political violence

The real question for American militants on both sides, but mainly White : do you want to fight or not?

Brian Walker on January 23, 2021, 2:01 pm

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The more urgent question is not what has made America become so polarised but why it hasn’t broken out into continuous ethnic violence. The sight of “America’s burning” in police and race riots and all those weird white guys armed to the teeth add up to a potent threat, if episodes like Charlottesville and the Capitol storming are joined up into continuous action. The US’ s rhetoric of law and order so stoutly professed by Republicans in particular will …

Room for a unionist elephant or two?

John Ó Néill on April 13, 2011, 10:45 pm

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When it comes to unionism, there are numerous elephants that follow them into the debate around violence on the political stage. Invoking morality as a counter argument to the deployment of violence in the political arena jars considerably with the history of unionism. Once ‘Irish’ unionism became a failed political entity (as it didn’t find sufficient electoral support in Ireland), ‘Ulster’ unionism rose on the back of overt and implied threats of violence if a Home Rule Bill was passed …