Minute silence in schools at noon to remember the famine. Why can't we move on?

[Cruimh]

What does that mean?

Someone commemorating a person who chose to starve himself to death when there was any amount of food contributing to a thread about commemorating so many who starved to death because they had no choice in the matter seems grotesque but unsurprising. He's a bit slow.

[femmefatale]

That would seem a fair speculation.

My enemy's enemy ..., huh?

[Toland]

My enemy's enemy ..., huh?

No. 'Enemy' is far too melodramatic a word, for a start.

[femmefatale]

Someone commemorating a person who chose to starve himself to death when there was any amount of food contributing to a thread about commemorating so many who starved to death because they had no choice in the matter seems grotesque but unsurprising. He's a bit slow.

I find your references to B Sands grotesque. Your logic is perverse.

[Ifor Bach]

The refusal of many people including the establishment to call this episode was it was ie. genocide is the reason why these debates famine/holocaust typically run and run. Acknowledging that it was genocide is something that the Government and many people aren't prepared to do but it is something that will have to be faced up to eventually.

As it wasn't 'genocide', it's pretty hard to see why they should.

[femmefatale]

No. 'Enemy' is far too melodramatic a word, for a start.

You don't consider yourself to be an enemy of (Irish) Catholicism? Or it to be the enemy of reason, or something?

[Toland]

Cruimh is a has an obsession with all things Irish and Papish, he is also a troll. As he put it himself, that he uses Cruimh, not to mean butterfly but as in maggot.

He set up the account to act the maggot.

Really?

I'm taking him at face value here. He seems to be exposing some latent bigotry here.

That's always a useful thing to do on our sad and beautiful island.

[Ifor Bach]

Someone commemorating a person who chose to starve himself to death when there was any amount of food contributing to a thread about commemorating so many who starved to death because they had no choice in the matter seems grotesque but unsurprising. He's a bit slow.

+1

[femmefatale]

+1

[femmefatale]

Really?

I'm taking him at face value here. He seems to be exposing some latent bigotry here.

By this I take it you mean his own?