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Gript-A source of misinformation. **Read OP before posting**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    So certain brutal murders get excluded cause they got no large-scale rioting or what? The reality is the loyalists didn't have a clear path to pogroms or targeting the innocent via them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭Migdal_Or


    No, we've been over this again and again. You are clearly unwilling or unable to consider the underlying issue in play here that makes this case unique.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    But I can point you to uniquely violent crimes in Northern Ireland that are as bad this. Equally the torture Ogilvie faced in his twenties was as bad as this. That's loyalists in the latter case. But the rioters ultimately don't really care about such violence or even condone it in some cases.

    Also worth looking at how outraged the people of Belfast were in relation to the rioting. That seemed to be making the locals feel far more unsafe ultimately. Naturally gript and its fans avoid that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,832 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Isn't the underlying issue at play here that the attacker was a foreigner, so racists gonna racist?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,059 ✭✭✭plodder


    Yes, the nature of the "gruesome" violence committed by men is one aspect and needs to be discussed at some level in relation to this case. I've seen part of the video and have my own view on that. But, the bigger issue imo is not that. It's the random nature of the target. People are much more likely to be freaked by random attacks because most people (incl. women) are not afraid of the men close to them.

    People can be horrified by certain kinds of violence, while also externalising it with the belief that "that's not likely to happen to me". "The victim was known to the perpetrator" etc. etc. But, these cases are different because of the random aspect. And that inevitably leads to the "why?" question. What was their motivation?

    On one podcast I listened to last week, a contributor seemed sure the Belfast attack wasn't motivated by religion, but wasn't sure if mental health was an issue. I wasn't surprised to hear the first part, but was surprised to hear the second because what does that leave if it wasn't mental health?

    “The opposite of 'good' is 'good intentions'”



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭Migdal_Or


    No. If 'the attacker was a foreigner' were sufficient to explain the riots, we'd see similar riots after every serious violent crime committed by a foreign national. We don't, so that can't be the whole explanation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    Or what? You'll tell the mods on me?

    What Natalie McNally went through was 'similar'. It was a frenzied stabbing.

    But what you were really talking about was 'a similar attack where the person didn't die'.

    Pathetic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    Most women are not afraid of the men closest to them?

    Women are most likely to be killed by a man they know.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭InAtFullBack


    The absolute vile excuse of a man who carried out that horrendous murder of Natalie McNally and her unborn child didn't spark the public disorder you seem to have expected because….

    He was born and raised here, we have always had these vile excuses for a human living in our society and always will, unfortunately - we have no choice in this regard.

    As for the attempted beheading, another absolute vile excuse of a man who carried out that horrible attack - he wasn't born and raised here, but our border controls had a choice in letting him into Ireland or not.

    There is a huge difference between the two.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    So man who commits heinous crimes but is born here = grand.

    Man who commits heinous crimes but isn't born here = Other foreigners get burned out of their homes even though they didn't do anything.

    Got it. It's about the colour of people's skin. Thanks for the confirmation.



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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 46,244 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Leaving aside the racist idiocy to your post, this paragraph needs some clarification...

    As for the attempted beheading, another absolute vile excuse of a man who carried out that horrible attack - he wasn't born and raised here, but our border controls had a choice in letting him into Ireland or not.

    Can you please clearly explain how an immigration service could predict that he would carry out such an act?

    Also remind us where he claimed asylum (and was declined)? Hint: it wasn't ireland!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,059 ✭✭✭plodder


    If you think about it hard enough I'm sure you can figure out those two statements aren't contradictory.

    “The opposite of 'good' is 'good intentions'”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    I'm sure I could think hard enough, but I don't really have the desire to try and make excuses for people who only care when brown people commit crimes, and make excuses for white people who commit equally heinous crimes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,799 ✭✭✭creedp


    FFS who’s making excuses for people of no colour committing horrendous crimes. Such pathetic be kind bull crap. Brown people ffs. Where do brown people come from? Juvenile stuff at it worst.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    People who say we can’t do anything about locals killing people are making excuses for them.

    To rob what the OP said, if you think hard enough you might understand why.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,059 ✭✭✭plodder


    Are you confusing me with the OP? And considering your post above, are you actually suggesting that most women fear the men in their lives?

    “The opposite of 'good' is 'good intentions'”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭InAtFullBack


    Got it. It's about the colour of people's skin. Thanks for the confirmation.

    Where did I mention the colour of either vile excuse of a man's skin colour, I'll gladly wait for you to provide your "got it"

    Again, where did I mention anything about race? I'll gladly wait for you to provide your "racist idiocy" evidence.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 46,244 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Again, where did I mention anything about race? I'll gladly wait for you to provide your "racist idiocy" evidence

    I never claimed that you mentioned race. Nonetheless, your post screams racist idiocy but maybe you are too close to it to see it!

    I note that you didn't answer my questions when you deflected towards your "I didn't mention race" nonsense. Maybe have a go at answering them if you're confident of your position.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,799 ✭✭✭creedp


    Are you serious? You’re so blinkered about your love child immigration that you can actually double down on that crap.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    Nobody is actually disputing anything I’m saying with any facts. Just feelings, vibes and petty wierdo digs like ‘love child immigration’.

    It’s because when you’re all pressed for reasons why there are no protests or burning of buildings when a local commits the most heinous of crimes, you actually have no valid reason other than ‘sure what can we do about it’?

    Yet when an immigrant does it, the response is to target other immigrants who have done nothing wrong

    By that warped logic, because men are more likely to commit the most horrific crimes - should we just target all men?



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 27,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    There is actually lots that could and should be done about it, but as you said, easier just to shrug and say, what a shock, or I never expected it.

    Alas what needs to be done takes effort and would involve many things, things that some in society wouldn't be to there liking.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    Exactly. Any time the conversation of how we stop violent men comes up, the same people grouping immigrants as one and the same clutch their pearls and cry “NOT ALL MEN”

    Correct, not all men, but men.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,799 ✭✭✭creedp


    Take the comments any way you wish. Personally I can’t take seriously this almost pathological desire to defend all immigration on a see no evil hear no evil basis. With the very odd exception posters who are labelled far right racists are simply seeking to have an honest discussion on how to manage immigration in a way that benefits the country and helps genuine asylum seekers who need protection.

    Reducing the discussion to you either love all immigration and immigration policy without question or you’re a knuckle dragging far right racist is juvenile utopian world superficial nonsense IMHO. Each to their own of course



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    Show me where I have 'defended all immigration on a see no evil hear no evil basis', please.

    I'll wait.

    As for your last paragraph, you have done the exact same thing by labelling me as something I am not. So maybe you should take a look at your own attitude before you start pontificating about others.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,799 ✭✭✭creedp


    It’s all very clear isn’t it. Perfectly reasonable to label people as far right racist knuckledraggers for having the insolence to disagree with the hear no evil see no evil immigration supporters



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    Still no evidence then.

    Just as I suspected. You bitch and moan about not being able to have a conversation without being labelled and yet here you are being compatitive because I point out the hypocrisy of those who scream about immigrants commiting crime but have f*ck all to say about when it's someone who looks just like them.

    Have a good evening.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 5,601 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rawr


    @creedp & @For Petes Sake the pair of you, knock it off.

    Enough bickering between you and the debate the issue.

    -Mod



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭OscarMIlde


    A better comparator for the Natalie Mc Nally case as regards protests would be Sarah Everard.

    Natalie Mc Nally and her unborn child were murdered by her partner. There has been no clear motivation for the killing provided, there was mention in some articles that there were messages on her phone discussing breaking up with him.

    Women unfortunately are at greatest risk of intimate partner violence when pregnant or when choosing to end the relationship. Natalie Mc Nally's murder fits that pattern. There was no evidence as far as I can see that domestic abuse within that relationship was known to anyone else or that her partner had a known history of abuse or violence. A protest on the street condemning male intimate partner violence is not going to stop male intimate partner violence.In form of intervention in cases like these, increased awareness by women of signs of abuse and coercive control, and known safe pathways of leaving such abuse are the way forward.

    In the case of Sarah Everard, there were widespread protests following her death. This is because there were clear failings that occurred and clear evidence that Wayne Couzens had escalating intrusive sexual offending. His car had been identified previously in a complaint regarding masturbation and indecent exposure, yet he wasn't identified as a sex offenders and was able to pass vetting. In the days leading up to Sarah's death he committed several acts of indecent exposure but these reports weren't followed up by the time Sarah was abducted and killed. Flashing behaviour, despite being popularised as low risk sexual offense, is a known predictor of likely later serious sexual offences.

    Both murders are horrific. One led to protests because there was a possibility in changing procedures, and also because of the extra shock that a serving police officer would commit such an offence. The other, sadly, was not predictable and there were no failings to protest about.

    “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭lmao10


    You did corner him perfectly and exposed that you wouldn't get actual answers. It was good work.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,799 ✭✭✭creedp


    I’m not going to highlight a specific poster but instead will plagiarise a comment read on this forum which I was so supportive of I screen shot it so I wouldn’t have to search for it later. This is the best description I have ever read of the motives of people who are incapable of acknowledging any issue of any sort with current levels of immigration and current immigration policy. Basically people who are incapable of accepting any criticism of immigration, ie support immigration on a see no evil, hear no evil basis.

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