Richard Seymour pictures what the BBC cannot picture . – Once again, Ulster’s peace-loving bampots determined that such violence could only have been brought to Northern Ireland by brown-skinned interlopers. Never mind that the province has its own gory history of knife violence . Never mind that Ogilvie himself had previously been tortured by a gang linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force, the loyalist paramilitaries that murdered Catholics with the collusion of the British state during the “Troubles.” – To an extent, as Séamas O’Reilly argues in the New Statesman , this is a new expression of old violence: loyalists in Northern Ireland have decades of experience in burning people out of their homes and violently policing community purity. – Among all demographics in Northern Ireland, Catholic or Protestant, young or old, anti-immigrant racism is pervasive . – Far from “two tier policing” disadvantaging whites, the evidence...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51