It’s Saint Patrick’s Day, and the President of Ireland chose to mark it with a speech endorsing the accelerating demographic replacement of the indigenous Irish people — a tiny, irreplaceable population, with a rich and unique culture, who, if nothing is done (and it is probably already too late) will be a minority in their own homeland a couple of decades from now.
Poor, poor, long-suffering Ireland. Imagine enduring centuries of brutal oppression, the Famine, the Civil War, the Troubles, and at long last creating a prosperous, self-governing homeland for your ancient people on their tiny, beautiful island — finally, a chance for real stewardship and preservation for the treasure of your rich and ancient heritage! — only to have it snatched from your hands in the very hour of triumph, and given away, by those you trusted, to an inrushing horde of utterly alien invaders.
It’s hard to imagine a more unforgivable act of betrayal.
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Indeed. Makes you wonder why the native population doesn’t just revolt. Western man’s spirit seems to have died before the invasion actually began.
Randy E- the Irish people, as a whole, never actually stood up against the English.
It was always a small fraction of the populations, tiny numbers of highly motivated people, as with most protest actions and revolutionary movements.
The general population may have agreed with them, but never became actively engaged.
I learned this concretely living in NYC during Covid.
She doesn’t quite “endorse” demographic replacement, but her language signals that she will do nothing to oppose it.
I have to disagree, Bill. In the current context — a smoldering rage at mass immigration that has led to serious civil unrest — for Ms. Connolly to make the annual St. Patrick’s Day message little more than an apologia for open borders is to choose sides in this fight in a deliberately provocative way. This woman (a woman, of course!) knows exactly what she’s doing, and it’s a premeditated thumb in the eye to everyone who cares about Ireland remaining Irish.