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“What radicalized you?” Idk maybe growing up thinking they were cool as shit?

Anonymous 5w

Learning true black history radicalized me

Anonymous 4w

Learning about British crimes and how they bury/rewrite history

Anonymous 5w

Learning nearly every woman in america started dealing with men staring at around age 12. No one ever discusses this

Anonymous 5w

Irish were active participants in the British colonization of India and Irish officers committed some of the most ruthless acts and massacres against the native Indians. A peoples that have known collective trauma will apply that trauma onto others. (Example: Jews->zionists)

Anonymous 4w

Tiocfaidh ár lá

Anonymous 5w

There’s some research that extreme conservative radicalization usually follows major negative life changing events, and that in order for them to move forward they create a framework that shifts the blame externally in a way they are used to, or that feels safe for them.

Anonymous

thereal._.ruckus 5w

Paralleling the black american experience to the Irish experience helped me understand generational trauma and systemic oppression a lot easier growing up too ngl.

Anonymous

OP 5w

Usually when I explain the black experience I try and find those parallels cause it’s easier to understand something if it somewhat affects u. Yk?

Anonymous

thereal._.ruckus 5w

I do the same, especially lately when it comes to Palestine.

Anonymous

#5 4w

Even large case Spain and Portugal. Colonized then becoming the largest colonial empires in the world

Anonymous 4w

Also for many Irish soldiers they didn’t have a choice. The army was one of few opportunities to make decent pay. That many crimes had people sent to the army as punishment.

Anonymous

#5 4w

While I’m not justifying individual actions - you do know the context here right? Irish people, who were oppressed and living in poverty being asked to not support a military system they were actively being groomed into both economically and with threat of force isn’t the same as England directly oppressing countries. If your options as an oppressed peoples are starve or join a corrupt military system - you aren’t actually given much agency there. So obviously it’s not a good thing, but I

Anonymous

#5 4w

I would push back on trying to compare Israel’s actions in Palestine to Ireland’s actions in India. You’re comparing a state with full agency to a state that was oppressed under a colonial system.