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Kneecap have very ably described the activities of a rabid English political-media class urging each other on to ever greater acts of calumniation and spitefulness, as a festival of distraction. To avoid reporting on the actual Genocide, these base representatives of Regime ideology must make the perpetrators of the Genocide into victims. And so, once…
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The most important artists in the country, Kneecap, have suffered a coordinated campaign by the footsoldiers of the Late Capitalist order. Their crime is their criticism of the Genocide. Note that this is literally a crime, as it is has been investigated by the security apparatus of the State currently occupying the part of Ireland…
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Macdara is keen to emphasise his agreement with Abbott’s basic point: the racism (or prejudice) suffered by minorities now classified as white, is different in various ways to that experienced by non-white people. This closes nothing down, but is a reasonable starting off point for exploring all the various ways that different groups experience different…
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In any case what interests the present writer is not the article itself, but Abbott’s letter, and strictly speaking it isn’t quite the letter that interests him, but rather the response to it. First, here is the letter itself: Tomiwa Owolade claims that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people all suffer from “racism” (“Racism in Britain…
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Time for another round of Macdara’s favourite game: ancient grudge. In this case it is not so ancient, but highlights an age-old phenomenon: English racism. Let us explore further. Your correspondent’s representative in the theatrically undemocratic electoral system that obtains in the UK is Diane Abbott. He has no idea if Abbott is an effective…
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Macdara has lately been struck by a softening of the aggressive neo-unionism of the Irish Times. On a recent podcast (which he had avoided listening to for a month), he kept on expecting some of the standard inanities or insanities of the Partionist mindset to surface. In fact, it was all quite reasonable, even with…
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The Irish elites do not have much of a plan for anything whatsoever, but the first thing this new Government has moved quickly on is to sign us up to the War Party, the manic multi-headed beast that includes Nato, Russia, the zionazis, Iran, et cetera. Of course it is the Nato branch of the…
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It is pointless to ask, as Macdara did recently, whether the squabble between Zelenskyy and the inhabitants of the grotesque underworld that is the Oval Office, were staging their recent confrontation. Such a question is the mark, your correspondent admits, of an old-fashioned mind. It is not that Trump necessitated that Zelenskyy engage in reality…
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Macdara has been on hiatus, but only on this first day of spring has he been able to reflect fully on the ideological reasons behind his torpor. To recap: the Party of permanent power in Unoccupied Ireland has undertaken a round of negotiations that took far longer than it should have, given that the outline…
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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…