Irish racism, Ctd "incredibly dehumanising"

Implying Northern Ireland is a colony is incredibly dangerous rhetoric, usually restricted to the ethno-fascist fringes of republicanism.
— Newton Emerson (@NewtonEmerson) March 20, 2014

@ChristopherOCon @AlexKane221b If every transfer of population in the past 500 years makes a place a colony, almost every place is a colony
— Newton Emerson (@NewtonEmerson) March 20, 2014

'Colonists' get de-colonised. That's clearly still the dream for some.
— Newton Emerson (@NewtonEmerson) March 20, 2014

 As I said:

""[Britain]" is not in Ireland. There is no occupation. This language of "England Out" and British occupation is incredibly dehumanising. There are people, like me, who wish to remain in the Union with great Britain. As John McCallister said: "I am no settler. No colonist." I am one of 800,000 citizens who want "England [in]". This language is tremendously dehumanising. This the sort of debasing language which allowed the IRA to murder innocent civilians and serving officers. As Tom  

Hartley, Sinn Féin strategist, said:

"In a way we made them [Unionists] a non-people... We didn't even see them as part of the problem, never mind as being part of the solution."

Irish racism, Ctd

Truth is, Haass was forced on unionism. Robinson no more invited him in than I invited in the Planters. Copeland is at least honest about it
— Squinter (@squinteratn) December 24, 2013

@EamonnMallie No we stand up and boot the planters back to Scotland were they belong!
— Clint Derry (@clintderry) July 18, 2013

Hard-line Irish nationalists continue to have the same demented obsession with the "Protestant planter" as far-right racist xenophobes that exist in England, Greece, France and right across Europe. They blame them for a political situation they don't like and want to utterly extinquish this genetic 'race' from Ireland. The Protestant planter did not invade and conquer Ireland. There were given farming land by the English Crown, just as the Jews were given land by nations in Europe. They are no different from the odious Bosnian Serb ethnic cleanser who believes that their ethnically unpure, politically uncomfortable neighbouring population should be 'sent back where they came from'.

The tweets above are See the Irish Tribesman blog here for an example of explicit racism and xenophobia. Here's an example:

"British invaders Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar were shot dead at Massereene Army base, Antrim. Apparently the Real IRA have claimed responsibility for eliminating these tools of British colonial rule."

And according to a post here, I'm a "British colonial student". My post here on Orwell touches on the racist leanings of celtic nationalism. George Orwell said:

"Its motive force is a belief in the past and future greatness of the Celtic peoples, and it has a strong tinge of racialism. The Celt is supposed to be spiritually superior to the Saxon — simpler, more creative, less vulgar, less snobbish, etc."

Racism is intimately linked with fanatical nationalism. In 'Du Principe federatif (1863) Proudhon said that nationalism was evil in itself, and that it was 'the product of politics rather than nature'. He further said that nationalism leads inevitably to war, compromises personal liberties and reinforces the dictatorial powers of the state.

Conor Cruise O'Brien maintained that: "Nationalism everywhere tends to be xenophobic."

My previous post in the Irish Racism series with Newton Emerson here and on a racist tweet here. My blog post on Arthur Griffiths, the founder of Sinn Fein, who was a racist here. My blog post for The Huffington Post on the racism I've experienced as a cultural Protestant in Ireland here. Incidentally a university report has found the 60% of foreigners in Ireland have experienced racism. More on that in The Irish Independent here. 

Irish racism, Ctd

Newton Emerson wrote in the Irish Times of Saturday November 16 2013:

"The supposed republican principles of the anti-agreement 1916 Societies are somewhat underaxsmined by the language of their latest recruitment drive, which is replete with sectarian references to "planters", "colonialism" and "occupation"."

Newton Emerson continued, and asked a critical question:

"One of the mysteries of Irish politics is why, unlike in the rest of Europe, people who speak like this are not immediately recognised as ethnic fascists."

See my previous posts on Irish racism here and here.