Giant Bonfires up North 🔥 …. What’s the deal ?

oh absolutely, I would condemn any racism on them. I was writing a post not an essay.

But the thing is you didn't condemn it in either of long posts. You didn't even raise it which I felt was strange.

So let me be clear. The boat on top of the bonfire was disgraceful and should not have happened.

…and again, you're not mentioning the anti-Irish flags and other bigoted symbolism

Out of the other thousands of bonfires, a few had Irish flags on top of them - fewer every year.

Cool. I'd love to look at those statistics if you could share them please.

I wouldn’t be comfortable using the word condemnation. I would prefer education, about the many good Irish people who love that flag and move peoples thoughts away from those who used it to celebrate sectarian killers. I think the move is clearly that direction which is healthy.

So you won't condemn the bigotry and sectarianism and instead offer some mealy mouth nonsense.
The deliberate assumption that the tricolour represents sectarianism because some terrorists is a deliberate choice. I look at the Union flag but don't see the same sectarianism. It is the same reason why one side is clearly refusing to see the other as equals - a refusal to move on.

I think ‘oh ah up the ra’ chants in social areas is inappropriate and therefore also think the burning of the Irish flag is inappropriate.

I never mentioned chants (and am opposed to it although I do understand that many young people haven't a clue and shout it out without knowing what it means).
Your condemnation of the burning of the flag tool a long time to get out there despite it seeming conditional.

I would say the 11th night is a much more single identity event than the 12th, and it’s also mainly young people who have been drinking during the evening - so don’t expect angels

The "when" is not the issue - it is the manner on which these triumphalist events are carried out. You may not see it but it there in plain sight if you choose to look.

yes, I try to be consistent. If a community that has suffered at the hands of loyalist or British forces see the union flag as a standard that was carried out under, then I certainly would not condemn that community if a union flag was put on top of a fire. again I would prefer it did not happen and I feel it’s inappropriate.

So to be clear, you have no problem with celebrations that are clearly triumphalistic and which openly celebrate intolerance, hatred and bigotry against your neighbours regardless of the community celebrating or the community feeling intimidated? We'll remember that.

I really thought you were above that statement about my nationality - I am surprised.
Surely, you’re not suggesting that English people are going to decide what nationality each of us on these islands are?

I really don’t want to go down this route of condemning peoples nationality. I am British and Northern Irish, and have my passport to prove it.

You deliberately asked a stupid question so don't be surprised when your question generates a reaction that you don't like - although, I did not condemn your nationality,
However, am I wrong in what I said? I'm well aware that the GFA allows you to declare yourself as Irish, British or both (despite what the British civil service assert!) but am I wrong in how you and your identity are perceived by those you wish to align to?

The strange thing is that on the whole, the nationalist community are doing what they can to reach out the hand of peace (and I say that as someone who will probably never vote for Sinn Fein). it is generally the unionist hand that is pulling away from what I as an impartial observer sees it. Based on your posts here, you still insist on seeing yourself as a victim but refuse to see people from the nationalist community who have gone through the same traumas in the same manner. The likes of this nonsense below is a good example of where you think because your community is determined at all costs to have their fun, and you claim that the republican community despise you (whihc is a claim that I don't believe would stand up to any scrutiny)? However, (to play your game) if they despise you, it is more likely down to your absolute intolerance and your complete obliviousness about that intolerance rather than your religion or political allegiances - but alas, you think you can see the reality but clearly you cannot.