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Belfast in 2019 is a divided city, much like Berlin had been from 1961 to 1989. Britain likes to think this is because the Irish are violent. But what Britain likes to ignore is that it is at the heart of the division.
A thread on causality.
A thread on causality.
From the early 17th century, in order to make the "wild Irish" more governable from London, James I and VI began the Plantation of Ulster. Gaelic Catholic Irish people were dispossessed of their land to make way for Protestant 'planters' from Scotland, England, and Wales.
From the time of the Plantation of Ulster until the present day, the British media has consistently presented the Irish people as savage, animalistic, and uncivilised. This has made it possible for Britain to treat Ireland with increasing indifference and brutality.
