Flags & Culture.....

[Dún Dún]

Saw this on FB this morning, they're animals

[Square Ball]

why do the BBC have to show the Twelfth live? surely all the Orangemen will be out with Diamond Dan and co celebrating Orangefest leaving who to watch it?

and as for some of the bonefires, what would you expect from a pig but a grunt

[BennyCake]

Sun shining and blue skies on the twelfth. Now, there's a first!!

[haveaharp]

What does the law say about incitement to genocide or ethnic cleansing i.e K.A.T ?

[EagleLord]

Sickening that.

[CitySlicker11]

As if it needed any more proving the OO have again shown that they are a backward, sectarian organisation today. Their decision to bus 2 OO lodges from the field to Ardoyne to meet the 4pm deadline set by the parades commission, only to get back on their buses and head back to the field where they had came from.

Not aware of their plans to make it home again later, but this act proves that they would rather march in front of Ardoyne residents rather than their own supporters.

Disgrace.

[ziggysego]

Kate rings Stephen Nolan.

[Agent Orange]

Kate rings Stephen Nolan.

Utter, utter scum.

Fair play to Nolan for showing her up for the bigot that she is.

[bennydorano]

As if it needed any more proving the OO have again shown that they are a backward, sectarian organisation today. Their decision to bus 2 OO lodges from the field to Ardoyne to meet the 4pm deadline set by the parades commission, only to get back on their buses and head back to the field where they had came from.

Not aware of their plans to make it home again later, but this act proves that they would rather march in front of Ardoyne residents rather than their own supporters.

Disgrace.

Sure there was photos of (presumably) Nationalists yesterday with posters saying "see at 4 o clock, ha ha".  I'd have made the effort myself after that! 

[thejuice]

Kate rings Stephen Nolan.

Utter, utter scum.

Fair play to Nolan for showing her up for the bigot that she is.

that's f**king gas.

[barelegs]

I hope this video is accessible.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150909650115756

This fella is videoing a loyalist band stopping to play songs outside a Catholic Church before he's attacked by supporters of the band.

There's more culture in a yoghurt than most of these clowns

[heganboy]

but are you really all that surprised?

Idiots will be idiots

[thejuice]

I don't know if anyone is familiar with Savoj Zizek. I don't fully subscribe to everything he says but his points on tolerance as we understand it today are quite pertinent. Tolerance whether it be in Northern Ireland or in the wider context of Europe and its tolerance of other ethnicities, it's really tolerance from a distance. I will tolerate you so long as I view you denuded of your identity.

The retreat from more substantive visions of justice heralded by the promulgation of tolerance today is part of a more general depoliticization of citizenship and power and retreat from political life itself. The cultivation of tolerance as a political end implicitly constitutes a rejection of politics as a domain in which conflict can be productively articulated and addressed, a domain in which citizens can be transformed by their participation.

http://www.lacan.com/zizek-inquiry.html

[Hardy]

I hope this video is accessible.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150909650115756

This fella is videoing a loyalist band stopping to play songs outside a Catholic Church before he's attacked by supporters of the band.

There's more culture in a yoghurt than most of these clowns

That is truly depressing to watch. I'm talking about the first minute and a half - the fact that people capable of that are capable of the last half minute is not surprising.

They call this culture? The hoors can't even play the "music" in tune.

[seafoid]

I don't know if anyone is familiar with Savoj Zizek. I don't fully subscribe to everything he says but his points on tolerance as we understand it today are quite pertinent. Tolerance whether it be in Northern Ireland or in the wider context of Europe and its tolerance of other ethnicities, it's really tolerance from a distance. I will tolerate you so long as I view you denuded of your identity.

The retreat from more substantive visions of justice heralded by the promulgation of tolerance today is part of a more general depoliticization of citizenship and power and retreat from political life itself. The cultivation of tolerance as a political end implicitly constitutes a rejection of politics as a domain in which conflict can be productively articulated and addressed, a domain in which citizens can be transformed by their participation.

http://www.lacan.com/zizek-inquiry.html

That's a good point.

This is an interesting article on Zizek.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jul/12/violent-visions-slavoj-zizek/