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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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.
NOT the British armed forces though! Do not say that the empire was violent at all!