For years loyalists have attacked Catholic churches because they saw Catholics as inferior, as other and as the enemy. "Legitimate targets" in their words.
Now, we haven't changed, yet they want to make common cause with Catholics against people of colour due to the fact that loyalism views people of colour as being more inferior, more other and more so as the enemy. Maybe because the new enemy are often noticeably different in appearance.
In years to come will there be crocodile tears and apologies from loyalists to ethnic minorities because of the way they're currently being treated?
I hope any overtures of a conspiratorial nature from loyalism are passionately rebuffed by nationalists and republicans. We should show common cause with people from ethnic minorities because it's the right thing to do and because we know what the harassment is like.
Any Unionist who shows common cause against the far right is welcome but I doubt any succour will come from those of a more loyalist hue. Shame on them.
The trouble was started by the far right in the Republic of Ireland. Collaborating with the English far-right. Together with Loyalists they are the Trinity of Intolerant Twats.
The far-right in the South of Ireland are abhorrent. Being concerned about immigration is understandable but if you consider it, strange in a country with such a large diaspora across the globe. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, no?
Immigration in the South in 2023 was at an all time high of 141,600. Emigration was 64,000. Net migration was 77,600. 29,600 of immigration were Irish Nationals returning home, 26,100 EU citizens, 4,800 UK citizens, 81,000 immigrants were from the rest of the world including 42,000 Ukrainians. Refugees have to go through a process to claim asylum and need to show they are fleeing death or persecution under the 1951 UN Convention relating to the status of Refugees and its 1967 protocol. Not all asylum seekers are granted asylum. One problem is the Irish government doesn't explain what's going on and doesn't manage things well.
There is a housing crisis in Ireland, a long-term problem, stark even before immigration had an impact. High prices and a deregulated housing market are the problem. Instead of lobbying politicians to halt landlords owning swathes of properties or to stop corporations pushing up house prices through speculation what do the twats do but attack those less fortunate than themselves. Hitting down rather than up. Traditionally the Irish rooted for the underdog as they understood what it was like. James Connolly would be rolling his eyes at today's far-right and those who tolerate it.
The Irish travel all over the world but rarely as asylum seekers. In the past they fled death and persecution particularly during the Great Hunger. Today the Irish travel as economic migrants. Surely we should welcome people fleeing death or persecution. If you had to flee certain death would you like it if someone beat you up in your country of refuge and told you to get back in your boat? Or are you comfortable with your safe journey to a foreign land to make a few quid and to hell with the less fortunate? If you are then shame on you too.
Now, we haven't changed, yet they want to make common cause with Catholics against people of colour due to the fact that loyalism views people of colour as being more inferior, more other and more so as the enemy. Maybe because the new enemy are often noticeably different in appearance.
In years to come will there be crocodile tears and apologies from loyalists to ethnic minorities because of the way they're currently being treated?
I hope any overtures of a conspiratorial nature from loyalism are passionately rebuffed by nationalists and republicans. We should show common cause with people from ethnic minorities because it's the right thing to do and because we know what the harassment is like.
Any Unionist who shows common cause against the far right is welcome but I doubt any succour will come from those of a more loyalist hue. Shame on them.
The trouble was started by the far right in the Republic of Ireland. Collaborating with the English far-right. Together with Loyalists they are the Trinity of Intolerant Twats.
The far-right in the South of Ireland are abhorrent. Being concerned about immigration is understandable but if you consider it, strange in a country with such a large diaspora across the globe. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, no?
Immigration in the South in 2023 was at an all time high of 141,600. Emigration was 64,000. Net migration was 77,600. 29,600 of immigration were Irish Nationals returning home, 26,100 EU citizens, 4,800 UK citizens, 81,000 immigrants were from the rest of the world including 42,000 Ukrainians. Refugees have to go through a process to claim asylum and need to show they are fleeing death or persecution under the 1951 UN Convention relating to the status of Refugees and its 1967 protocol. Not all asylum seekers are granted asylum. One problem is the Irish government doesn't explain what's going on and doesn't manage things well.
There is a housing crisis in Ireland, a long-term problem, stark even before immigration had an impact. High prices and a deregulated housing market are the problem. Instead of lobbying politicians to halt landlords owning swathes of properties or to stop corporations pushing up house prices through speculation what do the twats do but attack those less fortunate than themselves. Hitting down rather than up. Traditionally the Irish rooted for the underdog as they understood what it was like. James Connolly would be rolling his eyes at today's far-right and those who tolerate it.
The Irish travel all over the world but rarely as asylum seekers. In the past they fled death and persecution particularly during the Great Hunger. Today the Irish travel as economic migrants. Surely we should welcome people fleeing death or persecution. If you had to flee certain death would you like it if someone beat you up in your country of refuge and told you to get back in your boat? Or are you comfortable with your safe journey to a foreign land to make a few quid and to hell with the less fortunate? If you are then shame on you too.
⏯Hedley Lamarr is a student of the conflict out of which has developed his strong interest in justice.
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