Ireland
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III The Liberal Media has not been shy about expressing its disappointment that the Far Right has had such a poor showing. The Irish Times podcast the day after the election was titled first counts trickle in and anti-immigration candidates falter. In fact the exit poll that that paper had co-commissioned had already shown that…
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I God knows there was nothing to cover in the campaign itself. Granted, An Taoiseach being caught out as a rude and cranky rightwinger was good, but who didn’t already believe that to be the case? It was an underwhelming few weeks, a dull end to a shoddy Government that had not a single accomplishment.…
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I The English language is a rented tool; this could be viewed as a problem, as the Irish elite know that they can be well understood if anyone elsewhere is paying any attention. In fact they have turned this situation into an opportunity, acting at all times to appease the imagined observer in London, New…
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They insist on their unformed cognitive abilities, making a show of being stuck in the gap between cause and effect, demonstrating their existence in a continual now in which the past cannot be linked to anything taking place, or anything to be anticipated. So anticolonial violence is described as an explosion of inexplicable hatred and…
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Their unfinished, unfinishable status renders them stupid, lazy, fearful. The best recent example the present writer has come across was a settler whining that the tricolour of the Republic has green and orange on it (representing Catholics and Protestants), but that these colours are separate. Now, as everyone in the country knows, they are separated…
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Of course in Palestine, the settlers are still in the early phase of their aggression and openly admit to their status as invaders. For some settlers there is the ideology of manifest destiny, whereby the land is there for the taking, and they prove by their colonial efforts that they are the ones who deserve…
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Macdara has recently argued that settler colonists are ontologically reduced, and he thinks the point is worth expanding upon. And just as settlers themselves link every trivial detail of their experience to the larger-scale picture, that is, their status as invaders and occupiers, your correspondent will similarly zoom between the small details of everyday life…
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It is the great hope of this nearly hopeless citizen that Reunification will provide an opportunity not to shore up privilege in our country but to break it down. A loud and troublesome bloc of settler colonists sitting in Dáil Éireann is anathema to the Partionist Party of the current twenty-six county State. This is…
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IV The differences between Irish and Scottish attitudes to the Union are evident in many ways, but it is a source of constant disappointment to the present writer that Scottish politics has rejected any and every means available to an anticolonial movement to succeed in its aims. Why not take the Irish case as a…
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I One of the greatest idiocies of the Late Capitalist democratic-imperialist state is that there can be such a thing as an illegal referendum, when it comes to nations within the state wanting to leave it. It seems to the present correspondent that even in an authoritarian state, it would be foolish for such a…