Anonymous #1 10w

Its still weird asf they’re symbolically burning people but

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Anonymous #2 10w

Still very racist what they’re doing

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Anonymous #2 10w

idk the lore behind the whole thing. Just like the china and Taiwan dispute idk anything about it.

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Anonymous #2 10w

and yes it kinda reminds me over another burning that happened and still happens in america

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Anonymous OP 10w

There is still a semi active war going on between the Irish who want a free country including Northern Ireland and the loyalists who want to stay a part of the UK. It’s been going on for centuries now

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Anonymous #2 10w

Insane i always thought irish were the happy drunks who had good party skills. So im guessing fuck the north irish?

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Anonymous #3 10w

forgive me i did not know ball

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Anonymous OP 10w

This guy gets it

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Anonymous OP 10w

Btw basically a quick crash course of why Northern Ireland is like that is that the British government hundreds of years ago kicked out a bunch of Catholic Irish in the north and gave the land to Protestant settlers mostly from Scotland. The native Irish got their land rights taken away in the south too but weren’t fully kicked out as much as in the north.

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Anonymous #3 10w

On several occasions the Catholics and Protestants revolted together against the English government (most of the Protestants weren’t Anglican and were harmed by pro-Anglican laws) but once Catholic-centered Irish nationalism started getting underway, the Protestants (most of Scottish or English origins) tended towards loyalty to the British crown.

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Anonymous #3 10w

After the south fully gained its independence, pro-independence militant groups like the IRA remained active in the north and entered into conflicts against loyalist militias and British troops. Lots of bombs, not a good time. So that leaves us to today where the majority-Protestant north remains largely British-identifying and many people are staunchly opposed to Irish unification. Some people can be really bigoted against Catholics and Irish-speakers up there.

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Anonymous #3 10w

Lots of people up there do not consider themselves Irish and feel that their rights wouldn’t be respected in a majority-Catholic state. Meanwhile the Catholics up there have been historically mistreated. And many people in the south want a full unification of Ireland under one flag.

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Anonymous #3 10w

So pretty much standard civil war about beliefs and principles. The ones who want freedom are the ones who owned the land and are now being treated as immigrants on their home soil while the colonizers think that they are being oppressed.

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