit more about my feelings on Scotland, maybe it did come out as a wee bit of a rant, but like i said, Scots people looking down their noses, should look at the above and really wonder, and think about making a change.
As for my nationality, i am Scottish, Dirty Dog will confirm that, he usually thinks am an uppity jock who should... welll i don't think i need continue.
