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SubjectRe: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother (of england) has died)
FromDavid Flood
Date2002-04-08 22:20 (2002-04-08 21:20)
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"?jevind L?ng" <ojevind.lang@swipnet.se>wrote in message news:ijhs8.391$iB4.1143@nntpserver.swip.net...

?jevind L?ng
AC wrote:

AC
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 13:52:31 +0200, "?jevind L?ng" <ojevind.lang@swipnet.se>wrote:

?jevind L?ng
[snip]

George Bernard Shaw was a Protestant. Though I am quite amazed that

someone

might declare that great writers are no fellow-countrymen of his because they are "the wrong religion". or "have the wrong ancestry".

AC
That, in a nutshell, is Irish history for the last 300 years.

?jevind L?ng
The "wrong religon" or "wrong ancestry" and "we were here first" attitude was the rationale used by the Serbs when they engaged in ethnic cleansing

of

Muslims in Bosnia and of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. It is the rationale used by the Basque ETA as they murder people who are not Basques, or even Basques who happen to disagree with them. That is a tribalistic,

regressive,

utterly unacceptabe attitude.

Not so - it's the very 'tribalism' that's the problem, not the variety of excuse advanced.

For example, the reason advanced by Ulster Scots to justify their colony to themselves was that they 'deserve' Ireland more than the natives; a similar attitude has existed in Israel, South Africa and in the conquest of the New World by the European powers, among others.

And, FYI, I come from a mixed Catholic Gaelic Irish/Protestant Anglo-Irish background, so accusations that I'm some kind of 'Gaelic supremacist' aren't going to get you very far.

D.