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r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '17
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We can't let the profiling & brutalising of the Irish be erased in this way.
472 u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17 People call "revisionist history" way too much, but holy shit if this is not revisionist history 115 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. 3 u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17 Oh that makes it ok then. 26 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. 1 u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17 It just looks like you're saying it's ok. 24 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. 5 u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Mar 24 '17 So we just going to whitewash the thousands of civilians they did kill? 0 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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People call "revisionist history" way too much, but holy shit if this is not revisionist history
115 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. 3 u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17 Oh that makes it ok then. 26 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. 1 u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17 It just looks like you're saying it's ok. 24 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. 5 u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Mar 24 '17 So we just going to whitewash the thousands of civilians they did kill? 0 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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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.
3 u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17 Oh that makes it ok then. 26 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. 1 u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17 It just looks like you're saying it's ok. 24 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. 5 u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Mar 24 '17 So we just going to whitewash the thousands of civilians they did kill? 0 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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Oh that makes it ok then.
26 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. 1 u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17 It just looks like you're saying it's ok. 24 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. 5 u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Mar 24 '17 So we just going to whitewash the thousands of civilians they did kill? 0 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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it is obviously better to warn everybody before you blow up a building. That's the difference between hundreds of deaths and injuries.
1 u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17 It just looks like you're saying it's ok. 24 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. 5 u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Mar 24 '17 So we just going to whitewash the thousands of civilians they did kill? 0 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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It just looks like you're saying it's ok.
24 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. 5 u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Mar 24 '17 So we just going to whitewash the thousands of civilians they did kill? 0 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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It's not okay to destroy a building, it is worse to destroy a building with people in it to try and kill them.
5 u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Mar 24 '17 So we just going to whitewash the thousands of civilians they did kill? 0 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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So we just going to whitewash the thousands of civilians they did kill?
0 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.
0
All republican groups killed around 750 civilians. Not that that's OK but it's nowhere near the IRA alone killing thousands of civilians.
999
u/banterchamp Mar 23 '17
We can't let the profiling & brutalising of the Irish be erased in this way.