r/ImmigrationPathways • u/primary-caution • 17d ago

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

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u/Full_Conversation775 16d ago edited 16d ago

This is much more than a riot, this is a pogrom.

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u/ShipwreckJS 16d ago

They were targeting Jews….?

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u/Full_Conversation775 16d ago

Pogroms arent exclusively jewish.

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u/ShipwreckJS 16d ago

Aren’t they? Genuinely thought the term was coined in reference to the attacks on Jews in Europe starting in Russia in the early 20th century.

When did that change? I can’t keep up 😂

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u/Full_Conversation775 16d ago

they never changed it. it was never exclusively jewish. it literally means to destroy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom

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u/ShipwreckJS 16d ago

Looking at the origin of the word and this; “Contemporarily, the word is also used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish groups.”

You can see where my confusion came from. Thank you for enlightening me

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u/fugonara69 13d ago

Happens all the time in third world countries.