A Thread:
The ignorance and insensitivity shown by Laura Whitmore in those posts is horrible but not new. We all know it's indicative of a lack of understanding that so many of us raised in the South have around the trauma Northern Ireland faces as a post-conflict society.

Turning a blind eye to the conflict in Northern Ireland is something that has been going on for decades.

Eavan Boland referenced it in her poem  Warhorse,

" ..one of the screamless dead.
But we, we are safe, our unformed fear
Of fierce commitment gone; why should we care"

A prime example is the Peace 93 movement started by Susan McHugh, a Dublin woman, in response to the Warrington bombing where two English boys were killed. A campaign for peace that was inspired by a bombing that had happened outside of the blindspots of the conflict in N.I.

As Fr. Dennis Fault (an IRA critic) said at the time "The woman leading the peace moves in Dublin is very sincere and deserves the height of praise. The sympathy for the Warrington parents is very good and warming and I share it. ....

But next week there could be Catholic children burnt in their beds in Belfast . . . Will there be flowers for them? There have been so many children killed here, with plastic bullets and so on, and nobody in Dublin sent flowers".

During the troubles so many people in the South turned away from the conflict instead of showing support or compassion and that legacy of indifference has continued to this day..I saw it myself when so much of the energy and support shown in Repealing the 8th, died away when it

came to fighting get those same rights for people of N.I. A lot of us in the South have othered Northern Ireland's pain and trauma and yet in that same breath will say 'give us our six counties back'. 

I've never been held at gunpoint by a member of the British army.

I've never been sprayed with water cannons or shot with rubber bullets by the British Army while peacefully protesting. I've never been shot in the back whilst unarmed, running away from members of the British army. 

John Hume experienced and bore witness to these atrocities.

To put is name beside a post to promote the British Army is grossly disrespectful. To use 'feminism' to justify it is ridiculous.
Although most wouldn't do that, we in R.O.I need to have a look at ourselves and our attitude to N. I. Indifference and ignorance are a privilege.

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