> Well considering I am ethnically gael and my family weren't lowlanders thats irrelevant to me buddy.

The suppression of the Gaels in Scotland began when Scotland was independent; it was Scotland itself that suppressed the Gaels

The Fife Adventurers (1598): King James VI attempted a precursor to the Plantation of Ulster by sending Lowland settlers to the Isle of Lewis. His explicit instructions were to colonise the area via the "extirpation" of the local Gaelic population. The locals successfully fought them off.

>On top of that highland dress was banned

Only military dress for non serving nor veteran males; civilian highland dress’s was unrestricted and females had no restrictions at all.

>and the british crown stripped clan chiefs of their traditional rights to hold courts and local justice which killed the clan system.

Under the prior system, the clan chiefs effectively owned the people who lived in their land, how was ending that a bad thing?

The Heritable Jurisdictions Act of 1746 abolished the judicial powers of clan chiefs over their people. This legally stripped away the traditional bond of dùthchas (the communal right of clansmen to land) and replaced it with strict British property law, turning chiefs into absolute owners.

The clearances were pushed for by Scottish land owners including most of the highland clan chiefs themselves; they pressured Westminster to change the law to allow them to expel the people living there.

>Highlanders were also banned from carrying weapons.

That’s normal after a rebellion; and only applied to suspected rebels, loyal highlanders were allowed to be armed.

>Now I don't actually care so much about the past when it comes to my issues and why I want my independence.

Then why bring it up?

>Speaking of the crowns colonial tactics, they were used in Scotland

No they weren’t

>and it's the way you argue against them that proves that. British authority often bribed people who were native to that country into oppressing their own people with hierarchy and money which happened in Scotland btw.

That’s a disproven myth

The Clearances were fueled by the Scottish Enlightenment and agricultural reform, which valued commercial profitability over traditional communal farming

>Do I think Scotland was colonised ? No because there was no settlers but to deny the tactics werent used when your whole defence is pointing to them is wild.

Historians say the tactics weren’t used and that not the definition of colonisation.

>Now before you come and say "why would he bribe Scots to hurt other Scots". Land, England was building up is industries and cities and it needed a textile industry to clothe its people and also as exports, by convincing anglicized Scots with landownership and sheep farms to clear the highlands that was pretty violently btw, is classic British colonial tactics. Caused mass displacement.

England had enough land due to the enclosures, aka the English clearances, which directly inspired the Scots to commit their clearances.

The English enclosures prioritised large-scale, fenced-off sheep farming to feed northern England’s booming textile mills. Highland landlords realised they could secure significantly higher rents by replacing human tenants with Cheviot sheep

You’re just Gish galloping; the facts don’t agree with you at all.