Racist for the Irish to abuse the British
We read:
"An English pipe fitter who was racially abused and taunted in his Irish workplace has been awarded $30,000 in compensation by an equality tribunal in Dublin. The unnamed man, who worked for an engineering company on a building site in Dublin, claimed that colleagues called him names and frequently ganged up on him to sing Irish rebel songs.
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Irish hatred for the British goes back a long way so I doubt that there would be much popular support for the verdict
9 comments:
$30,000 reward for being antisocial! If the English pipefitter would have been social and sang the songs with them and later had a Guinness with them, a good time could have been had by all. After all, good feelings in a work place can greatly outweigh the money.
The old saying goes that "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it" isn't completely true. This underlying tension between Irish and British, Scot and English, Catholic and Protestant, Shiite and Sunni, Hindu and Muslim, Arab and Jew... is always waiting for an opportunity to "redress the wrongs of the past".
The truth is that those who hold onto the wrongs of the past are doomed to live in a cycle of never ending strife and violence.
No one lives in the past more than the Irish!
That's not true. The Arabs hating the Jews goes back to the Old Testament during the time of Abraham.
but less appropriate for the Irish to keep up their atavistic resentments in the context of today's European Union
My ex brother-in-law Mustapha, born in Cairo (Egypt, not Ohio) a good guy for all that, says a moderate Arab is one whose family holds a personal grudge for only 6 generations.
Underlying all that Irish Blarney about Ah suren Begorrah, céad míle fáilte, etc is a strong bully culture spawned by a cultural insecurity.
I'm not surprised that the Brit lad was singled out for the Hibernian happy slapping.
Sorry Old grey bob "If the English pipefitter would have been social and sang the songs with them and later had a Guinness with them, a good time could have been had by all." is NOT an option in Anglo/Celtic relations.
Just ask any Celtic or ranger supporter.
Funny, I thought Irish and English were the same race.
of course they are the same race and very genetically mixed over the centuries - it's an artificial barrier based on religion and power politics.
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