Recent content by Béarla Feirste

No sectarian shit? Really? So the 36th Ulster Division wasn’t formed directly from the illegal UVF? So the riots and shootings in Glasgow, smashing of the van etc, in the 20s never happened? Tell me, if there were so many willing recruits, why did the British Government introduce conscription...

soppy

North and South didn’t exist in WW1. Another example of the sick sentimentalisation of horrific war. Let’s get all teary eyed over North and South fighting together in the trenches - load of crap. Let’s try and rid this world of war instead of getting all sloppy about it.

The vast majority of soldiers in WW1 were conscripts. They had little choice but to go there. WW2 was not fought against fascism otherwise the Allies would have dismantled fascism in Spain and restored the democratically elected government that Hitler’s ally Franco had overthrown. The poppy...

Now that was quite a rant. Let’s look at your accusation of ‘victimhood’. In human history there are those who faired better than others. Many of us humans have experience and historical experience through knowledge of our ancestors of being the victims, real victims, of empires, States...

Well said, you’ll do me

In some places it might be, in others it isn’t. Bruce Lee was half Caucasian but he chose to identify with Chinese culture and people. Robert De Niro is three quarters Irish but chooses to identify with his one quarter Italian heretage - that’s their choices, not for me to argue with. Unthinking...

I think identity is a bit more complicated than you portray. IMO it’s not as simple as being first generation, second generation or whatever. I know Chinese who have never seen China or whose grandparents have never seen China but they still refer to themselves as Chinese. Now if an MP called...

Politics is everywhere and in every thing; it’s like air, can’t be avoided. In my experience people who say keep politics out are actually saying keep YOUR politics out.

So where does the racism come in?