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Jump To Comment: 5 4 3 2 1Very good article on this point in today's (Wed) Irish News by Brian Feeney - will post it here if I get it in soft copy form.
Essentially the unionist view of multiculturalism is the apartheid view. We must be tolerant of intolerance. In other words, Orangeism is an expression of Protestant culture and to oppose the Orange order is to oppose Protestant Culture. Neat. In effect opposing sectarianism is to be intolerant of the ‘feelings’ of others. Also, unionism sees this as part of the diversity of 'British' culture: there are Pakistani British, Indian British, Muslim British and so on – all unified in veneration of a sovereign “BEING PROTESTANT” (as the Orange Order puts it, capitalisation and all).
In this view the unionists are just another version of what it means to be British, and everyone in this context is tolerant of 'difference' (the irritating fact that Pakistanis, Indians, Nigerians, Kenyans, Tanzanians, etc, (like the Irish) fought for and won national self-determination in their own countries tends to be ignored).
There is another irritating fact. The name of the state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, excludes the possibility of Irish people (north or south) being British. This too is ignored. This is not a principle with me, however. People can call themselves whatever they want as far as I am concerned.
In practice of course unionist political culture tends to be the least tolerant, with organised attacks on non-white people (as well as nationalists) from unionist paramilitaries and ridiculous opposition to the building of a Mosque from specifically unionist councillors. Unionist councils in the North tend to be the most sectarian. Where nationalists are in a majority, power sharing tends to be the norm. Where unionists are in the majority, majority sectarian rule tends to be the norm. Unionists usually counter this argument with the observation that nationalists can be racist, sectarian, etc, too. True, but not the point. Unionism tends to organise intolerance to the extent that nationalism, by and large, does not.
By way of (another Nelson McCausland) example: the real Nelson McCausland, when an Education (sic) Officer in the Orange Order opined that Roman Catholics are not Christians (he was serious) and, in his DUP local councillor guise, opposed Belfast City Council grant aiding a ‘Celtic Film Festival’ because “This is not a Celtic country”. It is little wonder that the running of the state of Northern Ireland had to be wrenched away from the pedantic grip such political neanderthals. Unfortunately, political progress must await the dawning of the light of political reason within unionism, which may occur soon after hell freezes over.
So, I would say that Jim Dixon’s views are not an aberration. They are part of a continuum of unionist ideas and attitudes.
There you have it, just a view.
Interesting subject. I may write more on this.
Where safe to do so Protestants express oppositon to Protestant = British
Extract from "Laws" of Orange Order - very 'multicultural'
Did unionism ever embrace muli-culturalism and pluralist politics?
I remember a quote from the 1991 from then UUP member and North Belfast councillor Nelson McCausland..which said that there was enough trouble from the Catholic 'minority' in n.Ireland with out bringing in other minorities to cause trouble.
Pluralism : in political science, the view that decision-making in current liberal democracies is the outcome of competition among several interest groups in a political system characterised by free elections, representative institutions, and open access to the organs of power. This concept is opposed by corporatism and other approaches that view power as centralised in the state and its principal elites (the Establishment).
I am waiting for any section of unionism to embrace the ideas of pluralism, yet unionist politicians do seem to use the term 'plural society'. in televised or newpaper debates.
Unioinist political history can be described as anti-pluralism. Are the DUP and UUP advocating a policy change?
We need to know more about this side of unionism. We are sadly ignorant here in the South about our near neighbours, the unionists. This kind of politics would not get elbow room down here, but within unionism there seems to be toleration of a widely diverse species of intolerance. Why doesn’t our media report this more? I find it puzzling.
I suppose acceptance of racist sectarian unionists is just part of the tolerant fabric of our multicultural pluralist, etc, society.
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