Analyzing the unfair stigmatization of inner city communities in Dublin as the sources of a shameful night. Debunking the claims of immigration and poverty as the causes.
It is grossly unfair to inner city communities to stigmatise them as the sources of a shameful night in Dublin . One chunk of analytic wreckage is that “this was a reaction to immigration”. Another is “this is about inner city poverty”. It wasn’t and it isn’t. First: there were fascist riots in Dublin long before the city had any substantial population of immigrants.
Ninety years ago, when the city had scarcely a person of colour, or even a foreigner, there were admirers of Mussolini and Hitler out on the streets setting things ablaze and baying for the blood of the enemy
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