Special Rapporteur for action plan against racism announced

All the racists who are crying about it are just keeping her in a job.

Ethnomasochism, white knighting, virtue signalling, countering their own racist feelings or just sowing discord who knows? Maybe a bit of it all.

It is actually quite dangerous to have these "blow ins" capture the public office. I myself am a "blow in" and am literally amazed at how "tolerant" this country is with everyone but the actual people who are born and bred here attempt to tell the Irish how to run their country.

If you go to any of the countries where many of us "blow ins" come from and tell the populace how to run their country I can assure you there would be no "hate speech" laws either to save you from the verbal and possibly (from where I came from) worse onslaught that would come from many of the native population.

Are the Irish blind as to how dangerous this experiment actually is?

There should be no preference given to anyone apart from merit based selection linked to qualification, suitability etc. I have seen how "quota" systems work. Basically whoever outbreeds the other takes over parliament and dictates to the minority who generate the taxes for them to squander.

I hate any forms of racism or intolerance and have experienced it first hand at the hands of an "oppressed" majority and have uprooted my family to escape from it. These "permanent" victims are literally a G-D send for marxist social planners.

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my
study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose
of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform,
but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the
better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being
told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat
the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.
To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself.
One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A
society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine
political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

-Theodore Dalrymple

Yes and it's dangerous when a loud minority start to literally dictate to a silent majority in a country that suffered terrible oppression and discrimination. It rubs people up the wrong way especially when these people can seemingly say and do as they please and you are labelled a "racist" if you have any issue with it. Recently I listened to people from zimbabwae praise the genocidal rantings of the EFF in SA and Mugabes destructive actions in Zim so racism goes both ways yet that is overlooked and needs to change immeadiately to stop any resentment between people.

I've had the misfortune to work with "Dr" Joseph (it was effectively awarded, rather than earned and so garners to respect from me) - and she is deeply entrenched in victimhood.

I am tracing my family tree and showed off two branches going back to the 1800s - I was so happy! "Typical of you people, there's no diversity". In 19th century Ireland ???

She is a grifter pure and simple and whilst I absolutely agree that we could do more to combat racism - of all kinds - she is not the answer.

Only she could argue that although colonised for centuries we still benefitted from slavery merely for being white. A horrific person and shocking to see her near Government.

It was as it goes - horrible, horrible person! She does her country a great disservice! I recall being told in the Guinness Storehouse that the largest consumer of Guinness in the world is Nigeria - there's apparently a huge love for us over there. She is ruining that!

It is backfiring spectacularly in the US - look at this from last year:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65792148

Absolutely nothing his family had, and he worked from scratch. Yet due to their quotas, a black student who may have had a life of wealth and privilege and best prep schools, would get his place.

Treating someone solely by their skin colour - how is that not the very definition of racism ???

I am not familiar with this person at all but from what I've read, she goes out of her way to be offended or find fault with her host country. Was the job advertised? What is it about? Were there a number of candidates?

Of course, racism is wrong and it does exist, but generally by and large people here are chilled and have a live and let live attitude to each other?

Many of us work or have worked with people from different backgrounds and countries. We get along with each other, we slag each other, joke and sometimes disagree. Children whose parents are from different backgrounds go to school and play together. Race is never an issue.

Of course people disagree or argue from time to time. That is human nature.

It's nice to see diversity in our society so the last thing we want is that we're all divided and labelled.

Sorry for long post!