Which Side Do You Support in NI?

[H. Ross Peron]

Loyalist for me.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

tiocfaidh ár lá

[tpfkaw]

The non-fascists who don't secretly/openly want people like me dead.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I don't "take sides" in conflicts like this, though I admit I tend to have more sympathy for the nationalists.

[DC Al Fine]

Unionists

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

There's only one right answer for an American who's ~1/6 Irish, and that choice is obvious.

[afleitch]

The side of the people that just want to live their lives and not be defined by their community, be able to live in any area, walk down any street and want Northern Irish politicians to be concerned with the economy, jobs and healthcare rather than factionalist matters.

[hawkeye59]

The side of the people that just want to live their lives and not be defined by their community, be able to live in any area, walk down any street and want Northern Irish politicians to be concerned with the economy, jobs and healthcare rather than factionalist matters.

This, but if I had to choose, whatever the majority of the Northern Irish support, which is unionist.

[Peter the Lefty]

The people that were there first.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Unionist (Protestant)

[TNF]

Republican, of course.

[Supersonic]

Duh. Unionist.

[Dr. Cynic]

Republican. (Even though I'm neither Irish nor Catholic)

[Leftbehind]

More so Republicans.

[PJ]

I'm a deist, what do I do???

[TNF]

I'm a deist, what do I do???

The ultimate moderate hero religion.

[afleitch]

I'm a deist, what do I do???

The ultimate moderate hero religion.

Alliance Party then

[Incipimus iterum]

Loyalist/Unionist

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The side of the people that just want to live their lives and not be defined by their community, be able to live in any area, walk down any street and want Northern Irish politicians to be concerned with the economy, jobs and healthcare rather than factionalist matters.

If there weren't factional matters, there'd be no politics. You wanna make every government worker unemployed!?

[YL]

Anti-sectarian.

(But if I had to choose, Nationalist, basically by default.)

[Redalgo]

Nationalist/Republican, though I do not care about factional loyalties or the question of independence so much as an end to monarchy.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Americans should be banned from discussing Northern Ireland unless they've passed some kind of exam about recent developments.

To make a very important fact very, very clear:

The civil war is over you fycking idiots.

There are no 'sides'. If that was ever how things worked there (and it wasn't really) it certainly isn't now.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The people that were there first.

The Ulster Protestants (of all shades) have been there for far longer than most white American families have been in the U.S.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

My last major English paper was about a conflict in the world. I chose Northern Ireland. I started off trying to prove my point that the British were the oppressors in NI, but as I actually learned about the conflict, it became clear that NI is and always will be British.

[Phony Moderate]

and always will be British.

Hmmhmm.