Is Ireland Racist?

Just scanning this thread and two issues for me deserve a comment.

1. Just because we don't have any traction in the political system does not mean racism isn't here. There is the danger that racism only gets defined as direct hate speech like GOD and JWZombie. The PDs and FF were into the racism when they brought in a racist citizenship referendum. Racism happens all the time in Ireland anyway in other ways.
2. "Given the recent history of immigration". That's 30 years now. There are black lads playing for the Irish soccer teams. For me Ireland doesn't have anywhere like the number of immigrants compared to other places I spend time like England, Belgium, France, Germany.

The birth right citizenship referendum passed by over 80%

When Trump suggested the US get rid of their birth right citizenship the usual "orange man bad" outrage was in full voice in this country.

Good catch, I forgot the result. I was disgusted and voted no to that. Jus sanguinis is a racist concept whether Steve Bannon/Donald Trump advocate for it, or whether Michael McDowell and Jackie Healy Rae advocate for it. It is exclusionary to the point of making the thing into a blood test.

That whole thing was an American polling expert hired by FF and the PDs to keep them in Government and do something cheap and nasty to win the support of the 80% least intelligent part of the electorate. Michael McDowell came on morning Ireland a couple of days before and told lies about the experience in maternity hospitals (2 of the Masters of the Maternity hospitals denied having spoken to him or made the points he reflected). The FF machine around here went into NF and BNP levels of targeting, when they knocked on my door they were asking me about if there were a lot of foreigners in the area. I know that it died down after that, but in 2019 didn't the law get changed again, and it didn't need a referendum?

The degree of arrogance in this post is stunning. Just listen to yourself; the ‘least intelligent 80% of the electorate’. At least you’re entirely unambiguous in your contempt for the Irish people.

I consider myself reasonably intelligent. I voted for the birthright citizenship amendment. Our asylum laws were blatantly subverted by women arriving from West Africa, at an advanced stage of pregnancy, to avail of the unintended jus soli citizenship loophole.

The overwhelming majority of the Irish electorate, proved themselves to be eminently sensible, in closing a migration path that was flagrantly abused for more than half a decade. If a similar referendum were conducted today, the result would be even more emphatic.

How should the tone of your post be perceived as, friendly and open to discussion?

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Fuckin hell you are really reaching there aren't you!

That's a question the dunne. It is done to elicit an answer in a discussion. And that question didn't give any indication of my feelings.

Isn’t it a sign of low intelligence to generalize a stat-sig cohort of the human race? Let’s say 20% - 25% of people harbor less than favorable views of other races. Do you honestly think that all of them unanimously suffer from reduced mental capacity? Whilst I don’t agree with their views, I feel confident in asserting that many ‘racists’ are likely to be reasonably intelligent. I made this point earlier in the thread. Racism is not confined to a particular socio-economic or IQ cohort. It’s fairly evenly distributed across the entire population. However, those with higher levels of education are more adept at obfuscating their views. Surely somebody with your towering intellect is capable of understanding this, rather than the simplistic, binary thinking you’ve displayed to date.

So there was no correlation between the astronomical growth in asylum seeking between 1999-2004 and the jus soli citizenship loophole? Equally, it was purely coincidental that the numbers of asylum seekers fell off a cliff after 2005? I believe what the data tells me. The loophole acted as a pull factor for large numbers of dubious characters to land on the shores of this country to initiate spurious asylum claims. After the Irish people voted in overwhelming numbers to rectify that oversight, the stream of asylum applications regressed to the natural mean. I trust the data and the resultant positive outcome for this country. As indeed do 80% of my fellow citizens.

Indeed. That 80% figure is the most resounding referendum result ever delivered by the Irish electorate. It far exceeds the margins by which the SSM and 8th amendment referenda were passed.