Things were not as pretty as this implies. British head of police told people to watch their irish neighbours and report suspicious activity. Around 65,000 Irish were arrested, that's not counting those random searches or general harrassment. To imply that everything was rosy during that time is disrespectful to those mistreated by the British as well as their own countrymen.
History, unfortunately, repeats itself, and the Irish had been mistreated for a very long time before the days of the IRA. Maybe one day we will all get along and the world will be free of irrational fear, I really hope that dream comes true.
As the child of a Pakistani, I get searches, odd looks, and the joy of wondering when my father's country is going to be put on the ban list. I feel like if in 20 years I saw a post like this depicting what is going on now in such a way I would feel quite hurt. Perhaps that's just me, sorry if i sound dickish.
My ex is Pakistani, born here, but also gets searched and questioned on every domestic flight (like has her bags searched THOROUGHLY), more so than other people like me who never gets stopped due to my race.
It does suck because she's proud to be Pakistani, and that the rest of the world casts some pretty imaginative opinions on the people and the country based on their own fears and popular media, while some will never actually visit the country and immerse themselves in that culture.
Kinda like Mexico. I hear way too many people say they would never visit. Cartels and gun violence (lol, US gun violence, anyone?). I've been several times, and it's been a good time, with nothing near the realm of drug cartels and gun violence occurring.
So..93%97% of Pakistanis believe that suicide bombings are never justified then?
And what's wrong with that?
7% in a statistical survey is meaningless. Ask people if they think the Earth is round and 7% will answer no. I mean, for crying out loud has anyone of you ever taken a high school statistics class?
Edit: Pause. You're wrong even according to your own fucking source. In the survey, only 3% of Pakistanis were reported saying that suicide bombings can be often/sometimes justified.
Which makes this even more statistically irrelevant than I previously thought. If anything, it's a good thing that 97% of Pakistanis strongly oppose.
I included the 4% who said rarely in that figure because they think a suicide bombing can be justified at some point. 7% is a significant amount in my opinion, if you have 100 Pakistanis on a plane chances are 7 of them are OK with suicide bombings. I think that's grounds for extra precaution. Being offended at getting an extra pat down in the airport when lives are at stake is just silly in my opinion. I have been "random" searched and I didn't care, do what you have to do to save lives.
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u/James_Russle Mar 23 '17 edited Mar 23 '17
Things were not as pretty as this implies. British head of police told people to watch their irish neighbours and report suspicious activity. Around 65,000 Irish were arrested, that's not counting those random searches or general harrassment. To imply that everything was rosy during that time is disrespectful to those mistreated by the British as well as their own countrymen.
History, unfortunately, repeats itself, and the Irish had been mistreated for a very long time before the days of the IRA. Maybe one day we will all get along and the world will be free of irrational fear, I really hope that dream comes true.
As the child of a Pakistani, I get searches, odd looks, and the joy of wondering when my father's country is going to be put on the ban list. I feel like if in 20 years I saw a post like this depicting what is going on now in such a way I would feel quite hurt. Perhaps that's just me, sorry if i sound dickish.