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How quickly we forget about the horrors of the IRA.

That's a silly thing to say.

 

Just because a terrorist organisation exists in a country it doesn't automatically mean the whole country is entrenched in the same ideology.  My post took nothing away from the severity of the actions of the IRA - largely because it's a different subject matter to my post.

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It's the 'Islam is evil because some terrorists are islamic' reasoning all over again...

 

Generalisations are unfair by their very nature in addition to being extremely inaccurate.

I don't see how it's a generalisation of any sort really. If it is, how is it any more so than saying the Irish are a fantastic bunch of people? 

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Correct me if I'm wrong but was not the implication of your comment that the Irish can't be good people because of the IRA? That would suggest the general statement "all Irish are terrorists". I've met a couple Irishmen, and heard accounts from some of your contrymen suggesting they are a lovely people, obviously not all of them are though.

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It's the 'Islam is evil because some terrorists are islamic' reasoning all over again...

 

Generalisations are unfair by their very nature in addition to being extremely inaccurate.

I don't see how it's a generalisation of any sort really. If it is, how is it any more so than saying the Irish are a fantastic bunch of people? 

Funny, at first I read correlations  are unfair, and I thought "yeah, correlations are unfair!".

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Of course I haven't met everybody in Ireland, I am not omnipotent - or maybe that's the issue for you AtTheGates? I am just not meeting enough people before posting about my experiences of the minor cross section of the populace I have worked with and met in the months I have been out there? I had assumed some rationale and logic would be applied by anyone who read my post, apologies for not thinking of those who need a magnifying glass and a pair of tweezers to read posts on an internet forum.

If you thought my statement was too generalising or broad in scope then you could have just said so. Indicating I am ignorant of the history of the Troubles was a dumb response and RelentlessOblivion was correct to call you on it.

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How quickly we forget about the horrors of the IRA.

Well, from the sounds of what Macabre is saying the Northern Irish have as well, which would suggest that they can jolly well have a pint and enjoy themselves instead of letting the resentment simmer in the kind of post-war bitterness that tends to lay the foundations for the next bout of fighting (WW2, Egypt in 2013, Zimbabwe in 1994 and 2000, Central African Republic in 2013-2014 with the Bangui violence of October 2014 being a particularly horrifying example)

For that matter, South Africa was laden with horrors back in 2005 (still is) and I had a lovely time vacationing along the coast, even outside the safe haven of Cape Town.

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Pretty much, not silence though there's frequent jibes exchanged over sports results...and the fact that the Vics stole about eight hundred square kilometers from us when the borders were redrawn post federation.

Well, I suppose that explains South Australia's crippling poverty, low HDI and lack of investment in the political system.

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Well, from the sounds of what Macabre is saying the Northern Irish have as well, which would suggest that they can jolly well have a pint and enjoy themselves instead of letting the resentment simmer in the kind of post-war bitterness that tends to lay the foundations for the next bout of fighting (WW2, Egypt in 2013, Zimbabwe in 1994 and 2000, Central African Republic in 2013-2014 with the Bangui violence of October 2014 being a particularly horrifying example)

For that matter, South Africa was laden with horrors back in 2005 (still is) and I had a lovely time vacationing along the coast, even outside the safe haven of Cape Town.

Next bout of fighting? 

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That's a silly thing to say.

 

Just because a terrorist organisation exists in a country it doesn't automatically mean the whole country is entrenched in the same ideology.  My post took nothing away from the severity of the actions of the IRA - largely because it's a different subject matter to my post.

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