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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“…well, they would, but they’d make sure to make it dog-whistley enough for plausible deniability so they can play it on the radio”