Lady of colour on now who progressed through to representing Dublin in the Rose of Tralee.
Of course she’s been subject to racist abuse online.
‘How do you feel that those people abusing you will never see you as Irish’
Cuddihy asks.
Shocking question.
Perhaps, but sadly its true.
Yet media across the western world including in this country is hell bent on platforming the people that whip up this racist abuse and not challenging them or it.
It’s why America has Trump and why Britain is getting Farage.
A month ago Liveline uncritically platformed Christopher Duffy. Duffy is the scum of the earth, a Gemma O’Doherty/Justin Barrett level rapey, racist piece of excrement.
If you have a look at his Facebook right now, the first post on it is a re-post by one of the Burkes of Castlebar.
Yet Liveline platformed this cunt and gave him free publicity without doing any due diligence.
That’s not the point.
It legitimises the racist scum.
Who probably are looking for sonewhere to have a nice curry today.
I’m not sure it does. It actually shines a light on their ignorance and racist attitude and allows her comment on it also.
The reality is there’s a very powerful social media and indeed mainstream media-driven mind virus cult of racism, proud ignorance, stupidity, cruelty, whatever you’re having yourself, and no shining a light on it will change it.
It won’t change because shamelessness is the central binding force. You can’t change the mind of somebody who has no ability to feel shame at being a racist, stupid, cruel cunt.
Pat is on now regarding penalties for drink/drug driving and all that.
Pat doesn’t take a drink but is concerned about another dangerous precedent and that is texting while driving - woeful dangerous….
Pat however has a solution but it’ll need legislation. Confiscate the car/van/ lorry or whatever the offender is driving.
For how long asks Kieran…
Forever says Pat….The person fatally injured is dead forever…
Pat has been waiting years to air this on Liveline but he’s gonna take this all the way…
He’s not wrong about the texting to be fair. Cunts staring down at their phones at traffic lights are a right nuisance
Driver etiquette is out of control.
Everyone wants to do a 50 minute journey in 35 minutes now while scrolling through TikTok or sending Snapchats simultaneously.
You’ll be able to do that in a Tesla in 4 years.
Although how a Tesla will manage to negotiate with a silage man on a back road I’m not sure.
Like everyone else, into the fucking ditch with him.
Liveline discussing private maternity services being offered in the public rotunda hospital, which is supposed to be not allowed. The topic is being treated as “choice for women” but is actually about choice for rich women only.
Define rich.
On this context, rich enough to pay for a private consultant led maternity.
Now would be a good time to invoke the “if you ran a supermarket you wouldn’t let a rival supermarket move into your shop” analogy that was laughably trotted out during the Croke Park debate.
In that it would be actually relevant and accurate here.
Why shouldn’t wealth bring more choice?
You should try it some time.
Cause then we’ll turn into something resembling the heath system in the US.And maybe thats the goal here all along.
Private money helps fund and improve the system.
Have you experienced the system in the US ?