France spent the tenth anniversary of the Bataclan massacre commemorating its sublime evil and worrying about a re-erruption of suicidal Islamism. Ireland’s revolutionary leftists led by Richard Boyd Barrett and Ruth Coppinger spent the same week denouncing the possible deportation of a single illegal immigrant, not because it was not nearly enough, but because it was, well racist.
In the calm, measured and hysterical shriek that we have come to expect and love from Deputy Coppinger, she blamed Irish politicians who “are legitimising racism and the scapegoating of minorities. … demanding that it’s the most important thing to be discussed. They are creating a dangerous environment where there’s been an increase of 24 per cent in racism.”
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