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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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  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Lmao it’s so absurd on the surface, it’s just anti-violence in all ways (except when it’s done by a state and their enforcers).

    Childlike position. People are fine with violence depending on what it is wielded for, and for these people they see the cause as having been just.

    Also the songs are banging.