Queens Young Unionists Statement in response to the Campaign for Irish dual-language signage on campus
by sarcasticunicorn828
Queens Young Unionists Statement in response to the Campaign for Irish dual-language signage on campus
by sarcasticunicorn828
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I’d say they do some ridin.
I wonder what percentage of the student body these represent. Surely most are engaged in traditional student pastimes like getting wasted on Bucky and riding anything that moves.
Lmao as if they care about women and their periods
Do they ever mention Ulster Scots at any other time?
The uni is in Ireland. People need to fuck up
“They should spend the money on…”
***Hastily checks notes***
“…literally anything else”
-Fragile Unionism
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I’m not even going to bother reading it. Just come out and say you hate taigs.
Obviously it’s just bigotry trying to disguise itself as a reasoned position but I’m sick of this shit always trying to say anything to do with Irishness is an unnecessary expense, even if it is so what, think of it as reparations for the legitimately obscene harm done to the Irish community over the past how ever many hundred years
The fragility is unreal, imagine being age 18-21 at university and spending your time like this.
Would love to see them issue the statement in Ulster Scots
It’s hilarious how a few signs in Irish have unionists so rattled, on skates.
“Neutral and shared space” yet moans about the other language on this island getting signs up. Fucking clowns.
>If there is money to be spent, it should go to services which support students, such as expanding the accessibility of free period products across all schools. There are more pressing issues than cultural passion projects, such as the recent rollout of free period products across campuses.
the young Unionists doubling down on free period products
why are they even campaigning for Ulster Scots support when you know the money & campaigning could be better spent on free period products …
I’ve spent the past few weeks in northern Italy which borders Austria.
Literally everything is in Italian and German. Even through in official Italian territory.
Why in the fuck are some people so backward.
Imagine wasting the best years of your life being like this
So members of this group have never been affected by the troubles nor have they experienced the supposed weaponising of the language. So are they using 2nd hand excuses to demonstrate their bigotry and intolerance?
My favourite is when Ulster-Scot’s gets called a language. Silly heure
Fragile, ignorant, bigoted, hate filled cunts.
Imagine being afraid of a bilingual sign. Pathetic.
So much insecurity, hypocrisy and self contradictory shite it one statement it’s barely worth addressing but the last line in particular stands out –
***”where all linguistic communities are heard and considered, and not just one language is given precedence over the other”***
I know Unionists don’t really do irony or self reflection but this is quite the conclusion to a statement written by people howling in barely concealed sectarian revulsion at the prospect that another language might be included alongside English.
Does my heart good to see the next generation of political Unionism is as strong, confident and capable as they have been for the last fifty odd years. Just keep alienating the taigs lads. It’s going great. Going great. Great.
I absolutely hate that this bulletin uses language like, “neutral and shared space”, to advocate against the posting of a language literally fighting for its existence and future.
For fucks sakes even in Nova Scotia, Canada they have signage in Gaelic and English despite there being maybe around 5,000 speakers who all also speak English.
We should celebrate indigenous languages. Not try to suppress them, and especially not try to suppress them using victimizing language like, “shared spaces”.
I don’t even know why I’m here I’m fucking Canadian.
That colonial mindset again
Hands up if you truly believe the young unionists give one single solitary fuck about free period products or, as they’ve accused others of doing, are they weaponising such a thing in order to come up with any sort of reason why Irish shouldn’t be up on signage. Nobody? Yeah, same.
Somebody tell them that the Rangers supporters club on the Isle of Lewis speak Gaelic, just like many other protestant communities in the Outer Hebrides. Never understood the hate towards a language.
Just goes to show, and a prime example is Jim Allister – education can’t cure ignorance. You would have hoped that these people might have integrated with Catholics, minorities etc. This is speaking as someone who is educated.
How sad for the missed opportunity.
Wonder if they complain as much when government funding is spent on the clean up and policing costs during the 11th and 12th of July festivities.
It was the Brits who tried to kill the language to begin with? The language is to be revived by the Irish for the Irish. While the British empire raked in untold millions in trade, loot, slavery and plunder, the Irish language was forced into near extinction
As far as the unionists are concerned, they shouldnt even have a fucking say in this conversation at all. In fact, id be openly against any fuckin unionist or loyalist cunt who felt they had a say, for even speaking on this topic at all. It’s akin to a convicted rapist getting any say on how the victim should be allowed to speak, and I dont say that lightly.
Any unionist with a shred of fuckin dignity and self awareness will not say a word on this. Id even advocate the British government fork out the cost for reviving the language considering it was them who almost nailed the final nails in the coffin.
Trying to explain stuff like this to non-NI is so embarrassing. It’s DUAL signage, signage for everyone. Not oppressing either side. They are teenagers and instead of going out enjoying/setting up their early life they’re sitting having a huff protesting A SIGN 😂
If people put all their sectarian energy into improving the place instead of being miserable dicks god knows how lovely our country could be
List of subjects Unionists are active in trying to save money:
1. Irish language signs
Saving the Union one sign at a time!
As a unionist I don’t understand the uproar about Irish especially when unionism is so obsessed with Ulster Scot’s which is more of a dialect and even less people speak.
“Historically the language has been used by some as a political weapon , creating understandable unease among unionists” firstly who exactly has used as a political weapon .
Secondly it’s a language not a gun , how are they using this as a political weapon .
Thirdly if it’s a shared space shouldn’t they be allowed to use whatever language they want .
Fourthly who cares it’s a language if people want to learn and use it let em learn and use it .
This is probably the biggest pile of shit I’ve seen all day
Irish was here before them and it will be here for long after we are all gone.
Them talking about how they wouldn’t want the uni to encur costs of the new signage is the most laughable attempt at bullshit I think I’ve ever read.
I 100% agree that a balanced approach to language support is important, and that not just one language is given precedence to the other.
So let’s get some signage up in Irish to prevent the precedence given to English and give some balance to the University.
Thank you young unionists, great shout.
There has to be less cringeworthy ways of graduating a virgin…
Big talk about neutrality and shared spaces etc when they’re all singing songs about killing the other side when the orange walks are on.
If ye want to be English so bad then move to fkn England. Even if you call it the north, it’s still Ireland. No amount of crying changes that.
As a Gaeilgeoir from a Protestant background, should I stop speaking my native language now?? I’m confused because I thought Bilingual Signage was a non-contentious thing in Scotland and Wales, so surely it brings us in line with other parts of the UK. At a time when mainstream unionism is struggling, they should be reaching out to the middle ground, not pushing the middle ground away in the vain hope of scraping a few DUP votes back from the hardliners.
Irish is the UKs second fastest growing language btw.
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