Are you a racist?

axel rose wrote: »

DONT VOTE!!!! everyone will know.......

Too late :pac:

wendell borton wrote: »

Ireland is racist so is Hollywood (or so it seems from other AH threads) but the question is are you one.

When I lived in London I was anti racism.
Since moving to Ireland I have become racist.
I think there are too many asylum seekers, and non EU citizens in Ireland now.
The Irish Governments have been too lax with regard to border control in the Common Travel Area. Many asylum seekers that come to Ireland have previously been refused asylum in the UK. Rather than return to their country of origin, they come to Ireland. Only now the Irish Government are tightening border control between the UK and Ireland, but its too little too late. The damage has already been done.
I remember Ireland in the 1980's as a child, and it being rare to hear an accent that wasn't Irish. Or seeing a black person was very rare. I have to say that I preferred it then. I feel that Ireland has lost its identity. We are European now, not Irish. Its not just our sovereignty we have lost, it is our identity. I used to be so proud to be Irish, it really meant something to me. Now I feel ashamed of what Ireland has become. It feels like the Irish have become the ethnic minority in our own country.
Multiculturalism in Ireland hasn't worked. The immigrants don't want to integrate with Irish culture. It is a small country and I feel that we have too many immigrants. Any place where you have a high concentration of one ethnic group, it quickly becomes a ghetto.
I honestly feel that Ireland would be better if it was not part of the EU. We would still have our sovereignty, and it would still mean something to be Irish.

Too many threads about racism lately in here :pac:

But here is a funny story. I know a nigerian girl who is 22. Shes been living in Ireland for about a decade. In 2010 she said to me "Nigerian guys are creepy" ... she went on to explain how they are just too forward and just freak girls out.

Now from my experience I have seen this myself. But somehow I feel if i randomly said that in a thread i would be accused of being racist as i am Irish.

IMO, if you weigh up genuine cases of racism on the left hand ... and weigh up false, inaccurate accusations of racism of the right .... the right weighs a 10 tons more.