Comment on The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and Wales
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 5 weeks agoNot sure if you heard, but Ireland had this big thing over the English living there. Northern Irish protestants are English.
dirtybeerglass@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
Ulster was settled by English and Scots 400 years go, so if that is English to you fair enough. I can only hope your education wasn’t expensive.
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
You don’t belong here, reactionary. Would you tell First Nations Americans that the white Europeans occupying their lands are real Americans, representative of them? Do you tell Palestinians that their occupiers are Palestinians?
Like I don’t understand why you’d bring such an obviously ignorant take to the table - do you genuinely know nothing of why it’s Ireland and Northern Ireland? Do you know nothing of the Troubles? Do you think the violence and ethnoreligious lines just disappeared when the good Friday agreement was signed? Do you not know about them because your education was inexpensive?
dirtybeerglass@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
I think you’ve forgotten what the article is about and in anger, entered into performative leftism.
If you want to argue against my position that the article is claptrap, hand picked for a welsh audience, let’s go.
If you want to get into a fight, as you seem determined so to do, over broader and unrelated topics like colonialism and imperialism, there are plenty of people who will indulge you, but I will not.
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
Your position is based on your assumption that unionists in northern Ireland are representative of Irish people rather than English people, despite an ongoing race war over their englishness. Catholic and protestant communities are still walled off from each other to maintain the relative peace. The idea that imperialism and colonialism are some unimportant detail of the past is preposterous, they’re ongoing issues that make up the core of northern Irish politics.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
To be fair, you were the one who was quick to jump to insults.