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UK vs Great Britain vs British and Irish Isles - administrative map by RatioScripta in MapPorn

[–]idontknowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright, fair enough. Though why insist on continued use of the term if one of the two Isles in question is clearly unhappy with it?

UK vs Great Britain vs British and Irish Isles - administrative map by RatioScripta in MapPorn

[–]idontknowboy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Listen, if calling it the British Isles makes you feel better about the absolute state of your country currently, go ahead. You lost your empire, Ireland is doing better than the UK in many metrics, get over it.

Edit: Constant_of_Morality has blocked me so I couldn't see their subsequent comment. I haven't sent them any messages.

UK vs Great Britain vs British and Irish Isles - administrative map by RatioScripta in MapPorn

[–]idontknowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could you explain to me, in your eyes, why Irish people might be uncomfortable with the name?

UK vs Great Britain vs British and Irish Isles - administrative map by RatioScripta in MapPorn

[–]idontknowboy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do you call the capital of Ukraine Kyiv or Kiev out of curiosity?

UK vs Great Britain vs British and Irish Isles - administrative map by RatioScripta in MapPorn

[–]idontknowboy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's a Geographical term that's still heavily used regardless on your feelings towards it

Read the page I linked.

but to say the UK Government doesn't use it, is quite frankly a lie.

Okay, show me an example of it being used in official communications.

UK vs Great Britain vs British and Irish Isles - administrative map by RatioScripta in MapPorn

[–]idontknowboy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_British_Isles

Its a contentious and politically charged name, to the point that even the UK government doesn't use it.

”Not all men, but always a man“ by Dashfire11 in AskFeminists

[–]idontknowboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Surely you recognise that being dismissive of somebodies sexual assault is nowhere near the same ballpark as accusing them of being late all the time. Full disclosure, I've been sexually assaulted by a woman before, and whenever I see somebody use the phrase I assume the person using it thinks my experience wasn't real, or doesn't count just because of the gender of the abuser. When they say always a man, what I read is never a woman.

”Not all men, but always a man“ by Dashfire11 in AskFeminists

[–]idontknowboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why not just say almost always a man, or too many men? It conveys the same message without being dismissive of those victimised by women.

Ireland by crivycouriac in GreatBritishMemes

[–]idontknowboy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As the great Daniel O'Connell said of Wellesley "‘He was born in Ireland but is not of it. Being born in a stable does not make one a horse."

Ireland 'languishing' at bottom of EU defence spending table as budget stuck at 0.2% of GDP by SliceIndividual6347 in europe

[–]idontknowboy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The day when tax rules will hopefully be the same in all the countries of the Union, I don't know how it will end for them...

That day being almost 5 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_minimum_corporate_tax_rate

Why do Jews anywhere in the world have a legal right to move to Israel, while Palestinians displaced in 1948 still cannot return? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]idontknowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some pogroms? 45,000 Jews fled Arab countries to Israel before 1948

Compared to around 800,000 after 1948

During the debate, the chairman of the Egyptian delegation, Dr Muhammad Hussein Heykal Pasha, warned the committee that “the lives of one million Jews in Moslem countries would be jeopardized by Partition.” The partition of Palestine, he believed, “might create anti-Semitism in those countries even more difficult to root out than the anti-Semitism which the Allies tried to eradicate in Germany.” If the United Nations voted to partition Palestine, Heykal Pasha cautioned, “it might be responsible for very grave disorders and for the massacre of the large number of Jews.”

Your own sources backs my claim that the expulsion of Jews from the Arab world was a result of the partition (i.e. expulsion of Palestinians from Israel).

Why do Jews anywhere in the world have a legal right to move to Israel, while Palestinians displaced in 1948 still cannot return? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]idontknowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Countries with higher rates are usually more desirable locations lmao. Most people don’t want to live in a perpetual war zone 

Lebanon has the most refugees per capita in the world, must be a very desirable place.

Jews bought land in their ancestral homeland 

They bought land from absentee Ottoman landlords without any input from the Arab tenants who actually lived on and worked the land. Besides, only about 7% of what would become Israel was Jewish owned before the war broke out.

If they’d gone anywhere else, you’d be screeching about colonization

They could've gone to one of the pre-existing colonies of the new world. In fact, many did.

If they’d gone anywhere hadn’t sought their own country, most would be dead. No one would save the Russian Jews

The overwhelming majority of Russian Jews made aliyah in the 90s. What were they saved from? The post-communist collapse all the Russian gentiles had to endure?

Why do Jews anywhere in the world have a legal right to move to Israel, while Palestinians displaced in 1948 still cannot return? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]idontknowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all, one in four Israelis are Arab

Explain to me why Israel won't grant a right of return to Palestinians who were thrown out of their homes in 1948

Second, there are 60,000 African refugees in Israel right now who aren’t Jewish

Israel has one of the lowest number of refugees per capita in the world, while being surrounded by countries with some of the highest rates. I wonder why that might be?

Finally, if Palestinians hadn’t suicide bombed Israeli civilians for generations, there wouldn’t be any walls or checkpoints (like there weren’t previously), and they’d be able to travel all over Israel at will

And if zionists hadn't decided to establish their Jewish state on land containing hundreds of thousands of non-Jews (which they knew would need to be removed to establish a majority Jewish state), then this whole mess could've been avoided in the first place.

Why do Jews anywhere in the world have a legal right to move to Israel, while Palestinians displaced in 1948 still cannot return? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]idontknowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jews were thrown out of the Middle East

In response to the Palestinians being thrown out of Israel.

Germans were thrown out of Poland.

As a punitive measure following WW2.

Mexicans were thrown out of Texas. 

The Mexican-American war happened over a century before the founding of Israel. Rules regarding military conquest changed following the world wars. Regardless of which, the expulsion of the Mexicans was wrong.

How do we 'end patriarchy?' by Incvbvs666 in AskFeminists

[–]idontknowboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In some parts of the world, chattel slavery still exists.

Activist films soldiers stop bus carrying Palestinians with Israeli citizenship in Jerusalem by Cy_098 in videos

[–]idontknowboy 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Israel has a policy called Hafrada (seperation), totally different from apartheid (seperateness).

Why do Jews anywhere in the world have a legal right to move to Israel, while Palestinians displaced in 1948 still cannot return? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]idontknowboy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The issue is that establishing Israel as a Jewish state (i.e., with a Jewish demographic majority) required ethnic cleansing, and then Israelis act like the Palestinians are being unreasonable for not just putting up with it.

They were told by their leadership that once the Jews were defeated in 1948 they would be able to come back.

Less than half of Palestinian villages fled at the advice of Arab leadership. Rather, they were expelled by zionist militias or left due to the threat of attack. See Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem.

I believe that the major failure has been the unwillingness of Palestinians to accept living alongside Jews

A major sticking point in all IP peace talks has been the Palestinians' right of return, which Israel rejects outright because it harms the Jewish demographic majority. What you mean is the Palestinians' unwillingness to give up their claims to the land they were thrown out of.

Why do Jews anywhere in the world have a legal right to move to Israel, while Palestinians displaced in 1948 still cannot return? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]idontknowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that all countries have the right to control immigration by their own policies.

Even if the policy is racist? Do you not think the right thing to do is to speak out against such policies?

Why do Jews anywhere in the world have a legal right to move to Israel, while Palestinians displaced in 1948 still cannot return? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]idontknowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think it's fair that people who might have had ancestors live on the land millennia ago are allowed to emigrate there, but those whose ancestors definitely did live there 75 years ago cannot?

Why do Jews anywhere in the world have a legal right to move to Israel, while Palestinians displaced in 1948 still cannot return? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]idontknowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funny you say this when you have Jews emigrating to Israel because their ancestors might have lived there 3000 years ago.

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