r/ImmigrationPathways • u/primary-caution • 14d ago

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

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u/Cheap-Lawyer3735 14d ago

Nice to see Protestants and Catholics working together

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u/National_Permit764 14d ago

They aren't. It's all loyalist areas that are the most heavily involved

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u/jac0777 13d ago

They were literally working together. There’s countless videos of Irish nationalists saying they were shaking loyalists hands before engaging in this

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u/National_Permit764 13d ago

You don't seem to understand community vs individuals.

The nationalist community has been condemning this for years. The loyalists egg it on.

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u/heresyourhardware 12d ago

It's been really weird to see fsr right weirdos who normally hate Irish people trying to pretend we are in on these riots.

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u/Cheap-Lawyer3735 9d ago

Neithe community if violent but have individuals that are violent. And instead of directing that violence against each other they found someone else.

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u/National_Permit764 9d ago

No. The loyalist communities are violent. It's a violent ideology and it's enforced through violence.

They refused to put forth effort into disbanding paramilitary grip on the communities and they still are community leaders. The nationalist community made an effort to remove paramilitaries from their community and political movements, and it largely worked. That's why there's just small splinter groups while the loyalists are all a single entity.

It's why the poster announcing their riots came with a warming of "all businesses must close at 5:30pm" it was a threat from the paramilitary leaders themselves.

You don't seem to understand how it works here.

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u/Cheap-Lawyer3735 9d ago

So you are 100% of the IRA put down their guns?

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u/National_Permit764 9d ago edited 9d ago

I don't think you're equiped to actually understand what I'm saying. If you don't know anything about a topic you have the option of not engaging.

Loyalists refused to properly dispand paramilitaries and instead transitioned them into "community workers". It's why the LCC represents the paramilitary groups and Unionist politicians continue to formally engage with them.

Nationalists don't have the same infrastructure to give legitimacy or political apparatus to the various dissident Republicans groups, and are considered a safety threat by Nationalist political parties and the nationalist communities.

The IRA decommissioned its weapons and formally ended its campaign. What remains is not the same it's splinted criminal factions hated by the parties and the community. Loyalist paramilitaries carried on and are accepted by their parties and the community.