Why is July & June a not a good time for a show in Belfast

Jonsey · May 11, 2013

supremo said: ↑

It's in Scotland as there has been mass migration between Ulster/ Ireland and Scotland for hundreds of years. The majority of Protestant in Northern Ireland can trace their roots back to Scotland and when the potato famine occurred then there was mass migration from Ireland to Scotland- Catholic (and Protestant but if you listen to folklore the famine only affected Catholics....). Like any immigrant community Irish Catholics in Scotland tended to stick to themselves in the same areas, so while only 16% of Scotland's population is Catholic- probably around half the people in the central belt are Catholic. It's the central belt where 99% of sectarianism occurs. Catholics formed their own football team- Celtic and have their own education system, so they have in effect isolated themselves from Scottish society in order to protect their identity and church. Nowadays the Catholic Church loves to play the victim card and make wild claims of discrimination against its members whilst all the time perpetrating a school system which divides kids at the age of 4-18 and is protected by law for some reason in its refusal to employ Protestants as teachers in the primary schools or have Protestant in promoted posts in secondary schools- outrageous state sponsored discrimination. The fact the Catholics all live in the central belt means that although they only make up 16% of our population they are all centred in the Glasgow and Lanarkshire voting constituencies and tend to dominate local politics. The claim discrimination so often that non Catholics are scared to complain about their undue influence for fear of being labelled a "bigot".
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Viewpoints like this sum up why there is a problem. Always the other sides fault, it couldnt possibily be a two way issue, and theres no merit to the othersides arguement.

Beeston Brawler · May 11, 2013

dftaylor said: ↑

A lot of the Catholics in Glasgow are descended from Irish Catholics who moved over to Scotland in the late 1800s. Jobs in Glasgow dried up and the resident protestants, who are still the majority in the city, blamed them for their growing poverty.

From that, you saw gangs forming in the slums and the violence and hatred that spewed forth has continued. Religiously motivated hatred has always existed in Scotland, but now you've got poorly educated folk with no jobs and no prospects looking for a reason they feel so hateful. So it just perpetuates, generation after generation.

Now the sectarian violence is motivated by geographical lines, based on the colour of a football strip and 150 years of violence and history. It's sad.
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Reminds me of the EDL.

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