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| 8-June-2022 |
Those people do not represent anybody but themselves. Songs like the one they sang about Mrs McAreavey are sick and disgusting. There can be no justification for such sectarian behaviour, no “ifs or buts”. It was wrong. It was deeply offensive. It was spiteful. It was sick. Full stop.
Unfortunately, some of the reaction to it has been every bit as hateful, bigoted and sectarian. People have reacted to a hateful incident by being just as hateful themselves. It has become a vicious circle of sectarianism. A closed loop of hate, bigotry, anger, outrage, offence and distrust, leading to yet more hate, bigotry, anger, outrage, offence and distrust.
Make no mistake about it – if we truly want Northern Ireland to work, if we genuinely want our wee country to have normality and stability, then that vicious circle of sectarianism and hatred must be broken.
We cannot break that circle by reacting to hate and sectarianism with even more hate and sectarianism.
Houses of Glass
Unfortunately, some of the reaction to it has been every bit as hateful, bigoted and sectarian. People have reacted to a hateful incident by being just as hateful themselves. It has become a vicious circle of sectarianism. A closed loop of hate, bigotry, anger, outrage, offence and distrust, leading to yet more hate, bigotry, anger, outrage, offence and distrust.
Make no mistake about it – if we truly want Northern Ireland to work, if we genuinely want our wee country to have normality and stability, then that vicious circle of sectarianism and hatred must be broken.
We cannot break that circle by reacting to hate and sectarianism with even more hate and sectarianism.
Houses of Glass
Continue reading @ It's Still Only Thursday.
Ironically, the very title of the blog - It's Still Only Thursday - is a hate banner
ReplyDeleteThe 0nlyThursday blog and associated Twitter account can be found virtue-signalling about the more egregious atrocities committed by loyalists, and then glorifying and lionising the perpetrators. It's bizarre behaviour.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned the blog in a recent piece (https://www.thepensivequill.com/2022/06/unionist-denial-inciting-excusing.html):
A spokesperson for the UFF, possibly Ray Smallwoods, had this to say about the murders his organisation committed:
'We have the arms, the information and more than enough volunteers and the dedication is most certainly there as well. It is a terrible thing that anyone should lose their lives, but if you are talking in terms of success rates, yes, this week has been a success, and it’s still only Thursday.'
An incurious loyalist triumphalist collective decided to name their blog after this, and publish excruciating apologia for loyalist sectarian criminality.
It is easy to dismiss that blog as unrepresentative of wider unionist views of loyalist violence. But it is less easy to dismiss a telephone poll conducted in the days after the loyalist killing spree of March 1993. David McKittrick reported in The Independent that:
One opinion poll carried out earlier this month by a Protestant Belfast newspaper, on the admittedly unscientific basis of telephone polling, came up with the alarming result that 42 per cent of Protestants supported loyalist paramilitaries.