{"id":494694,"date":"2026-05-20T20:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/494694\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:29:12","slug":"treacy-the-left-is-looking-for-its-george-floyd-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/494694\/","title":{"rendered":"TREACY: The left is looking for its George Floyd moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While the instinctive identification on the part of much of the Left with Yves Sakila and their attempt to incorporate it into a tenuous narrative of \u2018racism\u2019 and an \u2018attack on all Black people\u2019 \u2013 which the video of the incident last Friday itself renders absurd \u2013 might seem puzzling, it is a conscious one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It dates back to the 1950s when the Marxist Left realised that the horrors of Stalinist socialism\u00a0 combined with the freedoms and higher living standards of the West had reduced any appeal it might once have had to the \u2018straight white working class.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the instinctive identification on the part of much of the Left with Yves Sakila and their attempt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[199342,35431,9413,18,117,97474,35305,19,17,214433],"class_list":["post-494694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-arnotts","tag-congo","tag-death","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-george-floyd","tag-henry-street","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-yves-sakila"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}