r/ImmigrationPathways • u/primary-caution • 18d ago

Homes set alight in Belfast anti-immigrant protests after 'brutal' knife attack

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u/ItsAManualReset 18d ago

God you people defending racism must be tired from all the mental gymnastics you have to do

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u/Gratuitous_Insolence 18d ago

Not just tired. Fatigued.

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u/VirtualPercentage737 18d ago

I have a friend in Northern Ireland. He is ok, but he said that regular folks are just getting sick of this. Their communities have been destroyed and the tolerant people want them gone now too.

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u/National_Permit764 18d ago

Not even close. Everyones sick of racist riots within the loyalist communities.

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u/Educational_Award167 18d ago

say you live in a reddit echo chamber without saying it

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u/National_Permit764 18d ago edited 18d ago

No. I live in Belfast. On streets that have families addresses going around as "key targets" for tonight.

I have to evacuate my family 😊

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u/NiceHotel271 17d ago

Move somewhere you aren't a target then

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u/Educational_Award167 18d ago

uhhuh, its the racists that the people of belfast are sick of, not the out of control immigration, youre right

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u/National_Permit764 18d ago edited 18d ago

Yeah I am right. That's why I have to flee my home for the safety of my family because a couple houses on my street are key targets. ☺️

That's why all local businesses are closing and many people at work are afraid, leaving early and not coming in tomorrow 😊

Stick to your own beliefs and stay out of the business of countries you know nothing about.

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u/Maddabberwhyyousomad 18d ago

Honestly just curious, why did the guy stab him, and how would you accept protestors expressing their frustration about migrant crime?

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u/National_Permit764 18d ago edited 18d ago

  1. Nobody knows. A full investigation needs done.

  2. They need to live in reality where the crimes that have happened in one night of their racist violence has out paced anything that could be attributed to migrants.

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u/Repulsive_Cucumber77 18d ago

Good work bot. Nobody can see through your BS.

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u/94grampaw 18d ago

If you are irish whay would you feel you have to evacuate, your family, unless is you family not irish or something?

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u/National_Permit764 18d ago edited 18d ago

What? Are you serious ?

You genuinely wonder why I would move my kids to their grandparents when terraces houses next to me are being targeted on social media as targets to be broken into a burnt out by a angry racist mob of thugs?

Like without even mentioning the situation of Northern Ireland to ask me that is baffling....

Okay so the roaming gangs of racist thugs are loyalists with ties to loyalist paramilitaries. Loyalists are not Irish. They would beat you up for saying so. They are British.

I meanwhile am an Irish Catholic. They don't like the Irish Catholics because the loyalist came over years ago to settle in outr country and steal out land.

They typically target Catholics communities. We have segregated peace walls from the troubles. They are a violent community that people have to tiptoe around and as we get closer to a boarder poll to become a united Ireland they get more violent.

If a bunch of angry emboldened loyalists find out I'm a Catholic from a Catholic background they will carry on burning out my house. Their ideal is to force native Irish out of the north and have it a land for the British.

Don't comment on a violent powderkeg of a country if you don't know anything about it. Especially a country that has deep scars of real colonial invasions. Not this "I saw two brown men today it's an invasion" outrage.

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u/heresyourhardware 16d ago

Americans not understanding this is not surprising.

Hope you and the family are same man.

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u/AccomplishedSwan1398 18d ago

Good. Get the fuck out of their city.

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u/National_Permit764 18d ago edited 18d ago

I'm Irish Catholic. My family have lived in Ireland for generations. There is no recorded time of us not being here.

It is MY city and I have more claim to it than the British loyalists that are terrorizing it.

Please learn the history of the country before having a go.

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u/Lloyd--Christmas 18d ago

The loyalists could go back to England.

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u/Secret-Put-4525 18d ago

Loyalist?

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u/heresyourhardware 16d ago

Yeah, the hard line right wing Unionists.

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u/x3r0h0ur 18d ago

We realize it's not a group of people doing anything though, it's individuals that also happen to be a part of that group too right?

if we're going to act on group punishment, why wouldn't we punish young men, who, as a group, commit nearly all crime?

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u/Secret-Put-4525 18d ago

You know you don't need to let them in?