Limerick’s mock criminal was given access to the national airwaves last night by RTÉ to continue their ignorant rewrite of Irish history. Mr Blindboy Boatclub (David Chambers) thinks he is possessed of a superior intellect. However, Blindboy is more than an apt moniker because he is in the dark and the darkness is where prejudices lurk, like shivers seeking a spine. Chambers is too lazy to educate himself on many of the topics he considers himself to be an über intellectual. Luckily for him, RTÉ will only give access to the airwaves to people who want to sneer at the Irish, religions and religious people.
Chambers declares at the very start that he does not believe in God, and he finds it hard to impartially evaluate Irish Christian scholastic achievements because of the crimes of the Catholic Church. It is a rare instance of honesty. I have never witnessed a presenter on an RTÉ programme declaring their biases and prejudices at the very start of a programme. However, it is not an unreasonable question to ask, what is the point of making a programme that is not history, merely a narrative constructed from a chain of prejudices.
There is an old saying that people who refuse to use their own mind let others do their thinking for them. Mr Chambers is the exemplar of that aphorism. First, he believes that nuns were like the Butchers of Belsen carrying out a holocaust in Tuam and elsewhere. The nuns were selling the children, who they had not the time to kill, to wealthy American couples. All a complete nonsense that can be spotted by anyone with a half an ounce of sense.
Well 14 grams of sense cannot be found in any of Chamber’s comments on religion or many other topics. He has followers who possess even less intellectual weight and so regard him as an influencer.
I, along with many others, are struggling with the big question, why do the thick rule Ireland at present? The answer must be that village idiots for centuries were marginalised by the people of the village. Nobody in the village paid a blind bit of heed to them. However, along comes Twitter and allows village idiots, not only to find one another but form a community. X is so full of village idiots sneering at people that it is hard to find any quality content. It has become a battle ground with fools rushing in where angels fear to tread. Only a handful of intellectual use X but they are drowned out by the throngs of village idiots who believe themselves to be very smart people.
Smart people do as they have always done; they ignore the idiots. It worked well for millennia, then along came social media.
EJ
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Excellent analysis. Says it all about fake news, RTE.
This ricks of jealousy, you think you are smart, when you are the main idiot of the village as you seem to care so much about them.
An idiot never knows he’s an idiot; that’s his defining talent. You can spot him by the graceless jab, the clunky phrase, the insult that lands with all the finesse of a cow falling down stairs. The educated draw blood with a scalpel; the idiot smears dung with his bare hands and calls it wit.
I’m confused – you seem to accuse ‘Blindboy’ of both stupidity & of broadcasting his false history, specifically about the Catholic mother & baby institutions.
While the number of deaths might not quite meet the definition of ‘genocide’, the official 2021 Irish government report into these horrific crimes says that about 9000 children died from 1922-1999 (c.5 x the mortality rate that would be expected).
So if not genocide, then certainly despicable & deadly crimes, hidden by a protracted conspiracy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54693159.amp
As to the mention of Irish children from Catholic mother & baby institutions being sold to adoptive parents in The US, this too seems to be largely based in reality, as reports of “donations” to the church in exchange for babies date back to at least the 1940s.
It’s interesting to see that your accusations of BB’s “false history” aren’t accompanied by any supporting evidence, but instead you just throw out insults about his intellect & historical accuracy.
Is it possible that you’re the one lacking intellectual rigour & acting out of bias in this case?
The above suggestion of jealousy rings true too.
First, you have been misled by media outlets hungry for sensationalist stories. Second, all have sectarian anti-Catholic bias that is reflected in your own comments.
9,000 babies did not die in Catholic institutions, this is the total figure that includes the secular institutions, chiefly County Homes, where the vast majority of those infants and children died.
257,000 babies died in Ireland during the period covered by the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. Who killed them? They died of the same diseases and conditions as those in mother and baby homes.
All acute hospitals and maternity units, even today, have mortality rates that are a multiple of the average. Why? Many sick people and sick babies die in hospital. It is the most stupid argument that reveals an ignorance of basic mathematics.
Institutions that cater for poor people have higher mortality rates, and that is reflected the world over even today.
The Irish civil service has people like yourself that want to believe in lies. No babies were sold or trafficked. An official at Galway University Hospital wrote a memo for top management where they claimed that 10,000 babies were trafficked from Tuam to the United States. When the commission interviewed the official, they were stum and told the investigators that they had seen only five records.
You would know that if you had read the report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes.
The nun’s had no hand in fostering or adoptions. That was the job of the County Councils.
Clearly your sneers are intended to insult as is my sneer at Blindboy (David Chambers) but you share one thing in common, an unwillingness to do your own thinking. You have to rely on other people to use your mind for you so that you get a false of sense of superiority by hating other people.
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And that’s why he one a prestigious award for this great piece of work. I think your clutching at straws and still trying defend what went on in certain institutions all across the country.
Nonsense. The Irish award gobshites every day. Even a gobshite who has never studied history but uses a quare version of it to sneer at the Irish nation. That is some prestige, alright.