The disgusting racism in the Immigration thread

You could have people happy enough to call someone 'mixed heritage' and at the same time deny theres such a thing as irish heritage, say its racist to even consider it could be a thing...

(I don't post in that thread and I'm sure there's worse been said, but I'm sure it's dealt with. Maybe not to your satisfaction, but I don't think mods let outright racism slide)

The first one to mention the dublin rose has

At least that is something then. Why the rose of tralee is being brought up in the immigration thread is anyone's guess, outside of rage baiting against immigrants.

The whole Dublin Rose thing was comical and essentially just rooted out the incredibly thick who forget to try and hide their racism.

Like there'll be Roses whos great great great grandparents were Irish yet its the Irish born girl that isn't suitable to represent Ireland? Real mystery why they have an issue with the Irish born girl.

The mask slips an awful lot. I remember one lad getting hysterical about an Indian man in Letterkenny being awarded a ceremonial position for his volunteer work. Hard to think of a better example of integration but suddenly that didn't matter.

It's just pure racism. It always comes back to the same thing. Always.

Nothing to do with the Dublin Rose

What about those who mask their racism by systematically "just asking questions", cherry-picking "facts", concern trolling, contrarianism, etc - even they aren't stupid enough to openly use slurs.

Everyone knows who they are. The mods do too.

Problem lies in a fact that simple questioning of government immigration policy is for some reason being automatically considered racist.

Examples of how Irish emigrated throughout the history and "if they could why others cant" do not apply because of how immigration policy changed in last few years. I doubt that Irish who emigrated were accommodated in hotels, given full social welfare, medical cards, free travel, food and all other various perks for years on end. I know they didn't get any of that.

Hats off to any immigrant who came here, got on their feet and changed their life. That would be two, maybe three out of 10 in say last 10 years. People do have valid concerns that we provide way more than we can afford, indiscriminately to anyone who come, which simply result in more people coming. If this kind of thinking is racist then feel free to call me that even though it will be funny considering I am also immigrant. There was no accommodation, food or anything offered or provided and if I tried to get any of that 24 years ago I would be laughed at and most likely directed to nearest HSE mental health services.

Celtic tiger died quite some time ago. Some people failed to notice that.

A few years ago in a particular thread, the mods simply nuked all the cranks and agitators - it worked well. Unfortunately nowadays the site is dying and they need all the posters/debate they can get (I understand that)

People have this quaint notion that racists, bigots, etc are open about it - they aren't. On the contrary they excel at staying just within the rules. That said, they are immediately obvious because they are terrible at hiding their fixations.

You are right there's not much can be done considering the decline of the site.

Yes, it's Europeans fault that some countries still live in the dark ages and practice Female Genital Mutilation

It's europeans fault that they use child labour to extract cobalt in the DRC when the powers that be there could just stop this exploitative practice.

It's Europeans fault that people in africa don't seem to understand how to use contraception in order to stop the spread of aids and reduce excessive population growth.

Look at the catastrophe that South Africa and Zimbabwe have has become since majority rule was introduced

Almost all evidence points to the fact that Africa for example has generally got worse since colonialism ended.

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But with education comes reform. It will take time. If we can do it, why not others?

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Because they cant. Some religions wont allow any reform and in fact multiple European countries started catering for these beliefs and made exemptions accommodating things which you naively believe can or should be reformed.

Backdated ideas like racism?

Backdated ideas like Halal slaughter of animals .Backdated ideas like what has happened in the UK where a significant portion of religiously slaughtered meat is being consumed by those who wouldn’t have eaten if they were aware of its origin. UK authorities afraid to ban it because it might impact /offend the Muslims .

Why do you put 'native' in inverted commas? Do you not believe there is such a thing as native Irish people?