Every sign I get from my daily life is that as soon as people really internalise the possibility that the media is lying, then it’s just a matter of time… I think they’re going to have to pull out the big guns to keep Scotland in the Union though. So the establishment doesn’t want us talking to them. Posters here probably talk about independence all the time, and we know how so many people are soft No’s or undecided. Further, independence supporters may think they have to preface their discussions with statements such as ‘Some of my best friends are English Pakistani, etc’ and as soon as that happens you’re on the defensive. Not sure if it’s properly called poisoning the well or guilt by association, but if enough stories are published of the type that links independence with intolerance etc then you increasingly get companies banning staff from talking about it because they think it leads to tension and arguments. Posted this on Bateman’s blog too – about what seems to be happening to the debate. We’d expect to read about it in the media, if we were naive idiots. In a week where the Daily Mail and Labour MPs and MSPs have ganged up to harass and vilify innocent ordinary people posting perfectly legal comments on the internet using their own names and photographs, yet have then whined in other newspapers about being “bullied” by people who simply sought to find out whether an event took place or not, Anas Sarwar has crossed a very unpleasant line, whether through stupidity, laziness, malice or all three. At the time of writing, despite these facts having been pointed out to him by several people, Sarwar has not deleted his tweet. That person’s racist comment has been sneakily attributed to Yes voters, and by extension to all “cybernats”. In his eagerness to defame supporters of independence, Sarwar has lashed out cluelessly at an English person living in England who seems rather a keen defender of the UK, much like Anas himself.
Now he’s actually starting to sound like he’s one of Anas’s. He does sound like a sort of nationalist, we’ll grant you. But is he a “cybernat”?Ī Sheffield United fan from Manchester? It’s not the best start. Rick seems a fairly contemptible individual. The comments from Anthony Hamilton, while hostile, are deeply run-of-the-mill stuff, and Sarwar can’t possibly be highlighting them as such extreme abuse that they merit abandoning his usual policy of ignoring online attacks. Now, we have to assume he was objecting to the message from “Rick SWFC Rod” there, as the “part of the Taliban’s Scottish wing” line seems to be a pretty clear racist slur on Sarwar’s Pakistan Muslim heritage. But who’s it from?Ībove is the rest of Sarwar’s tweet. He just can’t get anything right.ĭoing his best to join in with the Daily Mail’s month-long witch-hunt, Labour’s “deputy” leader in Scotland leaps on an abusive and disturbingly racist-looking comment aimed at him.
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