The big deal is there’s no shame. They couldn’t sing about any other violent group, from the Ku Klux Klan to Al-Qa’ida, because their acts are rightly seen as grotesque and their cause entirely illegitimate and immoral. But there’s no shame in the IRA. Why?
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If you sing God save the king you’re basically al Qa’ida, but unironically
Lmao it’s so absurd on the surface, it’s just anti-violence in all ways (except when it’s done by a state and their enforcers).
Childlike position. People are fine with violence depending on what it is wielded for, and for these people they see the cause as having been just.
Also the songs are banging.
TIL violence is an ideology that links the IRA, KKK, and Alqaida. Really they’re all the same thing
This is unironically the Liberal mindset distilled. Identity Politics has them linking together groups based around behaviors as much as other features. Violence is just another behavior that can link together disparate groups politically. It’s is, you know, the root neurosis causes them to react so hard against, the IRA, Al Qaida, *sniff* revolutionary communism, and so on, as a way to act out their own inversion. It is precisely this moment, you know, *sniff* that is Ideology.
If hurting people is bad, and makes you a bad person
Then why are they so pro ?
They wouldn’t sing about…the Ku Klux Klan
“…well, they would, but they’d make sure to make it dog-whistley enough for plausible deniability so they can play it on the radio”
