What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

What does this have to do with it?

Youre trying to.find reasons to excuse racist, violent, thugs.

See above, I think the comparison is apt, but i agree we should at least be curious about what they have to say.

I'm Fine with immigration, I wish the government would build or facilitate more house building so more people can realistically aspire to own a home.

I wish the government would act to ensure the lowest paid people were much better paid so they can live a decent standard and not need government assistance.

I wish schools I poorer areas (or more precisely, areas with highest unemployment) were the best in the country try to break the cycles of low paid, unstable work or unemployment. So the people have a genuine way out of the cycle.

f i had to bet, id bet that would have prevented this resentment, anger and ultimately violence and we'd all be better off for it and they wouldn't dive a shyte about immigrants, just like most other people who are doing ok don't worry about immigration.

But I don't know because nobody is even asking the questions. I'm pretty surprised by the hostility to even being curious about what has lead to this violence.

I.don't think the people of Gaza act violently, I think some people in Gaza are part of a terrorist organisation, which does indeed act violently. Hamas, aim to replace the Israeli state with an Islamic Palestinian state, so Israel act in defence of themselves. There is no simple solution.

Your post is simplistic when it comes to issues between Israel and Palestinians. And you make it clear, just which 'side ' You support.

The protesters have shown what their issues are. They are attacking immigrants and Muslims. Not sure how difficult that is to understand. There is no justification for racist violence. None.

In the summary of Gaza, is hammas' violence completely divorced from any genuine grievance and only motivated by a desire to replace isreali state with an Islamic one?

Asking with relevance to the protests/riots. Not wanting to get into Isreal Palestine.

Ok, In the summary of Gaza, is hammas' violence completely divorced from any genuine grievance and only motivated by a desire to replace isreali state with an Islamic one?

I can only take your word for it in Ireland. I know the schools are very different in England. The postcode you live in is very important for both primary school and secondary school.

My office has closed at lunch because there's a protest/gathering/riot planned for this evening. And it's my work that caused me to ask the question.

We sometimes do "lessons learned" reports after something has gone wrong. They describe what happened, try to discover what caused it and work out how to prevent it happening again.

So far I've seen hostility towards even the suggestion of being curious about how we got here. And without knowing that, we can't hope to prevent it happening again.

There's a bit at the end of the movie Burn After Reading where the situation resolves itself and the intelligence director says "so what have we learned here? Don't to it again, I suppose. But fcuked if I know what we did to begin with".

Thought I might find some fun conversations in this about things like "Irish butter and Tayto are massively over rated" but no it's the usual immigration nonsense and debates about the middle east 🤦‍♂️

Lactose Intolerant so I'll take your word on the quality of our butter. They weren't my controversial opinions.

My main one is Carlsberg should be allowed drop the "probably" as it is the best beer in the world.