I’m not well versed on the political history of modern Ireland, but it’s interesting to hear from people that know what’s going on there. They’re always pointing out that Irish nationalism is not fully aligned with White nationalism — it often allies with non-Whites against it. It even seems some of the leadership of Irish nationalism are sympathetic to Antifa’s ideology, perhaps some Irish nationalists see themselves as something like Palestinians but Catholic and with White skin. In Belfast, it’s the Ulster loyalists doing most of the rioting against the brown invaders, and they’re not the native Irish from what I understand, but rather the descendants of the 17th century Anglo-Scottish colonizers of Northern Ireland — thus not Irish.

So it seems in Belfast, an antifa-aligned form of pseudo-ethnonationalism (Irish nationalists like Damien Dee Fennell and the IRA) is willing to protect black and brown migrants to push back against a White nationalist resistance, represented by these Ulster loyalists (the ones rioting against migrants attacking people).

On a political-ideological level, I’m highly sympathetic to the Irish and an independent, Irish republic. But on the racial level, right now, I have to side with the Ulster loyalists.