Anti-British Xenophobia and Hatred in Ireland

This thread will go the same way as any thread on boards that discusses racism/sexism or homophobia.

A group of straight white Irish males will decide that there is no racism/sexism/homophobia in Ireland, it will then slowly work its way to "it's all them anyway, they're the racist/sexism/anti straight ones, before ultimately deciding that, when you look at it, the straight white Irish male is actually the victim here.

Doesn’t really exist. Strong anti Irish hatred in Britain does exist - I recently saw a comment on an American blog (the guy was discussing Ireland in WWII) where a poster celebrated the deaths of millions in the famine. The whole comment section was a hate filled fever swamp. That anti Irish rhetoric becoming increasingly clear with Brexit. Of course BTL commentators in Britain hate most of Europe. The recent AUSUK agreement has unleashed the anti French rhetoric, and of course Germany is still Nazi, or trying to control Europe. The EU is evil.

the (online) British hate the world, basically.

You get it both ways and it’s usually from some absolutely ****. I’ve had it in England once or twice and I’ve seen it here too.

I wouldn’t take online viciousness to be representative of anything though other than online toxicity. Twitter in particular has a cesspool element.

There is definitely elements of nastiness between Ireland and England and it goes both ways on an interpersonal level. It’s usually mild slagging, but it can cross the line.

However, the biggest trap I would avoid falling into is letting the English populist right turn any criticism of them into “anglophobia”. A lot of people (including probably more than half of England at this stage) are very critical of their insane policies at the moment, which are steeped in right wing nationalism and jingoism and have gone out of their way to destabilise Northern Ireland.

Criticism of that is absolutely not anglophobia and I think there’s definitely a spin effort now to go into “oh poor little old us. What have we ever done. I know we may have said horrible things, but now we are being upset by criticism.”

They are doing the same with accusing the EU of being mean or aggressive to them, despite the fact that they ranted and raved, accused it of all sorts of crazy stuff, made disgusting comparisons to the third reich and so on and made regular threats to destroy it.

However, it’s the EU that’s being a nasty apparently 😂

There’s also a regular line trotted out that they’ve been bullied by Ireland - basically, by standing our ground and daring to exist, we have gotten in the way of a smooth Brexit and thus we aggressively bullied them?!

Spin, deflect, spin and claim to be the innocent victim. That’s nothing new.

They can be populist and right wing without being racist.

Priti was threatening Ireland with starvation a while back. If I recall correctly.

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That's perfectly ok. He is called a prick in England as well?

Why this obsession with defending a politician in another country. Someone who is, by necessity, antagonistic to Ireland's desires in Brexit?

I'll be posting inline commentary that doesn't upset the OP for the rest of this thread.

Varadkar should don his red pointy hat, grab his fishing road and jump back onto his toadstool with all the other leprechauns