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Scotland and the KKK
« on: October 04, 2016, 09:35:35 PM »
Calling all Scotsmen (and women)

How do you answer the charges laid out in this BBC piece?   ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3xhhv4
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Re: Scotland and the KKK
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2016, 12:19:35 AM »
Quote from: Hope on October 04, 2016, 09:35:35 PM
Calling all Scotsmen (and women)

How do you answer the charges laid out in this BBC piece?   ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3xhhv4
What charges?
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Re: Scotland and the KKK
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2016, 04:33:05 AM »
I can't see any charges, merely an extremely tenuous link between the word "Klan" and "clan", words as old as man.  Some early Klansmen had celtic roots and were territorial, that is all.
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Re: Scotland and the KKK
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2016, 06:58:06 AM »
The outfits appear to have been copied from a traditional Spanish religious clothing design.

http://www.valenciavalencia.com/culture-guide/semana-santa/ku-klux-klan-semana-santa-spain.htm
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Re: Scotland and the KKK
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2016, 11:53:01 AM »
Oh yes, I've seen those before.  Very fetching, not;  I can't look at them without the KKK springing to mind even though I know there is no connection.  In Spain they probably think, "How silly, no-one would look at us and think of the KKK", and they'd be right about silly but wrong about the thinking.
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Re: Scotland and the KKK
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2016, 02:14:49 PM »
Calling all painters.

How do you answer  the charges that a painter was responsible for the Nazi party?

Calling all Russian Orthodox Seminaries.

How do you answer the charges that you were responsible for Josef Stalin?
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L.A.

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Re: Scotland and the KKK
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2016, 04:24:48 PM »
Quote from: Brownie on October 05, 2016, 11:53:01 AM
Oh yes, I've seen those before.  Very fetching, not;  I can't look at them without the KKK springing to mind even though I know there is no connection.  In Spain they probably think, "How silly, no-one would look at us and think of the KKK", and they'd be right about silly but wrong about the thinking.

The outfits do predate the KKK by several centuries, so you can't really blame the Spanish.
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Re: Scotland and the KKK
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2016, 05:01:47 PM »
No of course not, it's just the mental association when you suddenly see pictures  First time I saw the Spanish in those outfits was briefly, when I turned on TV, and I made the wrong assumption.

(In any case, the KKK costumes are tartan lined  ;). )
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Re: Scotland and the KKK
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2016, 07:23:46 PM »
Quote from: L.A. on October 05, 2016, 06:58:06 AM
The outfits appear to have been copied from a traditional Spanish religious clothing design.

Is that Scottish Spanish?
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