Funniest thing I’ve heard before was some unionists on Reddit discussing why there’s so few movies with heroic loyalist characters. Like, they talked about bias and Irish-Americans, etc, and just couldn’t understand why people don’t sympathise with a supremacist ideology.
“The war of Northern Agression”
what the absolute fuck
I learned today that this wall plays Sweet Home Alabama first. Then the Dukes of Hazard theme song.
It should read “The sons of Ulster who led the Confederate army to defeat”
As an American, them using the Confederate flag is so unbelievably cringe. They realize these people fought for the right to own people as property right? Not sure that’s who they want to be associated with
The irony being that these confederate heroes are people who are (or are descended from) Ulster-Scots, and *their* ‘Ulster’ blood is probably mostly or entirely Scottish or English in origin.
Also, when you read about the backwards hillbilly southern WASP states in the US – they’re largely people descended Scottish and Ulster-Scots too.
Can anyone explain to me what Unionist culture actually is? Who are their fiction writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers? What celebrations do they have that don’t entail triumphalist exhibitions of hatred? When you interrogate their foundations and ongoing actions just a bit, it all seems to crumble apart–except for their steadfast pillar of political hegemony.
So I guess the question is … is there an orange morris marina rolling around belfast with a union jack on the roof delivering putin and evading the RUC?
They venerate the Confederacy? The blasted Confederacy!!!??? Guess I shouldn’t be all that surprised.
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What Ulster blood
Funniest thing I’ve heard before was some unionists on Reddit discussing why there’s so few movies with heroic loyalist characters. Like, they talked about bias and Irish-Americans, etc, and just couldn’t understand why people don’t sympathise with a supremacist ideology.
“The war of Northern Agression”
what the absolute fuck
I learned today that this wall plays Sweet Home Alabama first. Then the Dukes of Hazard theme song.
It should read “The sons of Ulster who led the Confederate army to defeat”
As an American, them using the Confederate flag is so unbelievably cringe. They realize these people fought for the right to own people as property right? Not sure that’s who they want to be associated with
The irony being that these confederate heroes are people who are (or are descended from) Ulster-Scots, and *their* ‘Ulster’ blood is probably mostly or entirely Scottish or English in origin.
Also, when you read about the backwards hillbilly southern WASP states in the US – they’re largely people descended Scottish and Ulster-Scots too.
Can anyone explain to me what Unionist culture actually is? Who are their fiction writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers? What celebrations do they have that don’t entail triumphalist exhibitions of hatred? When you interrogate their foundations and ongoing actions just a bit, it all seems to crumble apart–except for their steadfast pillar of political hegemony.
So I guess the question is … is there an orange morris marina rolling around belfast with a union jack on the roof delivering putin and evading the RUC?
They venerate the Confederacy? The blasted Confederacy!!!??? Guess I shouldn’t be all that surprised.