Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever View Post
There is a puzzling view held by some people that those who are in favour of Brexit or Northern Ireland staying within the UK are bigots but people who want a United Ireland or Scottish independence are fine. The first two are bad, nasty types of nationalism, the second two are friendly cuddly forms of nationalism. I've always struggled with this view myself.
Well, I can’t comment about on NI.

But with Scotland one of the most prominent groups of Unionists (that prominence might not be justified) is the Orange Order. So...errr......y’know!

There are ****nuggets on both sides of Scottish independence. But the Yes side in my experience has far fewer ****nuggets. This doesn’t always get a fair representation in the media either. The post referendum violence by Unionists in George Square was heavily downplayed by police at the time. However there was actually a live feed of George square which clearly contradicted this and the reporting of it.

Many on the Yes side consider the movement to be extremely inclusive and progressive. You might disagree but that is a commonly held view. And I agree with them (just for you CL)

Brexit on the other hand has led me to experience a much broader range of ****nuggets. In person, and online. There’s has in fact been a far more frequent and widespread occurrence of ****nuggetry than I experienced in the Scottish Referendum. I’ve genuinely only seen racism and bigotry come from the one side. Is that a fair representation of Leave, **** no, but it’s easy to develop a distorted view from such stand out experiences.