But this was the British army and the police being in cahoots with parliamilitaries? For a prolonged period.
So basically the British took over Ireland, then gave some of it back but kept 6 counties. Then they had to come in to protect Catholics who were being severely oppressed in every sense. And then they took up with loyalist parliamilitaries and murdered Catholic civilians.
And we are still reeling from that shit show and you are ambivalent?
Do you think it's ok for Catholic school girls to be spat on by the army for no reason?
Do you think that it's ok that Catholic men and teenage boys were rounded up in the middle of the night and took to internment camps?
Are you actually ambivalent to think of the British army dragging young men out of their beds in the middle of the night, and severely beating them before throwing them into those camps where they stayed for years without ever being charged for a crime?. Those camps were horrific. Lack of food, lack of sanitation, physical abuse daily, tortured, held in cages and barbed wire every where.
Are you ambivalent if you think of Nazi camps?
@Alliswells
Honestly? I am not the most emotive of people and I can detach the facts of a situation with the horrific impact on others. I have worked with a variety of rather hideously unpleasant people in my time - serial killers, molesters etc so my tolerance for the intolerable is rather high. I have to hear the most terrible things humans can do to each other and treat those people that did those things with respect and dignity. I suspect if I couldn't do that I wouldn't be able to keep the public safe.
I don't doubt for a second that people suffering extreme things and would never condone any harm to another person. And at the same time I think it's naïve to suggest that the average person has much of a connection with events outside of their sphere of influence.
Maybe this is a defensive mechanism.