Black Lives Matter protest in Dublin

vg88

There's two protest in Dublin, 12th and 16th this month.

Anti-Racism Network Ireland and MASI are calling this demo to stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement opposing racialised violence and discrimination against Black people.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1241531385897338/?active_tab=highlights

Anyone else think this is a load of ****e or am I the only one?

Bored_lad

Is this to remember all the black people brutally gunned down by the guards every year?

razorblunt

Will they also be covering black on black crime?

BoJack Horseman

They say one you protest for a black cause, protesting for another cause again just isn't as good.

darkpagandeath

Can we have a loot off to show solidarity as well ? nothing shows how well you are into the cause than a 52" lcd tv.

Keplar240B

mental this is just far-left communist agitation.

darkpagandeath

I wonder if our lost in Egypt boyos lot will try take it over ?

B.A._Baracus

So they will be protesting about what happened in another country right?

RayM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

So they will be protesting about what happened in another country right?

Showing solidarity.

armaghlad

I'd have thought Irish people would sympathise with innocent civilians being shot dead by armed police but clearly some on here have short/selective memories...

darkpagandeath

armaghlad wrote: »

I'd have thought Irish people would sympathise with innocent civilians being shot dead by armed police but clearly some on here have short/selective memories...

When did this happen ?

RayM

armaghlad wrote: »

I'd have thought Irish people would sympathise with innocent civilians being shot dead by armed police

Not when the innocent civilians are black...

Subcomandante Marcos

darkpagandeath wrote: »

When did this happen ?

There's a bit of a long history of it on this little island.

darkpagandeath

RayM wrote: »

Not when the innocent civilians are black...

More whites are shot though.

darkpagandeath

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

There's a bit of a long history of it on this little island.

You mean in another country were living in the republic ?

Jimbob1977

darkpagandeath wrote: »

When did this happen ?

I think he's alluding to the Northern Ireland conflict and the treatment of Nationalists by the RUC and British Army (Bloody Sunday)

Guy:Incognito

RayM wrote: »

Showing solidarity.

With American black people though yeah? We can still keep killing the ones on Africa right?

batistuta9

RayM wrote: »

Showing solidarity.

Aren't the Irish the blacks of Europe, surprised we haven't sent a few ra men over to help train them :pac:

timthumbni

armaghlad wrote: »

I'd have thought Irish people would sympathise with innocent civilians being shot dead by armed police but clearly some on here have short/selective memories...

Awwwwhh ffs. Enjoy your march..........

Gatling

But what about the 5 innocent heifers that were riddled by state forces the other day .

Who's marching in solidarity with the mooing 5.


#heifersmattertonotjustforsundaydinner

vg88

Does anyone think they are idiots for picking the 12th which is the most anti-Irish day on the island? Or they just want to be ironic.

Subcomandante Marcos

darkpagandeath wrote: »

You mean in another country were living in the republic ?

In Ireland, North and south.

The_Valeyard

RayM wrote: »

Not when the innocent civilians are black...

That is just a ridiculous post.

darkpagandeath

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

In Ireland, North and south.

That makes no sense Republic of Ireland is not in the UK. When have people been shot in the republic by said police willy nilly ?

BoJack Horseman

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

We can still keep killing the ones on Africa right?

You still doing that?

Hobby's a hobby I guess!

timthumbni

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

In Ireland, North and south.

Ireland, as in the ancient island now divided into 2 separate countries. Yes that's the one.

darkpagandeath

timthumbni wrote: »

Ireland, as in the ancient island now divided into 2 separate countries. Yes that's the one.

Using their logic the eastern European countries are still part of the USSR

timthumbni

As for the Blm march no doubt it will be the usual student grant types on it. The last time I was in Dublin there must have been an anti Israeli March on as a few student types got on the bus with Palestinian flags chanting plo...plo

I could hardly stop laughing...

lukesmom

It's not our fight so why are idiots marching? We have enough to be opposed to in Ireland without jumping on every bloody bandwagon. How many black people were gunned down by an garda siochana this year? None.. so go away with your March. Empty vessels and all that.

Subcomandante Marcos

darkpagandeath wrote: »

That makes no sense Republic of Ireland is not in the UK. When have people been shot in the republic by said police willy nilly ?

In Ireland people have been shot by policy plenty of times. I never said recently.

Good job trying to be pedantic though, bravo.

timthumbni

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

In Ireland people have been shot by policy plenty of times. I never said recently.

Is it necause they were black????? (Not said in an Ali g accent)

Guy:Incognito

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

You still doing that?

Hobby's a hobby I guess!

It's not summer without a human hunting safari. Till we stick a fence around Leitrim and fill it with undesirables I'll have to keep taking my money abroad.

endacl

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

With American black people though yeah? We can still keep killing the ones on Africa right?

"Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once and say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud."

:pac:

Subcomandante Marcos

No, it was because they were Irish. So as a nation we have a national history which can empathise with minorities being systematically targeted by armed agents of the state.

But sure it's more important to pretend racism isn't still a real problem and Ireland never experienced violent oppression and indiscriminate attacks from armed occupiers because "feck them leftie eejits and their notions".

Showing solidarity isn't protesting.

When the LGBT community in Ireland held shows of solidarity after the shooting in Orlando were you up in arms about that too?

darkpagandeath

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

No, it was because they were Irish. So as a nation we have a national history which can empathise with minorities being systematically targeted by armed agents of the state.

But sure it's more important to pretend racism isn't still a real problem and Ireland never experienced violent oppression and indiscriminate attacks from armed occupiers because "feck them leftie eejits and their notions".

Showing solidarity isn't protesting.

When the LGBT community in Ireland held shows of solidarity after the shooting in Orlando were you up in arms about that too?

No we don't.

wp_rathead

darkpagandeath wrote: »

More whites are shot though.

You are correct, 50.4% of people killed by police white while 47.6% were minorities (2% unknown)
What you are forgetting/choose to ignore is that 62.6% of population is White while 37.4% are Minorities - so proportionally the number of minorities killed is very high
Especially when you look at unarmed people killed by police, it goes to 34.3% White and 62.7% Minorities (3% unknown)

youreadthat

Quite a large section of Irish and British black people seem to take 90% of their cultural influences from America.

Subcomandante Marcos

youreadthat wrote: »

Quite a large section of Irish and British black people seem to take 90% of their cultural influences from America.

Fixed your post there.

Samaris

youreadthat wrote: »

Quite a large section of Irish and British black people seem to take 90% of their cultural influences from America.

Same with whites too though. We all get bombarded with American culture to the point that we seem to end up importing what they consider offensive based on their own history and replacing our own cultural mores with it - case in point, a KFC ad in Australia that caused outrage in the US, but to the Australians it was perfectly innocuous, not having had the same history as the US did.

Still got pulled though.

suicide_circus

If it weren't for protests like this, people would think it's open season for genocide on black people.

dissed doc

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

No, it was because they were Irish. So as a nation we have a national history which can empathise with minorities being systematically targeted by armed agents of the state.

No we don't. And you don't get to decide it either. If anything, it is the history of the majority that was systematically targeted on the island of Ireland that has a historical precedent. Irish people in Ireland are not a minority group.

It is mind boggling the social justice masturbation going on. It must be like watching porn to you people. Any black person or gay person killed even if the ethnicity or sexuality has nothing to do with it, is straight into the spank bank.

Plenty of oppression of local Irish people going on by people like you. WHy not show solidarity with them? Or is because they are white that you won't? Why be so racist?

darkpagandeath

wp_rathead wrote: »

You are correct, 50.4% of people killed by police white while 47.6% were minorities (2% unknown)
What you are forgetting/choose to ignore is that 62.6% of population is White while 37.4% are Minorities - so proportionally the number of minorities killed is very high
Especially when you look at unarmed people killed by police, it goes to 34.3% White and 62.7% Minorities (3% unknown)

And are you going to leave out the Crime figures ? Especially Violent crimes. You can use statistics to prove anything.

Subcomandante Marcos

dissed doc wrote: »

No we don't. And you don't get to decide it either. If anything, it is the history of the majority that was systematically targeted on the island of Ireland that has a historical precedent. Irish people in Ireland are not a minority group.

It is mind boggling the social justice masturbation going on. It must be like watching porn to you people. Any black person or gay person killed even if the ethnicity or sexuality has nothing to do with it, is straight into the spank bank.

Plenty of oppression of local Irish people going on by people like you. WHy not show solidarity with them? Or is because they are white that you won't? Why be so racist?

"People like you"?

:rolleyes:

padd b1975

I'll be amazed if Coppinger doesn't rock up at this with her menagerie of claim and complain whingers and hijack the front row with a massive AAA banner.

iguana

lukesmom wrote: »

How many black people were gunned down by an garda siochana this year? None..

I have nothing to do with this march and won't be attending but the organisers aren't claiming that the Gardaí have killed any black people. It's being organised by and for people who want to make a demonstration of support for black people in the US. It's the same as when people here demonstrated against apartheid South Africa in the 80s. Nothing to do with us here doesn't mean that something isn't wrong and that people in other countries should ignore it.

darkpagandeath

padd b1975 wrote: »

I'll be amazed if Coppinger doesn't rock up at this with her menagerie of claim and complain whingers and hijack the front row with a massive AAA banner.

Gollum, wallace and gromit guaranteed. Prob old moan as well but probably not counting smart phones this time.

darkpagandeath

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Using their logic the eastern European countries are still part of the USSR

We weren't different countries though, our Constitution enshrined that we had a territorial claim over the 6 counties.

1. The national territory consists of the whole island of Ireland, its islands and the territorial seas.

2. Pending the re-integration of the national territory, and without prejudice to the right of the Parliament and Government established by this Constitution to exercise jurisdiction over the whole of that territory, the laws enacted by that Parliament shall have the like area and extent of application as the laws of Saorstát Éireann and the like extra-territorial effect.

timthumbni

Deleted User wrote: »

We weren't different countries though, our Constitution enshrined that we had a territorial claim over the 6 counties.

Not any more you don't....

looksee

Deleted User wrote: »

We weren't different countries though, our Constitution enshrined that we had a territorial claim over the 6 counties.

You don't see any problems with that argument? :pac:

steddyeddy

timthumbni wrote: »

Is it necause they were black????? (Not said in an Ali g accent)

No. It's in relation to the fact that Irish were more likely to be shot for being Irish and in America Black people are targetted by the police. Solidarity between victims of racism.

timthumbni

steddyeddy wrote: »

No. It's in relation to the fact that Irish were more likely to be shot for being Irish and in America Black people are targetted by the police. Solidarity between victims of racism.

What????