u/Sturdy_Tumbleweed

An issue I have with the men at my church

I regularly go to TLM in Northern Ireland (the part of Ireland belonging to the UK rather than to the Republic of Ireland)

Many of the guys at my church are outspoken, diehard, hardcore Irish nationalist/republican 1970s sectarian types who venerate violent revolutionaries and terrorists and utterly hate and resent British people and want the UK to balkanise. They believe that all the boatmen flooding into the UK are God's punishment against the British for "occupying" Northern Ireland. On those grounds, they oppose right-wing UK parties and movements like Restore Britain.

Despite that, they're all very popular and high-status at the Church. Everyone there, including the Priest, likes and respects them and one of them is getting married this year with the previous Priest's sister.

On the other hand, I get yelled at and told off whenever I express right-wing views or say anything negative about Jews, Arabs, Africans, Indians etc. They call me "racist" while they're openly sectarian and anti-British.

It feels just like the "hello, human resources?!" meme to me.

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u/Sturdy_Tumbleweed — 8 days ago