SSCReader
9d ago
most of them tend to have a visceral hatred of English people.
I just don't think that's true. I am an Ulster Scots Northern Irishman and we have many English relatives. Half my extended family moved to England and married English people. Maybe a very mild dislike of Southern posh English people but we get on very well with Northerners.
I've never even met a Protestant Ulsterman who mentioned hating the English. Certainly not a visceral hatred.
The real (Norn) Irony here is that many Northern Irish Catholics call my people immigrants/colonizers/invaders and condemn us for the violent actions of say Lenny Murphy and the like (or Britain in general) while leaning left and thus being more lenient towards the more recent Sudanese immigrant. While my people who are in fact themselves literal violent invaders/colonizers are harsher to the Sudanese, but don't see the same logic also applies to us. If this Sudanese murderer means we should treat Sudanese people differently then Lenny Murphy and the like indicate that Catholics are in fact correct to want us gone/out of power as well. You either have collective guilt/treatment or you don't. Nothing here is driven by logic or rationality.
It's an Ulster-Scots kettle calling the Sudanese pot black (so to speak). While likewise the Catholics are more tolerant of this chap and similar immigrants than of my type and similar immigrants. It's topsy-turvy, all built around tribal lines.
Still this chap is likely to get knifed in prison or have boiling sugar water thrown over him by a wee fella from Antrim sooner or later.
I think you're typical minding here. We celebrate sports very noisily in lots of almost entirely white countries.
Your thesis does not pass the smell test. Maybe for very reserved WASPs or similar but those are far from the only white people.
I have friends I made by randomly hugging and screaming at a rugby match and they've been my best buddies for 25 years.
Watching any European football match from Milan, to Paris, to London, will show you a lot of white people screaming and celebrating.
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