Why anti-English songs are funny and ant-gay, black, semetic, etc. songs are not. Are English people currently being shot to death for their religon, skin-color or sexual orientation? Is there a civil war involving English versus someone else currently causing massive fatalities? Are English people denied legal marrige and called evil by multiple religons? Have English people been denied equal rights and freedom for 400+ years? Are English places of worship regularly bombed or defaced? Are there colleges that spout hatred of the English, and have the support of large governments? Is the clergy of the Church of England regularly killed or imprisoned in various countries? The answer to most, if not all of the above questions is no. If the 800 year long bloody, tragic history of England in Ireland can be reduced to history books, old stories, songs and jokes, than we will have achieved something great. Even if those songs don't carry the best feeling towards England, it's better to sing with a smile than shoot with a smile. Songs of hatred should be left in histoy's garbage bin. Songs of humor should remain.