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The orange order kept it going

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Whataboutery in Ireland / Norn Irn / 'Here'
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What sustains it?
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The orange order kept it going
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"Closed shop" that gave Protestants contacts unavailable to Catholics
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Anti-Catholic oath and attitudes
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Links to loyalist bands
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Loyalist members commemorated in marches
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Loylaist emblems at marches
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Minted a coin after they "won" first Drumcree
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Official link to UUP
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Provocative parade routes
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Violence when they didn't get what they wanted
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Right to damn an ideology on basis of its inherent flaws
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Ignorance in relation to their own history, and their neighbours?
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Religion adds a cultural legacy and bitterness to colonial problem
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Why then no 'Troubles' in Germany or Switz, or other mixed countries?
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It was religious belief that started it
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"laced with aggressive self-righteousness"
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Wrong to damn a political ideology on the tactics of some adherents.
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To blame only triggermen - cowardly. For one side only -hypocrisy.
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Slugger O'Toole perpetuates it
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Both sides suffer from the Prisoners Dilemma
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Pan-Nationalist Front kept it going (Hume/Adams)
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The British Government perpetuated it
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The Paisleyites perpetuated it
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