Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?
by disgruntledphd2 on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:26AM
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Ah no, the Irish situation is very very different.
For a start, the Ulster Protestants were the majority in NI until this year (100 years after partition).
And while I (as an Irish person) would love to see a united Ireland, I completely condemn the violence that was used to attempt it.
Again, I understand why it happened, but 3.5k deaths over 30 years was not an acceptable price to get to the negotiation table (essentially repeating a deal that was shot down by the Unionists in 1972).
> residents of NI were British citizens at the time
That's how it works for every independence movement - a smaller entity asserts it's right to exist outside the boundary of a larger one. Fighting smaller entity is self-harm by the larger entity.
Look at the Chechen war in Russia, it was the same.