BLM in Dublin

Glad to see someone beat me to it. I was holding off given the holidays.

Yeah, as per usual with BLM, a black man was killed for criminal behaviour, and so gangs (perhaps hoards is more appropriate ) of black youths go out hassling and apparently assaulting people in response. I saw a video where I believe the Spar it took place had to lock the shutters to protect staff and customers from said gangs. This wasn't the only building either. And of course, the same BLM phrases were being shouted around. I saw another video of a gang of about 20 black youths following a woman back to her car for no reason. Not that the media would bother to cover that aspect of it. Just the "peaceful protest" that happened in town.

If this doesn't prove to people that all these Black race-relations issues are all complete and utter BS - that too many people in the black community simply want an excuse to act like thugs - then nothing will. This country has never done anything to black people. On the contrary, we have been sending aid and peace keepers to Africa for years, and allowed black people into the country to find better lives for themselves; and what's the thanks we get? Accusations of racism, white supremacy, white privilege, etc? Never grateful, always entitled. The reason so many black people are upset isn't because we haven't been good to them; it's literally the exact opposite. Too many understand that they can come to the West and slander and even beat the crap out of us (if not outright murder us), and we the spineless moron white people will apologise to them for the privilege. Because obviously we must have done something to upset them in the first place. And obviously white people should be held guilty for something that happened decades or even centuries ago, by someone they're probably not even related to; but to expect a criminal black to be held responsible for things that they have personally done with their own hands would, of course, be racist.

There is no reasoning with these people (BLM or their "white allies"). They like to play the intellectual when it suits them, and then when you show them up on the arguments they simply resort to screaming about "white privilege" and "diminishing my experience as a person of colour". The problem with the Black community isn't lack of reparations, but lack of responsibility. The fact is, white people could disappear off the face of the Earth tomorrow, and a thousand years later white people would still be blamed for everything wrong with Africa and the global Black community. We are basically the original Sin of black people - because they were wronged in the past, they are apparently now in a permanent imperfect state.

I think it's about time white people stopped being such utter cowards, and started being demanding back. At least we have legitimate reasons to do so. Do you think BLM would ever protest - as in an actual peaceful protest - in some Arab country? Of course not, because we all know what happen if they did. They know they can get away with acting the way they do in the West, so they do. How many of these tools do you think have so much as picked up a history book, never mind read one? If these young black thugs are looking to turn Ireland into an ethnostate, they're going the right way about it.

These people are a Joke and the victim mindset for Black people
(I would prefer he just said we're he is from in Africa) in Ireland makes no sense. The Irish Catholics were subjected to hundreds of years of oppression by the neighbors and does not feed into this black/ white narrative.

If we had any kind of strong culture and leadership these clowns would be deported or arrested for spreading cancerous ideology and trying to destabilise the nation.

I heard Peadar Toibin describing Aontú as a left-leaning party yesterday on rte. I wonder is it necessary to define in those terms at this point? Pro-life and left-wing. Maybe a bit of a contradiction - would it stand up to scrutiny especially at the moment when the government is taking such liberties?

Completely agree. The whole Social conservative has to be a Capitalist point is very American and I think problematic.

One has to wonder who is on the right or even centre-right in Irish politics! I haven't noticed that FF/FG are in practice any less redistributionist than any of the others. Socially they are all to the left except Aontú.

In all honesty I am somewhat left of centre economically myself.

The Left-Right paradigm is a false dilemma. That’s when you claim that there’s only two options, and it’s an either/or choice.
There is a broad range of choices between those two.