What's there to cite? I'm taking two observations and making an inference based on a likely connection.
Because the British were violently ejected from the Republic, sassenach. Ulster is still a living testament to the legacies of sectarian discrimination because the institutions of bigotry and capital are still tied together and mutually support each other. Like in the US.
Daily News Thread 2/7
Probably because they had a successful armed uprising and people's war that ejected them from most of the country. Even still northern Ireland is an open wound.
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WTF?
Slavery, then segregation until 1964 (although in various parts it continued due to local support), then assassination of civil rights leaders, lynching, police brutality and overwhelming focus on black males, redlining, and the results of poverty coming from all of these things.
By the way, Ireland still hasn't recovered from the famine. It's population is still less than what it was.
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Bitchy "journalist" bitches about bitchy antifa wacko bitching about le gays. The absolute state of the world. I can't read an opinion piece that doesn't include the author's self-proclaimed moral/aesthetic/intellectual superiority over what is reported.