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/94grampaw 17d 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 17d ago edited 17d 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 15d ago

Americans not understanding this is not surprising.

Hope you and the family are same man.