We know all about Trump, migration, the EU, Israel and all those international issues. But what crazy stupid thing is unique to the nutjobs in your country?
We know all about Trump, migration, the EU, Israel and all those international issues. But what crazy stupid thing is unique to the nutjobs in your country?
Unionist parties in Northern Ireland freaking out about GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) clubs being present in “Protestant areas” of Belfast. They think people playing traditional Irish sports is a threat to their British identity and basically recruiting children to the IRA.
Unfortunately Belfast is still a city divided, and any cross-community initiatives are still met with hostility, mostly but not exclusively from the Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist side.
Meanwhile they’ll be more than happy to fly Israeli flags, simply because the Republicans support Palestine out of anti-imperialist solidarity.
I didnt expect this whole thing in north ireland to be still a thing
The “Troubles” (sorry I need the scare quotes for such an understatement) weren’t that long ago. Just about one generation.
Yes yes. About 50 years. I wasnt alive back then and to me all before 2000 feals so much more long ago eventhough my grandparents litterly lived threw that time and my parents were born and grew up then.
I guess its also because im neurodivergent, perceving time differently and dont have attachment to a location, nation, religion and stuff like that, why it all just feels foreign that these ideas and events are still so present in peoples minds that they cause trouble (I forgot what i originally wanted to write mid way threw this xd)
The Good Friday Agreement was only signed in 1998, which admittedly is before 2000, but not that far before it.
It still feels like “history” to me! If you know what i mean
Yeah as someone not from there, same. But I am not surprised at the sentiment still being very much alive when many of the main characters still are, too.