Men who apologised over McAreavey video express concern over ‘public witch hunt’ | BreakingNews.ie

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  1. >It insisted there was no intent to broadcast the chant on social media, and it was “incidentally streamed” on Facebook Live.

    Please understand we didn’t know that people would find out the horrible things we did.

  2. We didn’t mean for the terrible thing we did to become public knowledge and therefore shouldn’t be held to account for it……ok then!

  3. It just underlines Joe Brolly’s point that this is totally fine with that community, provided you don’t get [caught](https://www.newstalk.com/news/joe-brolly-mcareavey-song-is-part-of-a-very-sectarian-culture-1351656).

    These people were saying that it was your man’s fault for recording it and uploading it to the Internet a few days ago. Had he not been so silly, it wouldn’t have caused them any trouble whatsoever, which tells me that the *outrage* from members of the OO in the aftermath is performative at best.

    Now it’s a witch hunt…. of course it is. Naturally…. I mean, what *else* could it be? Certainly not the consequences of your own grotesque actions having a detrimental impact on your life – no, no it’s a witchhunt by the woke brigade; can’t even revel in an innocent woman’s murder because she’s part of The Other at a private function anymore, it’s political correctness gone mad I tell you!

    Jaime Bryson’s involvement, even as a consultant, should tell you all you need to know about these people. They’re nothing but dragged up, sectarian shitbags praying for all this to blow over.

  4. It’s not really a witch hunt, if you actually did what the angry villagers are angry over… I mean, if you really did turn their sons into frogs, and sell their daughters love portions made of reptile organs, and there was corroborating testimony and physical evidence, then it’s not really a witch hunt… It’s just holding a witch to account… The fundamental premise of a witch hunt, is that the allegations are unfounded… They’re on video… Regardless of whether you can bring yourself you somehow condone or excuse their actions, you can’t condone the flagrant usurpation of long standing idioms… If you start down that road, the whole world becomes Fox News

  5. I knew as soon as Bwyson got involved that they would be transformed into the victims within days.

    By next week it’ll be a Sinn Féin/IRA/GAA/ESB sectarian witch-hunt against innocent Unionist culture.

    These men, by their own actions, have seen themselves made unemployed, unemployable, they’ve seen themselves ostracised by both decent society for taking part in hate, and by their Orange buddies for inadvertently exposing the hate-fests.

    Doubling down will do nothing other than increase the utter contempt that society feels for them.

  6. So ‘we’re sorry for singing about a dead woman for sectarian reasons but we’re concerned about the fact that more people didn’t jump to our defence”

  7. I find more and more that if someone gives out about something being a witch hunt… it probably isn’t a witch hunt. Especially as it’s usually the subject of the “witch hunt” that calls it out.

    It’s clever, because we all know witch hunts are bad, because they are, so they just label something as such and we all kinda go “oh, let’s be careful, we wouldn’t want to behave like all those historic witch hunts… which we know were baaaaaad.”

    All part of the ol “word have no meaning anymore, it’s all just emotions now” lark they seem to love across the pond of late. Slap a few labels on things and let them guide ye.

    “Well we really got stung here… what button can we press to deflect attackers and provide a centre point for our supporters to rally around rather than deal with the actual issue… witch hunt? Yeah… that’s a good one”

  8. Witch hunt? Lol those stupid cunts can cry victim all they want, but they should consider themselves lucky that people didn’t go completely apeshit. And witch hunt me arse, try that shite in the States or even England and see how far that’ll get you. Guarantee it wouldn’t be pretty.

  9. “Soldiers going to jail for killing nationalists was already a step too far, but good orange men being criminalised for laughing at dead nationalists? What is this place coming to!”- Orange men, probably

  10. This brings to mind last year when a Rangers supporters bus was caught singing racist chants about Celtic’s Japanese players, complete with “slanty eye” gestures and when a few days later a fan group called the Union Bears were caught singing racist songs about the Famine.

    After the inevitable consequences landed, the latter threw an enormous tantrum about their fans being “witch hunted” and accused the media of having an agenda. Their supporters clubs banned video recordings.

    It’s not the conduct that’s the problem because the hate is the point. It’s the “grasses/touts” for recording it and the Fenian media for making it out to be a big deal.

  11. Get fucked!! You deserve what you get when you do what they did. I mean it’s one thing to sing about a republican or loyalist terrorist/freedom fighter (whichever word you want to use) but it’s utterly disgraceful mocking the murder of a woman that’s got nothing to do with any of that stuff.

  12. I genuinely hope these bastards have their lives ruined, and I would absolutely love to see their lives being ruined more often.

    They’re fascists, nothing more.

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