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She also regularly appears on broadcast media where her default position is to throw around the “racist” epithet like snuff at a wake if anyone dares to contradict her.
As someone who has lectureships in both UCD and TCD as well as another job with the Royal College of Surgeons she has not done too badly struggling against the endemic racism of Boer Ireland, despite what she describes as the appalling “racism in academia.” Most Irish people of course do not have three jobs, many don’t have a third level education, yet they are being accused of having privilege by Dr. Joseph.
She gets a dig in at UCD, which merely provides her with a “platform,” but does credit Professor Kathleen Lynch – never a one to miss an opportunity to remind us of how beastly we are – with recognising her entitlements.
In a current piece in Hot Press, she accuses us Irish of ‘kneeling on the necks’ of black people. Obviously, I do not actually recall having done so of late, even when marking the way too fast Setanta corner forward a few years back, but the oul memory is not what it used to be. Or perhaps it is just a sub conscious desire to kneel on people’s necks, which is obviously just as bad. She offers no evidence when accusing Irish people of treating their neighbours in the same vicious manner in which George Floyd was killed, but then she’s not asked for any either.
Ireland, by all accounts, “became white on the backs and necks of Africans,” and we are now wallowing in “white privileges”. Not only that, but “the racism we experience [in Ireland] is of the worst kind,” she claims. She says that Ireland is far worse even than in “AmeriKKKa” where at least black people can become President, company CEOs, cops and drug dealers, and claims that the fact that Ireland doesn’t have many reported incidents of racism is actually an indication of how oppressive we are.
Black people do, she admits, owe some debt to the white devils. “They taught us how to loot.” She also recently received an email from one of her white students who has chosen as a topic “The hypocrisy of whiteness.” Stout fellow.
Her father, incidentally, was a government official in Nigeria. He is now retired but some of his career must have been spent under the 30 years of brutal military rule during the first period of which the army emerged as the victor from the Biafran war which cost around 5,000,000 lives.
Perhaps I do Dr. Joseph a disservice and have overlooked her expressions of regret and sorrow regarding her own country’s appalling recent history. Perhaps also in the spirit of us all donning the ashes and sackcloth for stuff that took place in the past even though it had nothing to do with us, she will say something about the escalating and murderous attacks on Nigerian Christians, and maybe even the growing gang culture among African young men which does not serve their communities.
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"“became white on the backs and necks of Africans,” and we are now wallowing in “white privileges”. "
ReplyDeleteFuck that's a new one!
The only reason she was allowed stay here was thanks to the ⚓ babies nonsense, no European country has birthright citizenship, the Americans and Canadians only allow people to use it when they turn 18. Eighty per cent of us voted to end this anomaly, yet nobody is deported.
ReplyDeleteIreland will become the new Rhodesia much quicker than people think possible if this virtue signalling doesn't stop.
Matt is always spot on. Best contributor on the site.
Ronan
Delete"Ireland will become the new Rhodesia". So it is back to the days of "Good Old Smithy" then.
I always enjoy Matt's contributions. I do not know enough about Dr. Joseph's pronouncementds but, as it stands, I see no reasson to disprove Matt's account.
DeleteSpraying around racist accusations in such a scattergun say does not advance the cause of antiracism in any way and unnecesarily alienates the majority of Res Publica. It is part of the human condition to resent being lectured to/talked down to/guilt tripped for things we bear no personal responsibility for.
Ireland like practically all othher European countries (particularly those woth colonial legacies) has race problems but insulting a nation from on high as Dr. Jospeh seems to do will merely exacerbate them.
To justify her job she has to be controversial and find faults were there are none -the Irish electorial system is more democratic than the US 2 party system she says is better -because no black person has been elected president of Ireland is not racist -none (that I recall) has ever run for presidency and if they do then the final decison will be based on the final count of votes; I'm being snide rather than racist -but election are run differently in Ireland than in African countries with systemic vote rigging and other manipulations. Perhaps she has her eye on the presidents seat and thinks it should be gifted to her -positive discrimination and all that.
ReplyDeleteI am all for equality but if DR Joseph or others wish to disregard Ireland's priveleged history of genocide, oppression, discrimination, slavery, deprotations or indentured servitude then she should expect push back. The Irish gained or achieved nothing on the necks of black people and it is insulting of her to suggest otherwise. Any previleges she feels that the Irish working class have were hard won from struggle and sacrifice and not gifted to them.
I think Matt handled this in a very competent and fair manner. These are matters that need discussed. There is no reason whatsoever to nod approvingly and deferentially to those who need to believe rather than understand and so create a high priestess/priest caste of anti-racism so that they can feed people the same quality of bull that racists seek to feed us.
ReplyDeleteIn Belfast I recall the same sort of persecution narrative being argued by the Islamic Centre in its bid to suppress the anti-Theocratic Danish cartoons. I thought it bogus and an attempt to mystify.
There is racism in Ireland. People do find themselves persecuted because of their colour or nationality. Those who speak out against it and fight it should be encouraged and supported. But those who claim to speak truth to power are obligated to speak truth about power. Speaking clearly rather than shouting loudly is what will best enhance public understanding.
People should be far more wary of the Chinese, I see in Belfast they have stayed true to type and ignored due process by ripping down hedges and installing metal fencing around their Malone Road consulate. They do this type of thing all the time in Australia, do want they want and pay the fine. Then cry racism when people object.
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