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A century ago, Ireland threw off the yoke of racist overlords who sneered at its people as an inferior rabble. Our ancestors endured generations of condescension and brutality, only to forge a Republic built on dignity, self-respect, and a promise that no Irish citizen would ever again be treated as less than human.
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To gaslight a person is to make them feel faulty, to make them doubt their own reality, memory, or perceptions. It is a form of psychological manipulation where the gaslighter seeks to take control of the person and their opinions. Irish politicians including those at the very top have gaslighted the entire Irish nation. It is unbelievable that after centuries of rule by an abusive and racist foreign government that the Irish political establishment, one hundred years later, should engage in the same behaviour. An elitism, different only in that it is not enforced by military might, judicial murder and savagery, but at its heart is a set of post-colonial cultural prejudices. So rampant is it that Irish have a term to describe it, self loathing.
No where is self-loathing more visible than through various commissions of investigation. The government rig the outcome by choosing people to lead the investigation without the required skillset, and the setting of terms of reference to guarantee that the predetermined conclusions. It mostly requires the commissions to fabricate evidence, creating a threshold that most commissioners will not cross. Accordingly when the expected conclusion fail to materialise the politicians issue apologies as if they had been confirmed with the usual ‘we’. We are shamed, we are callous murders, we had a warped attitude.
No other government in world history has declared its own people guilty of crimes they didn’t commit—without trial, without evidence, and with applause. Not even Stalin managed that without falsified documents. While North Korea would not dare galsight their people in a press release.
