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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
A colleague at work's a NI Unionist from Derry. Sample size of one ofc but at work he claims to be inclusive and supportive of minorities but after a few pints all the bigotry and hatred of foreigners comes out. I'm wondering if he was deeply traumatised by Bloody Sunday as a young boy - he seems disconnected from feelings for fellow human beings.
I don't think Unionists were traumatised by the Derry massacre of 1972. (I tend not to call it Bloody Sunday, as that term rightly belongs to the fighting of 21 November 1920 in Dublin, when Collins's IRA murdered a number of British officers and British and Irish police machine-gunned a football crowd at Croke Park.)
I do remember sitting at dinner at the Royal Dublin Society with the editor of the Irish Times and a bunch of other people and a Unionist professor from the North lurched over from another table and, having had a few, started going, 'Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right.' It's never far below the surface. If May thinks she can open that can of worms at will, she's an idiot.