Protesting against asylum seekers and their places of accommodation is wrong.
Asylum seekers and refugees are not responsible for creating and maintaining the grossly unfair, iniquitous system existing in Ireland today.
So no-one should allow others to use their justifiable anger at the state of our country; the collapsing public health services, money grabbing landlordism, no available public housing, poor wages, no job security.
Migrants and asylum seekers have not caused this mess or made peoples’ lives harder or deprived children of anything.
We need to channel our anger at those responsible. The blame lies with the Irish elites, the landlords both corporate and local, the employers who pay slave wages and those who govern over this state of affairs.
If people focus their anger on migrants and asylum seekers then they are letting the powers that be of the hook.
People are right to be angry but must make sure to hit the right target i.e. the 1% who run and control our lives. Kick up not down.
The solution is to change the system that’s at fault, not to blame those who are not.
Tommy McKearney … Joint-Chair Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum
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