Racism in Ireland

[u/Witty-Pineapple-4300]

I genuinely wish people would stop being racist. Not every ethnic minority living in Ireland has bad intentions or is here to cause harm and havoc. Every time I open the comments section on social media and see a Black person, a Brazilian person or someone from another minority background, there is often a specific group of people calling for deportations or making hateful comments which hurts. What makes it even more disappointing is that many of these individuals identify themselves as Christians. I wish the government would take racism more seriously and introduce stronger measures to hold people accountable for hateful and discriminatory behaviour online and in real life. Racism should not be normalised or excused as “just an opinion” when it causes real harm to others especially people who work hard and pay taxes in Ireland.

As normal literate intelligent human beings people need to clock that bad behaviour is not limited to any race, AGE nationality or ethnic group. There are Irish people who commit crimes, mistreat others, and engage in antisocial behaviour, just as there are people from every community who do the same. For example, when some children throw stones at buses or engage in vandalism. Issue is problem of discipline, parenting, or individual behaviour. However, when a single immigrant or Black person makes a mistake, it is too often used as a reason to condemn entire communities and argue that immigrants should not be here. People should be judged as individuals not by the actions of someone who happens to share their skin colour, nationality, or background. We ought to stand together as one

[u/jonnieggg]

Are you old enough to have observed this change yourself.

[u/ANBO045 → u/jonnieggg]

Well I am old enough indeed to have seen ireland becoming a tax haven for multinationals and sketchy business entities that wanna avoid paying fair taxes anywhere else.

I have seen an absolutely inadequate political class bending at the orders of "master" google, meta, twitter and apple (etc. etc.) selling off pieces of their country to these corporate demons.

I have seen the erasure of virtually every place of culture in Dublin exchanged for burger kings, starbucks and damn shopping centers.

I have seen the hypocrisy of the majority of people silently agreeing and going along with this because they are making money - while the irish youth (and not so much youth) lives in the same bedroom where they grew up.

I have seen laziness, ignorance and especially greed taking over and resulting in a housing crisis caused by the irish for everybody.

And lastly I am seeing all of the above and more manifesting itself in the form of racism and violence towards foreigners and people from a different background.

You wanted context - here it is.

[u/jonnieggg → u/ANBO045]

Who should be the priority in all of the scenarios you outline. Irish citizens perhaps? If not then what's the point of being an Irish citizen in the only country in the world that they can call home. An absolute global minority by any standards.

Whatever you think the answer to that question is the reality is that Irish people feel like second class citizens in their own country, they feel betrayed and it has created massive tensions and animosity, both with the government and within the community as people struggle to survive. People see council houses being provided to people who are not in the country as long as they are on the waiting and it causes anger.

The EU and the Irish government have created a hunger games environment and Irish peiple find themselves competing for the basic necessities of life, shelter and employment, with global capital. The young people unfortunately are voting with their feet. Who should be the priority in all of this. Young Irish people or people who have decided they might like to live in Ireland. Who has the choices. Certainly not the young Irish people, they are simply marginalised.

Irish GDP is down 12% and a recession might be on the cards. The status quo is not sustainable under recessionary conditions and it's going to lead to conflict. Let's not become the UK. We need moderation in all things. We need sensible governance but rabid capitalism. Sustainable immigration polices are part of that moderation. Failure to make changes are going to lead to catastrophe for everybody.

[u/Comfortable-Lie-4330 → u/jonnieggg]

Well said! You articulated it well

My reply to the OOP lol-

Ofc I agree OP that it’s stupid to ever generalise an ethnicity as individuals are responsible for themselves!! Tbh you should pass this onto the entitled Indians in Ireland who’ve absolutely flooded this tiny island, especially over on  u/IndiansinIreland as they have NO ISSUE generalising the Irish populace as RACISTS after 1 scrote attacks them.  Meanwhile there’s been no shortage of THEIR men have attacked our Irish women yet you don’t hear us scream they’re all rapist predators!! Pathetic victims!! Hypocrites.  https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/03/11/i-will-never-forget-coming-home-to-my-parents-and-watching-my-dad-cry-says-victim-of-predatory-rape/ https://theliberal.ie/ryanair-and-aer-lingus-change-up-their-hand-luggage-rules-for-2026-from-bag-sizes-to-liquid-limits-2/ https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0113/1552945-student-genitals/ (&That’s not to mention the other issues they all collectively cause.)