Cris - please do keep deliberately misinterpreting. It is amusing but it does however detract from the central point.
The rise of anti-english sentiment and the support by the yes campaign to villlify their opponents as traitors and quislings as somehow unscottish is darkly and unpleasantly reminiscent of how a number of ultimately - and i use that word deliberately - ultimately unpleasant political revolutions turn out.
It might be a few of us called English Cunts. or our kids getting told they are being sent home. But if it goes unchecked it will only grow. To hear and see yes campaigners minimise this, to laugh off posters getting defaced, to see videos ridiculing opposing ideas is how it always starts.
bit of casual racism -" hey stop complaining - we are only joking"
- "people who vote no are traitors"
It is ugly and in many cases this is how the terrible events of living memory unfold. It doesnt happen all at once - it starts small. I want no part of this and instead of challenging the casual hatred you attack those who call it out as dangerous as - oh yes scaremongering or hysterical.
Yes it is ultra extreme to bring the utter horror of Cambodia into this and yes i may well be criticised for doing so - but it starts with the acceptance of hating your neighbour, it gets picked up by a political movement
I hope that this all dies down next week and we can move on what ever the result - but a lot of the rhetoric from the yes campaign is lighting a fire that will burn unchecked.
So am i wrong to look at how the tragedies start and say that I see a startling worrying similarity.
But - oh yes - it wouldn't happen here.