Northern Ireland has only ever mattered to middle-class English people when they could say the EU brought peace here. The poverty, mental illness and suicide, paramilitary violence and lack of human rights regarding bodily autonomy has never ever mattered to them. I’m tired.

These people think all of the problems of NI started with Brexit and Boris Johnson. No. NI has been left behind the whole time, they just don’t care and are just using the ongoing violence here for their political comments.

Seeing takes like this on my timeline makes me angrier than I can say. How dare you claim everything here was fine before Brexit.

also pls don’t follow me if your sense of humour/genuine opinion is ‘haha all loyalists/unionists r dumb, England doesn’t even want youse’ - you’re missing the whole point of why working class communities here have been left behind and you’re holding the working class back

AND I voted leave so miss me w the ‘everyone who voted leave has blood on their hands’ rhetoric. The EU allows refugees and asylum seekers to drown in the Mediterranean. It’s freedom of movement for white Europeans while they sit in buildings built from brutal colonialism.

help the edgelords are trying to own me by asking “genuinely confused” questions while quote-tweeting me

he really thought he did something class w this huh.

It’s when I talk about colonialism and everything thinks it’s a gotcha to tell me about the British Empire.. I know? But the reality is not a lot of people know about Belgium’s colonial past, France’s colonial present or the EU and the general exploitation of the Global South

If you’re asking facetious questions under the guise of “genuine confusion” and then quote tweeting me to try and make a dick out of me, you forfeit your right for me to engage you like an adult. It’s not “genuine criticism”, you’re a keyboard warrior acting big and tough.

honestly at this point I’m probably just going to get more bad faith interactions from immature nationalists who think bc I’m a unionist it means I can’t criticise English ignorance about the NI situation... I should mute this thread.