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"Love Ulster" Hate-Fest Embarrasses All
You're probably aware about a new "campaign" launched yesterday by the Shankill Mirror. It was called a campaign, but from what I can see it's really just a lot of hype surrounding the new "Special Ulster Edition" of the Shankill Mirror.
The campaign consists of the paper itself and the website at LoveUlster.com - which I'll get into later. One, apparently "in the know," poster had this to say about the Shankill Mirror's Ulster Edition:
Following its official launch this morning (Monday 29th Aug), 200,000 copies of the paper will be distributed around Northern Ireland this week, in order to encourage province-wide debate.
Province-wide debate? They're having a laugh. Flicking through the paper it seems nothing more than an attempt at scaremongering, encouraging 'loyalists' to impersonate the worst trait's of the infamous Sinn Fein/IRA propaganda machine with insightful headlines such as "We're All Victims". Yes, because one thing Ulster needs is more people with inflated victimhood mentalities.
Follow up:
The paper claims to want to encourage debate, but in reality all it is is a history of IRA atrocities on a par with Sinn Fein's one-sided and deliberately misleading 'dossier' of "Unionist Death Squad Attacks" or whatever they called it. It may be a useful (although obviously one-sided) account of history, but to try to dress it up as anything else is laughable. It really did make me wonder if the paper was circulated simply to scare unionist/loyalist people and to therefore justify the continuance of the loyalist paramilitary gangsters that blight our nation.
The website LoveUlster.com is no better. Again, supposedly a forum for debate, it ends up with prepubescent adolescent (probably spotty) teenage 'loyalist' thickos "arguing" with troublemaking republican trolls. I spent some time yesterday trying to generate serious discussion, and felt like I was getting somewhere for a while, but felt a bit like King Canute by the end of it.
Some sample posts follow:
"what do u call a fish shop bomb in the shankhill????
the good old days...."
bugmenot in 'Have your say'
"i would like to see a ulster still british but also free from all the filthy paki scum etc who will be as much a threat as the ira are"
white ulster in 'What future would you like to see for Ulster?'
"Keep ulster british its plain and simple thats my few and im proud of it.never surrender keep ure heads high and stand united as protestants, on our goal which we will achieve and that is to always have the rite to celbrate the culture and the hertitage of what we r and who we r...... "
Cluan Place in 'What future would you like to see for Ulster?'
"Unite and fight, cause Ulster is right."
Fusilier in 'Have your say'
I could go on but I won't - and I swear I'm not making this up. What can I say, it was a nice idea, badly executed. I started Everything Ulster as a forum for debate on Unionist views, and despite a dodgy start seem to have got some varied (and appreciated) opinions here. I had contemplated adding a forum at one stage where people could talk about their own topics but having seen how ignorant, stupid, moronic f**king INBRED 'loyalists' flock like sheep to anything with the word Ulster in it, I may pass. (One of the posters, the best part of whom clearly ran down his mother's leg, thought that since I said I didn't want the site to go down the sectarian hatred route like so many loyalist sites, I must be a republican!)
I had a similar experience on Calton Radio, but thought that being a new site, Love Ulster might be different. Unfortunately, sectarian hatred and bigotry is more prevalent on the internet than sites like EU and Slugger would have you believe.