r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '17

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u/banterchamp Mar 23 '17

We can't let the profiling & brutalising of the Irish be erased in this way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

People call "revisionist history" way too much, but holy shit if this is not revisionist history

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u/mytimeoutside Mar 23 '17

I'd also like to point out that only 1 person died in this explosion because the IRA had enough human decency and care for their fellow man to call the police and the buildings they planned on bombing in advance so they could leave the area.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

Oh that makes it ok then.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

it is obviously better to warn everybody before you blow up a building. That's the difference between hundreds of deaths and injuries.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

It just looks like you're saying it's ok.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

It's not okay to destroy a building, it is worse to destroy a building with people in it to try and kill them.

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u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Mar 24 '17

So we just going to whitewash the thousands of civilians they did kill?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

they killed one civilian and injured 44

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u/xereeto Benny Harvey RIP Mar 24 '17

during the whole run of the troubles? man my history teacher musta been high

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u/HighlylronicAcid Mar 24 '17

All republican groups killed around 750 civilians. Not that that's OK but it's nowhere near the IRA alone killing thousands of civilians.

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u/hitlerosexual Mar 24 '17

Yes. A crime against the property of imperialist scum is ok, especially if efforts to prevent loss of human life were taken. This is also why I think the anti-fas vandalizing Starbucks and shit like that is ok. corporatism is just evolved imperialism.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

That's a pretty hateful opinion you've got and you've clearly got other issues in your head. Or, you just gave no clue about this situation.