Irish bashing

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Is it just me or have there been an unusual number of threads passive aggressively bashing our Irish sisters lately?

I'm not Irish so not particularly sensitive, but just seems to have come up out of nowhere. Prior to this most Irish threads were about the price of tinned tomatoes in euros and staff booking St Patrick's Day in NYC without authorization.

Peace and love, remember, peace and love.

On Ireland, crusty.

Where are you from?

Thats why this is weird.

My mother was Irish, Im born here.

Here? In Belfast?

What is 'here'? Ireland?

My mother was from dublin.

I have two brothers that were born in Newtonards too... Long story

As a former resident of Ireland, and Irish citizen born abroad, I do feel there has been a lot of Irish bashing.

I'm so glad that crusts came along and perfectly demonstrated the sneering anti-Irish attitude that some posters have displayed in response to seeing our country do something positive.

Otherwise this could have been a thread full of "nope, no Irish bashing here", and "you're imagining it, OP" and "I chose this weekend at random to opine about the IRA and/or women from Ireland having to 'get the boat', nothing at all to do with pissing on the chips of a neighbouring country I enjoy looking down on." Maybe in not so many words .

Thank you, OP, for noticing the awful tone the last couple of days, even though it doesn't affect you personally . And thank you too, crusts, for making plain your blatant disdain and making it impossible for everyone else to pretend no such disdain exists on here. No flowers for you though. .

You said "I'm born here."

here for you is there for me.

I think there's also a bit of a misunderstanding about the strength of Catholic feeling in Ireland too - it's mostly the older generation and the right wing who remain practicing Catholics.

A lot of people will vote for reproductive rights when the referendum comes, particularly the younger generation, and personally I think it will pass. The pain is getting to the referendum, because of the constitution issue I mentioned up above, and also because it is seen as a political poisoned chalice, and most politicians avoid taking any position on the issue - but for a few wonderful few, who will eventually succeed.

To answer the op and to bring the brakes on the bunfight, no, I have not noticed any Irish bashing. Actually ever. Catholic bashing, sure. But that's not really a religious thing, that's just deep seated misogyny.

Dons tin hat.

We do know "here" isn't Dublin.

I just said it was weird that all of a sudden such a catholic society has agreed to same sex marriage yet have skirted over the issue of abortion? weird.

Hey, misogyny isn't a Catholic issue it's a religion in general issue.

So basically, in the spirit of equality, are we all happy to become the women of mn supporting the women of Ireland who are working so hard and doing as much as they can? You know, as opposed to skipping along with the whole divide and conquer thing.

Anyway, it's late, thanks for reading so far.

I love being part Irish and Im proud of the fact I am. Im just a bit meh about the weird liberal jump. It doesnt make sense.

'such a Catholic society'
'all of a sudden'

these are the things you should read up on, and about which you are spectacularly ill-informed.

crustsaway What part is "here" though?

Yes OP I have also noticed it, I don't know how anyone could say they haven't tbh. It hasn't exactly been subtle.

Two threads that spring to mind are the IRA one and the one about irish women needing to be rescued. Full of offensive shite about how backwards ireland is. The irony being that abortion is not even available in all the UK. Maybe they should deal with that before sticking their noses in!

If you think it looks like a weird liberal jump, I'd have to assume, despite being so proud to be part Irish , you haven't spent much time there.

This is not a womens rights victory.

It's a victory for equality.

We get it crust.

You think it's weird.

And your mam is Irish, so you
can say what you like.

Sigh.

joan yes about the misogyny but particularly (in contrast to protestants) prevalent in catholicism) a real second class attitude to women. In that the prods now have quite a few female clergy. Only that.

Don't weigh me in on abortion. Ill get banned