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We're All Nazis
In an effort to enhance his credibility with the wider community in Northern Ireland, yer man who was the Catholic priest witness to IRA decommissioning (Father Alec Reid) has decided that Unionists are all Nazis. During a heated debate, he told an audience at Fitzroy Presbyterian Church last night that "The nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis' treatment of the Jews."
You see we're all aware discrimination happened in Northern Ireland under the old Stormont government, but what most of you probably didn't realise was that large numbers of poor ordinary decent nationalists were rounded up and forced to work as slaves in 'labour camps' while others were mass-marched into gas chambers and executed.
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Fr Reid later apologised, saying he was strongly provoked as comments were being made about his integrity and his church. Fair play, we all get a bit pissed off sometimes and exaggerate, but if there was ever an incident that explained why Unionists often dismiss nationalists calling discrimination as the "Most Oppressed People Ever," this is one.
I'm not saying there was no discrimination, and will say that there most certainly was, but this self-pitying bullshit only serves to undermine and cast doubt on real instances of discrimination, as people ask themselves "Well is that really true, are or they just feeling sorry for themselves again?"
If anyone's really interested in the extent of discrimination, check out "How much discrimination was there under the unionist regime, 1921-68?" by John Whyte (stored at CAIN).