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tiarnanabhfainni · 1 year ago

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It’s incredible how everything I learn about Irish, Welsh and Manx history makes me wish the entirety of the parliament would collapse into a sinkhole and flood from the Thames with all those cunts in it and that Buckingham would collapse with that entire lineage of shit inside

yeah basically 👍

#i will say that while this is true and i will always back sinking parliament #i feel that nationalist histories of the constituent nations of the UK (or former constituent nations)#often underplay their own colonial role in the british empire #which doesn't undermine the horrors endured but it is another aspect of history that i wish we paid more attention to #that web of complicity #e.g. irish and welsh soldiers in the british imperial army #(and don't talk to me about 'they were all anglo-irish' bc it's not fucking true)#although the last time i talked about this on my blog someone got really mad at me for calling the irish in america colonisers #like yes im aware that they were fleeing the famine and had little other choice #i am not judging them #but the fact is that they then proceeded to live on stolen land #im not making a moral judgement i am just noting that there is a complicated history #“anon please ignore the rambling im doing in the tags here! it's not actually aimed at you”

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