******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. *****************************************************************
Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone ---- Stuart Munckton via Marxism wrot > > > > (I wondered how in the hell that Irish Catholics, the victims of racism, > > could end up as racists themselves. Once you get past the headline, you > > discover that the Protestants are responsible for the bulk of the attacks > > on immigrants.) > > > > It is further evidence of the reaction encouraged by partition. Protestant > sectarianism and its loyalist political expression, encouraged and > bolstered by partition, is not going to stop at just hatred and violence > towards one sector. As always, it is often the poorest Protestants taking > out frustration and anger on those they view as below them. > > Ending partition is not going to end such racism, or sectarianism, but it > would be an important step in removing the key for fostering such reaction, > and undermine the sense that Protestants, however low on the social scale, > have a state that belongs specifically to *them*. The article makes clear that most of the attacks are in Loyalist (i.e. Protestant) aread where right-wing and racist ideas have always been strong. It also mentions that when attacks have occurred in Catholic areas there have been anti-racist demos rather than racist mobs. Einde O'Callaghan _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
