I think the people putting up these flags and the individuals and events celebrated are not subjected to the research and scrutiny as on here
It's all about the bigotry bred into them from birth
The ones who have some sort of individual character and lateral thinking soon detach themselves from it and feel quite embarrassed with the whole thing
I would like to see some stats on what percentage of the prodestant community participate
Agree wholeheartedly, I'm republican and engaged in (
legal) republican activism and the vast majority are decent people but there are plenty of loons on the republican side too. Personally, I abhor the "protestants are bad" cr@p. There's good and bad everywhere.
I was at a Wolfe Tones concert a while back and there was a woman giving off stink about protestant this and orange that. I asked her what she was listening to and she said "some great f**kin rebel tunes" so, hoping for a slightly deeper response, I asked who the band were, she looked slightly puzzled and said the Wolfe Tones. I said aye, named after Wolfe Tone, the founder of modern Irish republicanism who was cut of the same protestant cloth as your mouthing off about. She just looked stunned.
Unfortunately, ignorance isn't a weakness of just one community.