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What is going on with people painting the red cross on the roundabouts to make the flag of england?
(lemmy.ml)
And why is this being related to rascism? It's not like people are burning the flag of other countries in videos.
Ulsterisation.
As the right gropes towards power it will look for models of non-state violence and it has settled on the unionist terrorist paramilitaries.
Which is instructive and ironic that they choose Loyalists. Ulster is a mature settler colonial project where their intention was to supplant the indigenous population. That is what these far right twats fear most happening to them. The fact that it is not the essence of the act but that the subject of the act potentially being themselves that defines the act as evil in their eyes reveals their untrustworthy shallow parasitic self interest.
In northern ireland, they'd paint the kerb stones red, white and blue as well as putting up the flags and bunting in areas where there was a working class protestant majority. They couldn't enact pogroms like they did in the 1920's with impunity so this slowly strangling intimidation became the vogue for the capture of territory and constant enforcement of sectarianism on the entirety of both communities. As a catholic growing up there, those areas did not feel like public space but pits of self harming fear and rage.