AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

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Why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?

Is the open borders narrative that important to them that they feel the need to ignore one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a UK street?

I despair for the future of the UK. It’s grim.

All my classes were cancelled, staff sent home and building locked up just before 11 this morning. All buses were cancelled around 12, leaving loads of people miles from home.

DS1 has gone to collect DS2 whose school is 2 miles away.

Stay safe.❤️

Oh nooo it's only loyalists from loyalist areas anything else you say is <checks notes> 'fact resistant'.

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Yep. Has anyone told him he's a loyalist now as some self appointed 'fact non resistant' mumsnetters has decreed it so.

Yes please don't try to help me anymore I'm tired of repeating myself. You don't understand let's move on shall we.

You can deflect all you want. I don’t give a shit was GA said. This is about the reality on the street right now.
People that live here know the truth. Newtownards rd, sandy row, shankill, Donegal pass, Cloughfern eg all loyalist strongholds. I haven’t read of any disturbances in nationalist areas- peaceful protest yesterday in a few areas but no sustained attacks. Happy to be proved wrong.

I’ve watched the past few months union/ uvf flags being erected (huge ones- bigger than ever). The bonfires are in full flow. Must’ve got some new funding for that- oh no wait they steal the pallets (ongoing investigation).

The past few weeks we’ve seen a Muslim business owner burnt out in the shankill, far right protesters (with uvf and union flags) shouting abuse at a peace march. Reporting last week (before Monday night) of ethnic minorities (in loyalist areas) stocking up on essentials so that they can take cover over the 12th due to intimidation and rioting. Well unfortunately those people will be under cover from for the foreseeable.

there has been a long history of loyalist/ unionist communities being unwelcome to anyone other than ‘like them’ us’. It’s been going on for decades and decades.

Did you not check the very serious situation in Belfast before posting Loyalist terrorists my arse? Even after Adam's statement? You weren't curious enough to look at what's actually happening?

The racist violence is happening in predominantly loyalist areas, orchestrated by loyalist terrorists.

Well I think I’ll believe the chief constable and unionist leaders who agreed this morning that the violence was predominantly in loyalist areas. Plus I have eyes and ears and know the areas and the community division lines very well.

I've no idea why we've derailed this into a loyalist/ republican thing anyway. We know both 'sides' have been involved. Thugs are thugs and yes in NI there does seem to be a higher concentration than anywhere else I agree.

The point of the thread was it seemed to be kept quiet initially, it then erupted and is now everywhere.

People are allowed to protest but of course violence is wrong obviously. Who actually cares if they are republican or loyalist?! Let them be judged by their actions not their political preferences.

'Even after Adam's statement'

Oh please. Gerry's 'rascism' is wrong guys statement <not as bad as blowing innocent people up obvs>.

It's attacks, plural and it's all over the news channels.

I guess you only want to talk about the stabbing though.
Violent thugs burning homes while people are in them not so high on your list.

You clearly did not hear all about it.

Get you, with your pesky facts.

You are spot on.

I am in Belfast and we're getting ready for night 2 of riots, with more road closures announced and plans for the riots to start even earlier tonight. We've been sent home from work early, daycare have contacted all parents to lift their kids early. My daughters school trip today was cancelled.

The fear a lot of us have anytime anything like this kicks off is massive, its a whole different ball game here.

It is a tinder box ready to ignite for all sorts of reasons, and it seems to me that an undercurrent of violent intent is just under the surface waiting for the chance to get going again.

So accurate.

It was all reported on yes.

Anywayyy as I've said who gives a rat's ass if its loyalists or republicans, not me. The violence needs to stop, the family of the poor victim have called for calm. Maybe the local rabble rousers will take a bit of notice of them if not man of peace Gerry gobshite Adams.

Nobody’s derailing it just trying to point out your inaccuracies and continuous bias when you have repeatedly put ‘troubles’ and IRA in the same sentence with no mention of loyalist paramilitaries and murder by British forces.

I actually care if it is loyalist or republicans because I care about the FACTS.

3 arrested after a night of violence. It doesn't sound like a night of violence does it or are NI plods a bit slow on arrests nowadays?

I put 'troubles' because it's the name given to the conflict?

I have said there were murders by loyalists and republicans?

This isn't the troubles though. Some of you seem very keen to keep the sectarianism going.

These are thugs protesting and their political leanings should be irrelevant.

Just found myself nodding away in agreement with a member of the DUP. Never thought I would see the day.
Brian Kingston, don’t know his background before posters jump in on his character.

Northern Ireland is one of the most dangerous places to be a woman in Europe, with the highest rates of VAWG and an alarmingly increasing rate of femicide as a result of prolonged exposure to violence.

So yes - disruption, fear, atrocities by the IRA 'war torn' (and loyalist paramilitaries that all the English negate to mention) has affected violent behaviour here.

Notice the only paramilitary group they can mention in their "we heard all about the troubles" is the IRA.

You don't think last night was a night of violence in Belfast?🤯

I don't know if you're aware but he's not from Northern ireland

Says it all, no understanding of what this mob are because they know so little in the first place

It is thugs protesting and in the wider northern Irish political landscape it isn't irrelevant. The fact you think it is highlights the problem infact not that you know enough to see that