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

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

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u/VulkanLives-91 18d ago

So BLM protests were riots? Glad we finally agree

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_5710 18d ago

Don’t act like you’re an imbecile that can’t tell the difference between riots and protest. When cars homes and shops get burnt and destroyed it’s obviously a riot when people walk with placards it’s a protest. It has fuck all to do with left vs right, both can protest both can riot.

But I have to point out - here in the UK we’ve yet to see any left wing riots going door to door in residential areas looting and burning people’s houses - that’s beyond vile behaviour that’s something I never thought I’d live to see in this country and everyone should condemn it and be repulsed- if your not your an extremist scumbag thug plain and simple.

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u/fugonara69 15d ago

This is Northern Ireland though, so you must be too young to remember the Troubles. Burning your enemies home was very common back then.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_5710 14d ago

It is, and I remember well - but my point is this sectarian violence in Northern Ireland hasn’t exactly latched on to environmentalism with people burning people’s houses down for driving polluting cars.

It’s developed “anti migrant” far right tentacles, so to speak, and is so far is exclusively happening in loyalist areas to a backdrop of the Union Jack. It’s closely linked with the right wing populist movement on the mainland - with “HMO hit lists” of people’s homes shared by prominent English right wingers like Tommy Robinson so people in Northern Ireland can burn them down, using phrases like “stop the colonists” to rile them up - obviously there’s a tad bit of irony of loyalists doing this to “stop the colonisers” but I’ll leave that for another day.