I think Scotland is somewhat tricky for them, because while yes, there was the whole Wallace/Bruce/Rob Roy period, there was also the fact that the Scottish later directly participated in, and benefitted from, colonialism, were some of the "worst" "colonial masters" to be subjected to (on an individual level), and also contributed massively to fucking over the Irish...
Similar for the Welsh, albeit they had less power in all that.
And then there's the fact that the Lowland Scots treated their Highland brethren worse than pretty much any Englishman of the period, which, again, complicates things. Which I'm pretty sure even the Simpsons joked about, lol.
So... Scotland is a tricky one for the wokies. Like Canada and NZ, lol.
But you're also not wrong about Braveheart itself, and the awkwardness of Gibson, to these types, ha.
Edit: As an aside, Scotland's "rebranding" as anti-imperial, "we were colonized first!", etc., etc., is exactly what Austria did after WW2, to distance themselves from the Nazis. Which is why, in large part, Austria has such a distinct "national identity", now, to differentiate from its "German-ness". Vis a vis for example Bavaria, which is also Catholic and non-Prussian, but which was part of the German Confederation, rather than being "Anschluss-ed". I was not aware of this until recently...
History is written by the censors, and all that...
I think Scotland is somewhat tricky for them, because while yes, there was the whole Wallace/Bruce/Rob Roy period, there was also the fact that the Scottish later directly participated in, and benefitted from, colonialism, were some of the "worst" "colonial masters" to be subjected to (on an individual level), and also contributed massively to fucking over the Irish...
Similar for the Welsh, albeit they had less power in all that.
And then there's the fact that the Lowland Scots treated their Highland brethren worse than pretty much any Englishman of the period, which, again, complicates things. Which I'm pretty sure even the Simpsons joked about, lol.
So... Scotland is a tricky one for the wokies. Like Canada and NZ, lol.
But you're also not wrong about Braveheart itself, and the awkwardness of Gibson, to these types, ha.
Edit: As an aside, Scotland's "rebranding" as anti-imperial, "we were colonized first!", etc., etc., is exactly what Austria did after WW2, to distance themselves from the Nazis. Which is why, in large part, Austria has such a distinct "national identity", now, to differentiate from its "German-ness". Vis a vis for example Bavaria, which is also Catholic and non-Prussian, but which was part of the German Confederation, rather than being "Anschluss-ed". I was not aware of this until recently...
History is written by the censors, and all that...