Conor McGregor

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436331#Comment_121436331

They don't want to engage. I've been here a long time. Look at any thread about terror attacks and you'll immediately notice snide comments about "the religion of peace" and "cultural enrichment".

I would comfortably either use "xenophobia" or "racism". I think either fit comfortably.

At the end of the day, it's the pretend concern for working class people that I find disgusting. You never, ever, ever see the people who rant about immigration support anything which would benefit the poorest in society once the foreigners aren't on the agenda. If people are concerned, I would suggest writing to their TD and taking back the space from the far right. Sitting quietly just allows the Mattie McGraths and Black & Tan Torinos of this world to take over.

The England flag is a good example. The far right took it and moulded it into their symbol. I met an English lad at a Remain march in London and he said he had one because he was sick of the EDL and others appropriating it as a hate symbol.

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436385#Comment_121436385

Even if you don't engage directly with the far right, their talking points must be taken on board for the purposes of deconstruction and explaining why they're wrong.

I fully agree that xenophobe is a fair term for the far right. My point was more about that term also being levelled at more moderate people who choose to voice a concern about some aspect of immigration. If you push those people away, you're potentially pushing them toward more extreme politics.

There is a fairly direct solution to the far right's overtures to the working class, and it is to create good opportunities and living conditions for the working class. Austerity and economic stagnation seem to always be a big driver of fear of the other.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436385#Comment_121436385

that's the thing, this site used to be riddled with people who would post thread after thread giving out about knackers from the flats getting free houses, margaret cash, single mother dole cheats, it was constant. now they feign concern for these people. if we got rid of foreign people from the country they'd go back to targeting the type of people from inner city communities who protest outside DP centres in East Wall.

has conor commented on the stabbings and hammer attacks in finglas last night by the way? a result of the cocaine industry he has passionately supported.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436610#Comment_121436610

Precisely.

I remember when anti-vaxxers would gloat about the narcolepsy experienced by a minority of children after the Pandemrix vaccine. They never bothered lobbying for accountability, messaging their TD's or even protesting. All they wanted to do was to use the suffering of small children as a soapbox on which to gloat online.

This is no different.

Agent Coulson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436610#Comment_121436610

And a decade ago it was the Poilish that were getting the free houses and prams and taking all the social welfare.

These groups just find new targets every few years.

They never protest outside the drug dealers house the ones that actually destroy the family and neighbours and the ones that want to keep them in porverty.

They actually celebrate them

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436660#Comment_121436660

I remember being at a bus stop on Abbey St inn about 2000 and there were a couple of addicts giving out about the blacks getting car allowances when they come here so they can buy a car, and free buggies and the rest. As if these phony immigrants were the reason their lives turned out so horribly.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436707#Comment_121436707

My boss' PA once told me that immigrants to the UK get 27,000 pounds. It was a Britain First (a white supremacist group) trope doing the rounds on Facebook at the time. When I asked her where I could get the money, she hadn't a clue. When I asked her how it works, it was the same story.

pgj2015

If I ever run into the little knacker I will tell him exactly what I think of him.

TooTired123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121438536#Comment_121438536

Of course you will 🙄

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121438946#Comment_121438946

I would, why wouldn't I?

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436026#Comment_121436026

Could be on the under card at Katie Taylor's Croker fight 😁

Tony vs. Aodhan

Conor vs. Leo or Micheal

orangerhyme

He's utterly devoid of any charm, wit, sense of humour.

Just insulting people like a 12 year old.

I think he's taken too many hits to the head.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436610#Comment_121436610

Has he declared war on Irish mammies following the conviction of an Irish mammy for killing her two children today? He does want to protect children, right?

glenfieldman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121438980#Comment_121438980

Because him or his gang of hangers on would knock you out

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121440960#Comment_121440960

Then I would sue him.

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439418#Comment_121439418

People will look at a case like that and call her evil or crazy. It will be treated as an individual crime - a flaw in that individual's character. But when it comes to an outsider committing a heinous act, that individual has a tendency to be made a representative of the group to which they belong or have been assigned as belonging to.

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439303#Comment_121439303

To much No-No snow uo the nose.

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121444501#Comment_121444501

Is there evidence of him taking snow or is it just assumed?

He was always a twat I'd imagine.

riddles

Whether you like him or not McGregor is entitled to his opinion. You can also indeed question his motivation. Just the same as he is calling out what is motivating the entire Dail and mainstream media to peddle the same agenda.

Agent Coulson

Well his new kid was born in Dubai so the child will be an immigrant when they return to Ireland.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121444490#Comment_121444490

Or to put it another way, he's a racist pos.

Augme

He got more than I expected to be fair to him.

Those polled were also asked if they would vote for former MMA fighter Conor McGregor if he ran for public office but just 8 per cent of those polled said they would, whilst 89 per cent say they would not.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/opinion-poll-support-for-helen-mcentee-increases-after-dublin-riots-and-most-would-not-vote-for-conor-mcgregor/a28014187.html

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121444526#Comment_121444526

He never touched the stuff, gentleman, type of lad that opens doors for women

Ash.J.Williams

Never thought of that actually, all the solo video loons are all about protecting the children but not a peep out of them, perhaps they're paedos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439418#Comment_121439418

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121446467#Comment_121446467

They only comment on crimes committed by immigrants or minorities. They don't care about anything else.

Have a flick through "Gript", majority of the articles are about immigration and race. Almost nothing else.

Larbre34

Its quite gratifying that Irish people are actually much smarter, much more knowledgeable and much more fair than a loud but teeny, tiny minority would try to suggest these days.

McGregor is a mong in an ill fitting suit, thats the beginning and end of him.

I think the support for McEntee is as much a reflected support for the Justice establishment generally, including the Garda rank and file.

I thought she and Harris should resign, but they may well get away with it. And thanks for SFs political naivety, she's safe for 6 months and probably out to the election.

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121446482#Comment_121446482

The far right parties will remain tiny but anti-immigrant views are definitely growing.

SF are supposed to be a left wing, Marxist, pro Palestine, pro refugee party, but I think lots of their base have anti immigrant views. I don't have any data to back this up.

I imagine when campaigning door to door in next election, they'll dog whistle a little to gain votes.

McGregor views are nonsense. He should stay out of politics. I wonder where he gets his info from but it seems to be all from his social media echo chamber. On twitter he tried to use Bernadette Mac for his anti immigrant views but she's being campaigning her whole life for social justice. He did the same with Daniel O'Connell. He's completely clueless about everything and people commenting underneath saying he's brilliant.

I've a feeling McEntee will be quietly pushed aside next year. Maybe Jennifer Carroll McNeill will take her place.

I don't know enough about Drew Harris. It does seem like they just didn't anticipate the riots because the far right protests are normally manageable.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121446524#Comment_121446524

They were just caught off guard, it's like our snow plan, it would be very expensive to have a full public order crew at the ready

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121446591#Comment_121446591

Yeah that's my impression although weirdly I predicted it. I went into the city center to watch and I warned Indian friends to stay away, who didn't listen to me.

Some young guy from Clondalkin told me all his mates heading in to loot and didn't give a **** about immigrants. He was the son of Indian immigrants, maybe 18 years old. Kids that age don't give a **** about race.

I think the Gardai didn't anticipate the size of crowd that would arrive so quickly. The far right numbers are quite low. To be fair, by 8.30 they had it under control.

I don't follow politics enough to call for the head of Harris and McEntee but I don't think they're responsible for the riots or the stabbing of children in Parnell Sq.

Both were completely unprecedented, with no waring signs.

For Forks Sake

Good.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/opinion-poll-support-for-helen-mcentee-increases-after-dublin-riots-and-most-would-not-vote-for-conor-mcgregor/a28014187.html

Those polled were also asked if they would vote for former MMA fighter Conor McGregor, who has heavily criticised the Government's response to the riots, if he ran for public office but just 8 per cent of those polled said they would, whilst 89 per cent say they would not.