Only decent country in Europe change my mind.
My fellow Irishmen, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw TERF Island forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
FINALLY some good fucking news somewhere in the world for our trans comrades! This is awesome to see!
Only decent country in Europe change my mind.
I won't you're right. They were also the only country in Europe to get colonized. Interesting relationship there :soviet-hmm:
I think it's more that Ireland is still currently colonized. Cyprus, Finland, Netherlands, and Norway have also been colonies
the netherlands were never a colony. unless you count the dutch colonizing the innocent alluvial marshes :theory-gary:
I was thinking of when the Netherlands were Spanish. What would that be considered?
feudal overlordship. no-one was particularly bothered until the calvinists started stirring shit
Habsburg domination of the low countries was justified
i will die on this hill smh 😤
it was entirely legal according to the succession laws of their [low countries'] country, and when the calvinists started the spanish acted fully within their rights under the Peace of Augsburg :sicko-luna:
Calling Norway a colony is a bit too much in my opinion. It was more of a dynastic bullshit situation where the king who only cared about you if he wanted you to pay taxes or be a soldier spoke a different dialect than you did yourself. The Danes and the Swedes were not angels but I don't think they engineered famines or tried to eradicate Norwegian culture and Norwegians were not seen as being inferior to Danes or Swedes.
Iceland and the Faroe Islands are better candidates for European victims of imperialism but even there there was not the racist component that you found in Ireland.
Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is definitely a victim of still ongoing imperialism but I don't know if they count as European.
if we're talking about colonialism / imperialism in Scandinavia then definitely the Sapmi were / are victims
you're conflating imperialism / feudal dominion with colonialism here tho
Ireland in the 1600s was the dress rehearsal for the British empire
:soypoint-1:: "Uh oh! Looks like Ireland has gone authoritarian!"
It's wild how Ireland snapped forward after legalizing abortion in 2018. It's like the hard-right acceleration in the rest of the west, except in reverse.
By 2030 they're going to build a big ass rocket in the port of Dublin to push the entire country west into the Atlantic Ocean
I am no longer for Irish Unification, for that does not go far enough. I am now for Irish Expansion. England shall become East Ireland. Scotland can be an autonomous zone in Northeast Ireland.
Based country. Start the countdown until irish people get ejected from whitedom like Russians have.
:soypoint-1: the sign says colored and Irish only!! :soypoint-2:
-average redditor discovering this in BioShock infinite
Nah, the US isn't quite that far along its child solder arc yet
Ireland has done a weird dash left from being an extremely hardcore catholic liberal state to legalising abortion and gay marriage by an overwhelming referendum. I think a lot of Irish people are much further left than the state
I think a lot of Irish people are much further left than the state
The people are much further left than the state in lots and lots of places. That's just the way things are when you live in a dictatorship of capital where the ruling class actively works against and aims to deepen divisions between the people.
I think a lot of Irish people are much further left than the state
Like @AcidSmiley also said: that's the case everywhere. For example, check out this study in Nature about the difference between actual support for climate policies, and the perceived support for it among Americans.
The release of two big reports in Ireland about the Catholic church broke the back of catholicism as a political force in the country.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases_in_Ireland
English fascists are already occupying the northern part of the country so possibly. I honestly doubt the English have it in them though.
There's other places in Europe that plan similar measures. Germany also wants to include gender identity among the protected characteristics for anti-discrimination laws, which is just what Ireland did here.
the actual problem, whether it's in Sweden or Ireland, will be getting that enforced, because judges are extremely likely to not have the slightest idea what even constitutes transphobia.
Yeah, it is good to have it on the books at least, but discrimination on gender or racial basis being illegal hasn't stopped racism or sexism.
Yeah,these things have systemic causes. As long as we live in a capitalist society, we will live in a society that has an interest in turning the workers against each other, that has an interest in maintaining racism and national chauvinism as a foundation for imperialist subjugation, that has an interest in maintaining patriarchal and by extension queerphobic structures because toxic masculinity is inextrivably linked to capitalist competetiveness and to militarism. You cannot fully excise bigottry from a capitalist society.
Such small reformist steps can still be major advancements for marginalized people, though. It is doctoring at symptoms, it is restricted to the indiviual level, and that's even before hindrances such as how hard it is to prove that somebody said something bigotted about you in person. But it does make a difference if, say, being a transphobe to your co-worker is legal or if it isn't.
In Belgium it already exists . Discrimination against trans people is forbidden, and being transphobic is an aggrivating factor for any other crime (meaning that it will increase your punishment).
