“That’s a load, dude. They live in a place where the best they can do is grow sheep (here I’m talking history) and brew a bit other than that it was pretty damn stark.”
My statement was “That’s because Irish nationalism is inward looking, backward looking, and very very selfish.” unquote. How is what you just said and what I said incompatible?
“Meanwhile, they were sitting next door to the British, (you know, the benevolent British, we loved them so very much we positively fell at their feet)...”
They try it on and they certainly will fall at our feet.
“Go here and read about the famine.”
I know all about the famine thank you very much. I know it was a great and horrid tragedy. However, the truth of that does not affect the truth in my statement “That’s because Irish nationalism is inward looking, backward looking, and very very selfish.”
“And before I end my smack down, I want to express my opinion that your comment is just as racist as if I said all black Americans were niggers. (which they are most certainly not, and I beg their forgiveness)”
If you think that “That’s because Irish nationalism is inward looking, backward looking, and very very selfish.” is a RACIST statement, I suggest you go and join the democrat party, where your victim mentatility will fit very well with Messr Sharpton, Jackson et al. That is a statement on a political theory prevalent in Ireland, not a slander on Irish people.
Someone posted that the Irish didn’t like the Brits.
You replied that it was because of nationalism and backward politics.
The first statement was political. Yours was far more general.
Where the hell could the Irish look, except for inward?
To the French or Spanish that would have immediately caused mass slaughter by the incoming British?
Britain is (or at least was) the center of modern law in the modern age. And as many times as we watch Braveheart, Edward the First had alot to do with it.
When you investigate a bit about what actually happened when Britain moved into Scotland, you will learn that the stream of infantry and calvary went North, something like six abreast, for over thirty hours.
That’s what they did to Scotland.
So do you blame Ireland?