What are your views on Multiculturalism in Ireland? - Threadbanned User List in OP

You and questions you know you daren't try to answer...

... because you don't want to test your faith too hard with the answers. If they're honest ones. And pigs may get clearance from air traffic control. And I thought you had posted all these oh so cogent arguments in favour of your cause? Though it's so much easier to follow the catechism, hope for blind racism and post happy clappy snippets of your politic. Well it makes people feel good they're getting one over on the fascists with a sideorder of smug common to the faithful of any credo. But no honest answers.

I dunno why you're engaging tbh Klaz. Going on the evidence in black and white that poster wouldn't know a good faith argument if it fell on them from space wearing a Good Faith tee shirt on International Good Faith Day, screaming Good Faith! all the way down from orbit. Their recent posts are thunderingly banal longhand for "Because of your knotty questions I can't answer, you smell, and you live in a basement. Childless. And you're not a real professor(even though you never claimed you were)", because when going beyond bumper sticker "diversity is our strength" and having to defend it and having to think about it to do so, that's literally all they have.

Seeing as China has been brought up, there's an old Chinese proverb that fits: He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument. On that basis alone - and I must say I continue to be surprised given the hold this Absolute Truth of multiculturalism has with many* - we could have wrapped this thread up a half dozen pages in and declared the stronger argument with ease.

*If this thread had been titled: "What are your views on equality of women in Ireland", "What are your views on equality of Gay people in Ireland", "What are your views on the right for Choice in Ireland" or indeed: "What are your views on racism in Ireland" there would have been far more reasoned arguments on the "yay" side and it wouldn't be the "nays" that would come within an asses roar of carrying the day.

It seems to be one of the very few sociopolitical subjects that's essentially out of bounds for acceptable public debate. Over the years since the clergy lost their power we've debated damned near everything and publicly too. Divorce was one, equal rights for women another and both were early out of the gate and in play even when cassocks were running the show. The rights of Gay people, SSM, Choice, all got and get their fair share of public back and forth. Today the Trans debate is out in the open with much back and forth, yays and nays and fecked if I knows. In each case things got heated, but debate was had and in most cases referendums came along and gauged and set the scene for Ireland going forward. Yet with the largest demographic and cultural shift in post independence Ireland it's remarkable how little it's been and being debated. More, it's essentially out of bounds.

Joining the Common Market and growing with the EU that followed, both debated and voted upon has had and continues to have widespread support among the electorate and that of course came with free movements of EU citizens, but of extra EU migration little has been spoken of it, beyond it's always a positive. One vote was had on that matter and the result was crystal clear, yet since that result there have been efforts by some in our political and NGO class to roll that back, something unthinkable save for a minority of cranks with the SSM/Repeal votes.