Being threatened by other peoples culture makes you a sad fuckin snowflake.
Gemini_2261 on
Meanwhile, we’re being lectured that the real threat to Irish people emanates from far-off Russia.
betamode on
And yet we keep being told that a united Ireland is just around the corner…
TheStoicNihilist on
Sad sacks of shite. Reconciliation my arse.
XCEREALXKILLERX on
We must study what kind of magical power people manage to put in place in Wales because they don’t feel less Welsh or less British.
whooo_me on
Is there anything we could do to make the Unionists more comfortable and at ease?
Maybe we could… I dunno. All switch to speaking English. Perhaps we could rename our cities, and towns and lakes and rivers and mountains to English too. Even anglicise the nation to “Ireland”. Or how about: we rename almost every person in the country?
Oh wait. We already did that. But still, the existence of this one Irish language class is a threat to them. “If we can’t completely eradicate your culture, we’re the real victims here!” ?
No-Cauliflower6572 on
Michael Davitt has really said it all, over 100 years ago:
“Orangeism is one of the typical products of English rule over the Irish. […] There is nothing parallel to the character and aims of this combination known in the annals of modern society outside of Ulster. Its real ‘religion’ is hate – a wild, untamable sentiment of ignorant sectarian malignancy, unteachable and unchangeable – and in its origin, record, and raison d’etre it can be truly said to be the living and acting expression of the anti-Irish nature of England’s past government in Ireland.”
That’s really all there ever was to it. And that, precisely, is why it’s going to die. What kind of young Protestant, with any kind of future ahead of them, would want to get involved with that hateful cult? What does it have to offer? Their appeal these days is restricted to people with no perspective and those personally profiting from the unionist grift.
It’s a shame, most of all, because there would be elements of history and culture belonging to that community that are no less worthy of love and preservation than the Irish language. The lambeg drum is objectively a fucking class musical instrument. Ulster Scots poetry is beautiful. But most if not all upper-case Unionists don’t give a shite about these things except if it is as a stick to beat themmuns with. So, unfortunately, there’s a chance that the genuine Ulster Scots culture dies even before the hateful cult parody version dies.
Agile_Carpenter_2265 on
Time to build a high wall along the border and leave them to it.
agithecaca on
These are the lads that were palling about with CoolockSaysNo?
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Being threatened by other peoples culture makes you a sad fuckin snowflake.
Meanwhile, we’re being lectured that the real threat to Irish people emanates from far-off Russia.
And yet we keep being told that a united Ireland is just around the corner…
Sad sacks of shite. Reconciliation my arse.
We must study what kind of magical power people manage to put in place in Wales because they don’t feel less Welsh or less British.
Is there anything we could do to make the Unionists more comfortable and at ease?
Maybe we could… I dunno. All switch to speaking English. Perhaps we could rename our cities, and towns and lakes and rivers and mountains to English too. Even anglicise the nation to “Ireland”. Or how about: we rename almost every person in the country?
Oh wait. We already did that. But still, the existence of this one Irish language class is a threat to them. “If we can’t completely eradicate your culture, we’re the real victims here!” ?
Michael Davitt has really said it all, over 100 years ago:
“Orangeism is one of the typical products of English rule over the Irish. […] There is nothing parallel to the character and aims of this combination known in the annals of modern society outside of Ulster. Its real ‘religion’ is hate – a wild, untamable sentiment of ignorant sectarian malignancy, unteachable and unchangeable – and in its origin, record, and raison d’etre it can be truly said to be the living and acting expression of the anti-Irish nature of England’s past government in Ireland.”
That’s really all there ever was to it. And that, precisely, is why it’s going to die. What kind of young Protestant, with any kind of future ahead of them, would want to get involved with that hateful cult? What does it have to offer? Their appeal these days is restricted to people with no perspective and those personally profiting from the unionist grift.
It’s a shame, most of all, because there would be elements of history and culture belonging to that community that are no less worthy of love and preservation than the Irish language. The lambeg drum is objectively a fucking class musical instrument. Ulster Scots poetry is beautiful. But most if not all upper-case Unionists don’t give a shite about these things except if it is as a stick to beat themmuns with. So, unfortunately, there’s a chance that the genuine Ulster Scots culture dies even before the hateful cult parody version dies.
Time to build a high wall along the border and leave them to it.
These are the lads that were palling about with CoolockSaysNo?