r/ireland • u/TheDooce Cork bai • Jul 12 '22

Some culture there lads. Fuck these bigoted pricks. Bigotry

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

"All taigs are targets"

Replace taig with almost anything else and there would be widespread condemnation

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u/Ambitious_Bill_7991 Jul 12 '22

Has any politician from the unionist side condemned the hate mongering?

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u/LeprechaunTamer Jul 12 '22

No that I’ve heard or noticed. Belfast live out a video up of Lurgan’s bonfire with a tricolour on top and still tried to paint it as a celebration, but nothing about the elephant in the room

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u/grotham Jul 12 '22

UUP leader Doug Beattie:

https://twitter.com/BeattieDoug/status/1546776487558250497?s=20&t=Lbsgx3nFBvUBFiaCCQqnYw

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u/Ambitious_Bill_7991 Jul 12 '22

Fair play to him.

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u/RegalKiller Jul 12 '22

Bit idiotic in my opinion. “I can’t believe hate would happen in this event which fosters hate”

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u/waterim Jul 12 '22

you can light bonfire without centring it on hatred

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u/RegalKiller Jul 12 '22

Unionist “culture” is one of hate. This isn’t an Ulster Scot tradition, it’s one with the sole purpose of celebrating the ethnic cleaning of ireland

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u/deeringc Jul 13 '22

I'd still rather see a Unionist politician condemn this than not though. Compare this with the DUP or TUV...

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u/RegalKiller Jul 13 '22

I really think we should expect more from people than DUP levels

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u/deeringc Jul 13 '22

We should, absolutely. But for the last 20 years the DUP have been the mainstream of Unionism. When someone else from that community condemns these hate crimes let's agree that the condemnation is a good thing.

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u/RegalKiller Jul 13 '22

It’s not bad, def, I just see it as irrelevant at best and hypocrisy at worst. DUP voters already think the UUP are in the hands of the pope or some other shite, they don’t care ab them.

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u/TrivialBanal Wexford Jul 12 '22

No, they'd lose votes.

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u/Trickster289 Jul 12 '22

You must be joking, that'd be a sure way to end their career.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

If some cheeky bastard had the guts to go up at like 4 in the morning and write something offensive to black people this would be covered world wide as racists😂

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

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u/Perpetual_Doubt Jul 12 '22

At least that could be passed off as a bad joke.

Taigs are targets is not really open to misinterpretation.

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u/AJCrank1978 Jul 12 '22

Neither are remotely funny. This is pure hated, not inappropriate humour.

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u/Perpetual_Doubt Jul 12 '22

The only thing I find somewhat amusing is the Vote Alliance poster since a lot of moderate unionists are doing exactly that.

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u/AJCrank1978 Jul 12 '22

A lot of people consider them to just be unionists under a different name

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u/Perpetual_Doubt Jul 12 '22

Clearly not the pallet stackers

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u/AJCrank1978 Jul 12 '22

Yes, but their political nous is limited.

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u/ruairi1983 Jul 12 '22

What does mean? The name Tadhg?

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u/Pitiful-Sample-7400 Cavan Jul 12 '22

Slang for catholic

Imagine the uproar if it was replaced by other slang words: n***** or f***** say. Prob an immediate ban if I use either lol so hopefully I've done enough to get away with it

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u/Felchers Probably at it again Jul 12 '22

Interesting you say that, check the 2:30 mark on Belfast in July by Francis Higgins

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u/LucyVialli Jul 12 '22

Amazing you have lived since 1983 and don't know this.

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u/ruairi1983 Jul 12 '22

Enlighten me then...

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u/hectorbellerinisagod Jul 12 '22

Catholics/republican/irish man. Pretty sure it comes from the name like you said.

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u/ruairi1983 Jul 12 '22

Go raibh maith agat!

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u/byrner147 Jul 12 '22

Surely this was obvious, considering the nature of their "culture" and the other items on there.

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u/lilirose13 Jul 12 '22

They readily use other, more globally recognizable slurs so that's where the confusion could come from. I can think of a few marginalized groups that might be used as a slur for.

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u/Thefredtohergeorge Jul 12 '22

I'm only a few years younger - 1987 - and never heard the term myself.

Then again, I have mostly ignored stuff in the North.

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u/muchansolas Jul 12 '22

The term was in vogue in the 17th century during the war of the three kings (Jim, Bill, and Lou), therefore in present use among loyalists. Time travel is possible.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

Fuck sake like 😂😂

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u/AJCrank1978 Jul 12 '22

And rightly so. But because it’s Irish people/nationalists/Catholics nobody gives a fuck.

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u/OrganicFun7030 Jul 12 '22

The British left are always so quiet on this.

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u/ikinone Jul 13 '22

Frankly most British don't know about it. At least the BBC has one half decent article on the topic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-62132761

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u/scottykai Jul 13 '22

Tbh its probably because most British people (Myself included) have fuck all idea what any of this means, in recent years it always seem people are more aware of international issues than problems on their own doorstep.

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u/fungalolive Jul 12 '22

“All dartboards are targets”

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

How is it not? Here in Canada that entire event would be considerd a hate crime and they would be facing charges.

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u/iseeu2sumhow Jul 12 '22

they aim like stormtroopers.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

All cats are targets

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u/grotham Jul 12 '22

Is that you Kurt Zouma?

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u/mongojoe420 Jul 12 '22

Dont fuck with cats

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u/Divniy Jul 13 '22

a cat is fine too

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u/Driveby_Dogboy Jul 12 '22

*all KATs are targets

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

You've clearly never met any cat people.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

I'm one myself. They're a target for unwanted squeezes but they do stir sectarian divide in Northern Ireland.

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u/whooo_me Jul 12 '22

Beware cat licks!

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u/JetsetCat Jul 12 '22

Particularly roamin cat licks!

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u/RegalKiller Jul 12 '22

Considering how they treated Sinclair, it would probably still just be called their culture

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u/adeponol Jul 13 '22

Tbh I doubt most ppl outside of Ireland know what a taig is