The Kilt Kops

[DWFII]

You use the term "Kilten Polizei" (German reference), is this some sort of reference that traditionalist are facist or worse.

I don't know what Irish Jack meant but this is the kind of thing that bothers me.

How easily it is, once started...once allowed...for things to degenerate into vitriol.

A previous poster suggested that most of the references to "kilt police" refer to people off the forum. Some do. Most, in my experience, don't. Most are, in fact, located in discussions that reference Traditional Kilt wear. In one way or another, they are all saying, by implication if not directly, that anyone who comments or criticizes about the appropriateness of wearing the kilt below the knees, for instance, is somehow illiberal or even...as you say...fascist.

To my mind it just flies in the face of everything this forum says it's about...flies in the face of all the self-congratulatory posturing about respect and tolerance and gentlemanly behaviour...to indulge in this kind of petty name-calling, no matter who it's aimed at.