The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84113   Message #1562390
Posted By: GUEST,Tír Eoghain
12-Sep-05 - 09:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are we anti-Irish?
Subject: RE: BS: Are we anti-Irish?
Goodnight, Guest.

You are right, clogger, the question was exactly that.

The sad spectacle, from where I sit is the wriggling that people get up to when asked to defend something which they have no real need to defend: the term 'British', being a case in point.

Wrapped up in all of that term lie some fairly mind-boggling connotations, which cut to the very heart of ones sense of justice, and identity.

We have isolated the term 'British' and asked people to look at it carefully.
Once we peel that layer off the onion, we may begin to reach an understanding whereby we all profit; intellectually and philosophically, and where there'll be no further 'whataboutery' on the threads of the Mudcat.

We're trying to get people to face their demons also.

But that can take a little longer, and is of no consequence to me, anyway, in the long run.

What you have witnessed today on this thread is another bit of the skin of that onion getting prized loose