Poll: Do you think Ireland is a racist country?

[Ognir]

bullshit news outfit anyways ...

A REPORT PUBLISHED today revealed a total of 182 racist incidents were reported in Ireland over a six month period.

The European Network against Racism Ireland gave details of a racist attack on a pregnant woman and a case of arson against a Traveller child.

We want to know what you have to say: Do you think Ireland is a racist country?

http://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-racist-poll-2002648-Mar2015/

[Michael K.]

I understand that every country has some racists, but what is an opinion poll going to reveal?  The whole premise of such a poll seems a bit like an opportunity to spread the notion that in in fact is.

Try and imagine a poll in the New York Times asking whether Israel is a racist country.  The whole thing would be denounced as defamatory.

One notion holds that the Irish are racist as because they keep insisting they are not British, and thus somehow different or better, kind of like other hate groups such as the so called "Native Americans," "First Nations," and other such reactionaries.  Perhaps they should be dispersed abroad everywhere and compelled to integrate into the global community.

[WokkaWicklo]

In general I don't think the Irish to be racist. There's a minority of people commonly known as scumbags who don't like anyone. I reckon the fact that the people who were attacked were foreign is just happenstance. The toerags who carried out these attacks are just as likely to start on someone else down the street because they have big ears. Any excuse at all for them to pick a fight. You don't have to be from outside the country to fall prey to arseholes, you could have a strange accent from a different county or even be from the neighbouring towns, the next estate etc. Alls it takes is to be slightly different in any way shape or form and these mindless ejits will single you out.