Tis, battle lines have been drawn and nobidyis prepared to give a crumb to the opposition, as a neutral bystander I can see merit in both sides of the argument, but mostly bullish nonsense
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Oppression does tend to get historically graded, itâs sort of unavoidable, unless you want to, say, class the oppression Catholics in the North of Ireland suffered as equal to that of the Jews in Europe from 1933-1945
I think we need a scoring system to see who had it worse, the black slaves or the Irish. Maybe something along the volume of displacements, deaths, persecution.
otherwise weâll have some sort of endless mind numbing discussion about a really interesting topic of who had it worse.
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Labane generally is.
I have sid on ignore, heâs an awful cunt and I donât know what he said.
But Labane just came out of nowhere and said what happened to the Irish was worse than what happened to the blacks, that was the start of the grading. Everything thatâs ugly and shit about modern America in Labaneâs post, theyâve turned into the pettiest people.
Then he goes on about how we lost our language and religion etc, as if that didnât happen to the black slaves. I was thinking of taking labane off ignore and heâs just reminded me why I started it.
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Something along the lines of: One missed potato meal for an Irish child = one lynching?
I bet the Irish come out as more oppressed
Most oppressed people EVA
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I miss your long rambling PMs bud
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The net effect of @sidneyâs contributions to TFK have been to convince more people to support white supremacy and Donald Trump than Gemma OâDoherty could ever dream of.
The old âI was pushed into being a Naziâ line 
âIndependent thinkersâ
You have embarrassed yourself again. You freely admit you had a privileged upbringing, but yet feel the pain of all those who have been oppressed in history, as long as they are in faraway places.
Do us all a favor and take a trip to Ballymoe in north Galway to the Lisnabinnia memorial and the site of one of the hundreds of mass graves scattered around Ireland, and apologize on behalf of your English cunt ancestors.
How are you reading my posts if you have me on ignore?
Seems a bit pointless, this ignore function.
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Ya that would end religion would it?
Could one of our resident historians argue the case as to why the treatment of the African American population in the US during slavery (17th through 19th century) was worse than the treatment of Irish people under English occupation for 800 years?
As a neutral in this discussion,I know that you canât deny or hide history for fear of upsetting our p .c. world,Lee etc was a hero for his community at the time,Collins was also ( not mine) but if statues are take down/ hidden what next? Civil war atrocities/ bloody Sunday/ La Mon swept under the rug?
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Depends on your definition of âprivilegedâ, doesnât it, mate?
On a world scale it was, on an Irish scale it certainly wasnât.
I couldnât complain too much about it, however. It was reasonably safe and reasonably happy. It was alright.
As regards the rest of your post, I think youâre just going mad. I think you have oppression jealousy because you were never oppressed but desperately want to have been.
Itâs a fantasy thatâs very common with Brexiteers.
So was Hitler
Ah now Sid FFS ,Lee / Collins,and Adolf canât be in the same discussion
you are Godwins theory
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Iâll be honest and gave to take your good word on that