The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #160877   Message #3820926
Posted By: Jim Carroll
16-Nov-16 - 07:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: No poppies for me
Subject: RE: BS: No poppies for me
Incidentaly
Your crass attempts to use semantics backfires when you actually examine how the Eater Rising was handled py the media, the establishment and the population as a whole   
Apart from the fact that the Taoiseach does not speak for the people here or represent their views as a whole, there in no reason why a historical event cannot be commemorated and celebrated - both happened here - they are not contradictory terms.
Ireland celebrated the Rising as marking the first steps in breaking free of eight centuries of foreign influence.
The fact that it did so with dignity and without recrimination says much for the Irish people and gives the lie to your and Keith's description of them as a brainwashed, hate filled and gullible bunch of morons, incapable of knowing what is best for their own country.
Your primeval attitude to ours and others history is not just confined to a jingoism that has long been an object of ridicule, even in Britain, but it also reflects your Xenophobic attitude towards foreigners, (particularly those who were unfortunate enough to be part of the predatory Empire).
Such attitudes gave us Brexit and have just foisted an openly Fascist American President onto the world
You keep the best of company.
Jim Carroll