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Most Oppressed People Ever (MOPE)

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Whataboutery in Ireland / Norn Irn / 'Here'
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What sustains it?
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Pan-Nationalist Front kept it going (Hume/Adams)
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Most Oppressed People Ever (MOPE)
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"a victim status can be both functional and empowering"
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"an invincible belief in Erin's wrongs"
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"Ignorance in relation to histories of other nations"
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"laced with aggressive self-righteousness"
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"the role of self-delusion in Irish history"
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Exaggeration of social grievances for national ends
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nationalists dismiss the problem of ethnic diversity in Ireland
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1) Straw man argument. 2) You don't compare Oppresion. You destroy it.
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An attempt to demean or mock the oppression people did face
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It's not paranoia if they are out to get you
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Douglas Hyde was first President
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Basically failed to attract ANY Protestants to Nationalism
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Believing its own propaganda
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Politically legitimized a thirty year long campaign of terror
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