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I didn’t know today’s ten year olds watched the Simpsons.

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This stuff is coming from the internet — I’ve seen slurs shouted on the Luas that belong in pre civil rights era U.S. – they’re out of context and can only be coming from somewhere else.

I didn’t think Ireland would soak this stuff up like a sponge, but I suppose we’ve an element who want to be little shithead rednecks, and now that this toxic bullshit is being promoted so heavily online, they’re jumping on board.

It’s sad to see, but I think there’s an element in Ireland that just seem to be attracted to this stuff like a moth to a flame.

I remember as a kid in the 90s someone literally hurling “you don’t have a mammy and a daddy” at a kid in our class who revealed she was adopted. They taunted her in the yard until she broke down and attacked anyone who tried to defend her.

I remember a group of Irish teens deciding to scream abuse at a female friend of mine when we were out shopping – called her an “ugly bitch” and started making dog barking sounds. She’s quite good looking, but has short hair and piercings, and they were teenage girls!

One of my oldest relatives was describing the abuse herself and her sister used to get because she wore trousers in the early 1950s – the usual “characters” in rough parts of central Dublin pointing at her, harassing her and shouting out the window “get them off ya Mrs!” and “ya look like an auld fella!”

Another relative literally had her windows put in for living with her boyfriend in the late 50s – also in central Dublin.

Ireland has a very aggressive element of street bullies, and they’re turning to racism and homophobia at the moment because they’re just drinking it up online and spreading it around their brazen pack like groups.

People are genuinely afraid of them and don’t stand up and they’re usually little thugs and there are probably even legal ramifications for standing up too aggressively too.

I think sometimes we live in a bubble of brushing this shit off – it’s way off the scale and it’s utterly brazen at times. People put up with far too much.