Keith Woods is a YouTuber, podcaster, and podcaster from Ireland. He is a self-taught podcaster with a love for the Irish language, culture, and history. In this episode, we talk about the current state of Irish culture and politics.
00:01:00.140Yeah, that was a bit of a black pill, to be honest.
00:01:02.160Oh, no. So what happened when you got the results? Did your heart sink?
00:01:07.940Well, you know, there was none of the bad ones. I mean, you know, it's not the worst, you know, English and Irish. I'll take that.
00:01:13.840You know, plus now, you know, the the Anglosphere will accept me in as well, which is which is a nice way to get my foot in the door.
00:01:20.780But yeah, no, I don't. I don't speak Irish. Most people I know don't speak Irish, except for Irish has kind of basically been confined to
00:01:29.720smaller, sort of sparsely populated parts of Ireland, mostly like the West Coast or the Northwest, Donegal, Guailtux, they call them Irish speaking regions.
00:01:41.140But yeah, the language is really on the decline. But it never it never really became, you know, the dream was for her to become the the was to replace English.
00:01:51.600But it never really happened. And, you know, one of the big things was, you know, the people that started the revolution in the early 20th century, it actually it's interesting how it started.
00:02:01.940I mean, before the, you know, the violent revolution of 1916, it basically came out of a language movement.
00:02:08.280People like Douglas Hyde and these people that wanted to revive unique Irish culture and started with things like the Gaelic League, which want to bring back the Irish language and then Gaelic Athletic Association.
00:02:20.660And started, you know, creating our own sports and stuff. And it was it was the cultural revolution that created the violent revolution.
00:02:28.080But the problem really, you know, I'm sure what a lot of what we'll be talking about tonight, the problem really stems from the fact that after the revolution, we really lost the best revolutionaries, the idealistic nationalists in the war.
00:02:42.120And we're basically left with conservative reactionaries. And that's kind of how the country has been run since.
00:02:47.800So, you know, while on paper, we got our independence and stuff, most nationalists would feel that we, you know, we never really we never really got that victory.
00:02:58.260And the ideals of of people like Porrick Pierce and James Connolly and these people from 1916 have never really been realized.
00:03:25.580I'd say, you know, identitarian or nationalist.
00:03:31.640I mean, a lot of times these things mean different things, different people.
00:03:36.100I might say something like a social nationalist or a national socialist, something along those lines.
00:03:42.100Yeah, that's what I that's what I gathered right away.
00:03:44.080Exactly. Because I know there's different types of nationalists.
00:03:46.380I think in Europe, they're not afraid of socialism because they've had socialism for so long,
00:03:51.220whereas a lot of there's a lot of nationalists, well, identitarians in America, not so much, but there are there's a nationalist scene in America.
00:03:57.500They hear the word socialism and they shriek, you know, but there can be a good version of it.
00:04:03.240Of course, we don't have that right now.
00:04:04.840But Ireland is a country that I've been to several times.
00:04:25.500Tell us what what you've seen growing up in Ireland and how much it's changed.
00:04:30.760Yeah, I mean, yeah, even though I'm quite young, I've actually noticed a massive difference even in my own life.
00:04:38.400I mean, the town, you know, the town I grew up in when I was younger was just overwhelmingly, I mean, there was maybe a handful of non-Irish people and everyone knew their names.
00:04:48.160And, you know, literally in the last decade now, you go back and it's full of like, you know, not just European migrants either, but there's, you know, the town I'm from without giving too much away.
00:04:59.320There's like there's many Roma gypsies living there.
00:05:02.000And not only are they living there, but they're being provided housing by the local councillor at a time when we have officially 10,000 homeless people in Ireland and there's a housing crisis.
00:05:13.060But immigration is not a topic that's on the table.
00:05:18.880And so in all these, you know, the big issues is, you know, we have wealth, but the problem, we have a housing crisis.
00:05:24.860We have a problem with our health care system, which is in large part due to overcrowding, you know, lack of beds in public hospitals.
00:05:33.380And immigration is a huge factor in all of these things.
00:05:36.660But, you know, at least in the UK, you can actually talk about immigration.
00:05:41.420I mean, I'm not a fan of Nigel Farage, but maybe the, you know, the one impact of the whole Brexit debate and the introduction of UK into sort of mainstream UK politics is that immigration is a topic that can be discussed.
00:05:55.820I mean, you even have people like David Cameron and Ed Miliband were apologizing for the previous amounts of mass immigration.
00:06:03.420But that's not at all the case in Ireland.
00:06:05.340If you, I mean, you can't bring it up in good company.
00:06:07.680If you, if you brought, if you were to, if you were to bring that up on a, you know, popular news time discussion here or something, you wouldn't be invited back on.
00:06:28.520I mean, yeah, most Irish people are, are pretty based.
00:06:31.820Like the, I definitely, the PC thing definitely hasn't, hasn't quite worked yet.
00:06:36.940But I mean, all of this has happened so fast.
00:06:39.660Like you have to think in 1992, homosexuality was still illegal in this country.
00:06:45.640And a few years ago, it was the first country to vote to legalize gay marriage in a referendum.
00:06:51.280So the changes have been so sweeping, they've come so fast.
00:06:55.840And, you know, I do feel in a lot of ways, Ireland is kind of a test case for the globalists because, you know, as you say, it does have this rich history and rich tradition.
00:07:05.340And everyone is, is familiar with that.
00:07:09.880And I do feel like this would be a great prize for the globalists if in basically one generation, they could completely reorient that traditional society into the centerpiece of globalism, which is what it is becoming.
00:07:24.520But yeah, the older generation definitely don't care about this stuff.
00:07:28.360But at the same time, you know, my generation has, has, is really swallowing it up wholesale, you know, and the, the indoctrination is really working well.
00:07:38.440And I do think a big part of that is, you know, it's different in the U.S.
00:07:43.140Because in the U.S. now you have a case where this generation is, is worse off than their parents, which is quite a thing.
00:07:50.580And that leads to all kinds of social effects.
00:07:53.400But in Ireland, you know, there are people now putting their kids through college whose kids are going and getting pretty decent jobs that weren't finishing high school 30 years ago.
00:08:04.040So people, people do witness the, the big economic changes.
00:08:08.860And I think because of that, they're willing to tolerate more of the pause that they otherwise wouldn't be.
00:08:13.800Oh, yeah, but there's also a lot of really poor people.
00:08:18.380I know as people are documenting there as a lot of these so-called refugees and migrants are coming in and getting all the stuff in Ireland.
00:08:24.800There's a lot of struggling Irish people, like there's a lot of poverty still there, right?
00:08:31.860I mean, you know, Ireland is, is like a typical sort of modern neoliberal economy.
00:08:36.960Like there was a, I saw something there today, there's a recent economic test done in Ireland is like per capita, the second most productive economy in the world.
00:08:47.020But I mean, that doesn't translate at all on the ground.
00:08:51.500The thing is, there's an awareness, you know, we hear so much about how strong the economy is and whatnot.
00:08:56.980And people, it does breed a fear into people because there is that fear of, you know, going back to the dark ages when everyone was supposedly so poor and miserable.
00:09:06.960But we have this great economy on paper, you know, booming GDP growth.
00:09:11.140And we've got Google and PayPal and all these platform capitalism companies in the center of Dublin, all these multinationals, you know, pharmaceutical companies, whatnot.
00:09:24.280I mean, I think 90 plus percent of Google's employees in Ireland are non-Irish.
00:09:29.760Most of these companies don't actually pay tax to the state.
00:09:32.680I mean, you know, if you want an example of how ridiculous this scenario gets, the European Commission ruled that Apple hadn't paid us 13 billion euros in tax that they just avoided and ruled that they had to pay it to us.
00:09:47.360And all of the establishment parties are actually fighting that and appealing it.
00:10:13.160But yeah, I mean, even if, even with, you know, there's high employment and everything else, but, you know, you're showing images of Dublin there.
00:10:20.180Like Dublin is, Dublin has the third highest rents of any city in the world.
00:10:26.100And one of the, one of the consequences as well of the, of the bank bailout in 2008 is we have one of the highest levels of debt.
00:10:35.020If you add public and private debt, we're one of the most indebted countries in the world.
00:10:38.640And, uh, and the other thing is that one of the effects of this was that, uh, in response to, you know, the bad lending by banks is that, uh, to get a mortgage on a house.
00:10:49.260Now you need like a 15% deposit in cash.
00:10:52.000So, you know, a huge amount of people have just been completely squeezed out of even the potential of everyone in a house.
00:10:58.040So what you get now is just basically everyone finishes school and goes to college and does whatever liberal arts degree and goes and works for one of these global home or corporations for 20, 25,000 a year.
00:11:11.800And, you know, spends huge amounts on rent in Dublin in multicultural city and doesn't have a prospect of, of owning a home unless they're, unless they have wealthy parents to put down a deposit.
00:11:24.960So, uh, the economy isn't at all what it seems on paper.
00:11:29.600And as I said, at the same time, there's a huge housing crisis, which is in large part caused by immigration.
00:11:44.400So how, where did that transition you think happen into this liberal kind of open borders, Marxist country that it's becoming?
00:11:52.940Um, well, I guess you could, you could maybe trace it to the seventies when Ireland joined the European, uh, economic community, but more so in the 1990s.
00:12:04.400In the 1990s, there was a clear move towards this neoliberal development strategy where we become basically a tax, a tax haven for multinational corporations.
00:12:16.380And one of the, one of the things about Ireland, it's, it's a consequence of the civil war is we never had, we never had a leftist party.
00:12:24.180We never had a strong, we never, politics was never ideological.
00:12:28.100The two parties, I mean, up until the eighties and nineties, they were getting between 80 and 85% of the vote.
00:12:35.880Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil basically don't have any fundamental differences ideologically.
00:12:40.560They've always been kind of wherever the, the majority were on social issues, you know, they've always been sort of conservative center right.
00:12:48.820Um, and that had its own, that had its own consequences because, because there was such a, you know, the two parties hate each other because they came out of opposite sides of a civil war.
00:12:58.160And it really lended itself to sort of auction politics and sort of rule by, I guess, bureaucrats or technocrats where, you know, there was all these kind of meaningless disputes between these parties.
00:13:13.440And at the same time, who was really deciding our fate were, were civil servants and economists.
00:13:18.360And there was a, there was a conscious move in the nineties to, uh, have a developmental strategy that was completely reliant on, on attracting finance capital.
00:13:28.500And so corporation tax was lower over the course of a few years from 40% to 12 and a half percent.
00:13:35.240And, uh, you know, that coincided with, uh, an investment in education.
00:13:39.840There was an educated workforce at the same time, you know, we're a part of the, the EU.
00:13:44.480So it became the ideal place for these, uh, big tech companies like Google and Facebook to establish themselves and other multinational companies, you know, Pfizer, Intel, these kinds of companies.
00:13:55.960And so, uh, pretty much all of our economic growth has come from, uh, making ourselves subservient to finance capitalism.
00:14:05.440And at the same time, we've sort of given up on any industrial development or any economy aside from that.
00:14:10.600And that definitely has social effects.
00:14:12.680You know, when you're completely reliant basically on globalism and on neoliberalism, it really, it really ties your hands in a lot of way.
00:14:20.140And it really changes the course of, of certain, of certain conversations.
00:14:34.620Sinn Féin are, they're an interesting case.
00:14:38.700I mean, that's the two parties there, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael.
00:14:41.860So they're the two center-right parties that have sort of had a monopoly on power since the foundation of the state.
00:14:47.180But, uh, Fianna Fáil lost a lot of support in 2008 because, uh, you know, the result of this.
00:14:55.100Massive economic growth and speculation and switch to, uh, finance capitalism and a property bubble was a complete collapse.
00:15:03.820And while we did benefit enormously from the EU in terms of, uh, capital spending by the EU on our, you know, roads and rail and infrastructure and such, and on their investment in agriculture.
00:15:15.540Uh, we actually, we put more back into the EU in one night than we received in 30 years in 2009 because we bailed out.
00:15:23.180Uh, we guaranteed, uh, our banks here that had 65 billion euros worth of, uh, private banking debt.
00:15:29.820Uh, and that was at, uh, orders of the ECB.
00:15:32.460And if you look at some of the private bondholders that were guaranteed, uh, you know, it's, it's these, these private equity firms, like, uh, there's a Rothschild private equity firm.
00:15:42.100It's all these, you know, again, massive finance capitalists that invested in these, in these bad banks that were tied up to the Irish property bubble.
00:15:49.740Uh, so the Irish people ended up bailing out these Swiss and German banks.
00:15:55.020It was done at the behest of the ECB to maintain the stability of the euro.
00:15:59.900So, uh, that was a pivotal point in history that kind of, but that was the moment that cost the monopoly of power of these two parties, because it basically ended Fianna Fáil for a few years.
00:16:11.540And then Fine Gael came into government and, you know, they might've been popular, but while they were recovering the economy again, they had a development strategy in terms of getting out of recession.
00:16:23.380That was completely reliant on just basically moving further into neoliberalism.
00:16:27.500And that brought with it all these social crises, like, you know, the crisis in the health service and housing, et cetera.
00:16:34.140So there was going to be a big populous shift in this election and it happened to go to Sinn Féin, which if you know the history of Sinn Féin is itself quite radical because I mean, uh, it's not too long ago, 30, 40 years ago, leaders of Sinn Féin were executing people in
00:16:54.060That's not an exaggerating party leader.
00:16:56.940Um, but Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin have capitalized on populist sentiments and they've actually capitalized on nationalist sentiments.
00:17:06.140There's still this perception among a lot of people in Ireland that Sinn Féin are a nationalist party.
00:17:11.140And a part of that is that immigration isn't discussed.
00:17:13.820So no one really knows anyone's policy on immigration because, you know, I watched three debates before this election and immigration wasn't mentioned once.
00:17:23.380So there's a perception, you know, Sinn Féin are the IRA party.
00:17:27.820So there's a perception that Sinn Féin are hardcore Irish nationalists that are going to stick it to the establishment.
00:17:34.500I mean, you have to think how uneducated the average voter is.
00:17:38.420And I heard a lot of people my age were voting for Sinn Féin and it was that sentiment of, well, these people will stand up for the Irish.
00:17:46.540And, you know, you know what that means when you hear it.
00:17:48.580But obviously, you know, with them in government, people are going to realize that it's a very different story.
00:18:23.700I mean, what does your average person do when they hear that?
00:18:28.060Yeah, I wish I knew why that was so controversial.
00:18:30.660I mean, but this is the thing as well is that Sinn Féin are, you know, the party of Bobby Sands and of these people that just as recent as the 1980s were fighting the British in the north and going on hunger strike.
00:18:45.000And if you read any of these people, even they're explicitly ethno-nationalist.
00:18:49.680You know, Bobby Sands has quotes that are effectively Ireland for the Irish and that are effectively, you know, I'm fighting explicitly to have a country for the Irish people.
00:19:00.740And the fact that people are trying to wash over it now is insane.
00:19:07.440I mean, it's so it's so deeply written into our history.
00:19:09.620So you do see them now trying to change the historical narrative.
00:19:14.160I mean, you know, it's always been conceived of that our war of independence was a national struggle for the Irish people.
00:19:21.400But now they're trying to even sort of internationalize that and that anymore.
00:19:26.000It's not about Irish people versus British Empire.
00:19:30.540Now it's about oppressor versus oppressed.
00:19:33.220And it was this kind of, you know, now it's this kind of universal struggle.
00:19:37.080And he even see when they talk about the north of Ireland and the conflict there, because it happened in the 1960s and such, they always try and compare it to the civil rights struggle in the US in the 60s.
00:19:48.820That, oh, the, you know, the nationalists in the north were basically, you know, they were like the blacks in the south and they were denied equal rights.
00:19:56.980And so that was the source of this conflict.
00:19:59.160But in every historical narrative of the establishment, there's always one lesson.
00:20:04.180And the lesson is always that ethnocentrism is the worst inimaginable and is going to lead to a Holocaust.
00:20:32.100You don't hear about any of your true history of slavery or all the horrible things that the Irish people have gone through and the ways that you've been oppressed, right?
00:20:41.880Yeah, but it's funny how, you know, for every country, there's a different narrative that sort of suits the people there.
00:20:50.080So for us, it's not about white privilege or, well, to an extent it is now in the last few years.
00:20:56.640But for the most part, the narrative they go with is that, well, you know, we were immigrants and, you know, we went to we went to all these places.
00:21:04.760You know, we went to the United States.
00:21:08.340Not mentioned that we went there in prison ships or, you know, in the case of the U.S., that it was, you know, effectively a white ethnostate.
00:21:17.140And there was there was obviously integration there.
00:21:20.320But, yeah, the narrative is that, you know, us migrating to the U.S. 200 years ago is identical to the immigration that's going on now.
00:21:29.600And that because we have ancestors that immigrated to the United States, we have a responsibility to take infinity Africans.
00:21:37.040So, you know, but it just shows how that these narratives don't mean anything to them because, you know, they'll say they'll say one thing to defend the case to a British person.
00:21:49.520They'll say it's because you had empire.
00:21:51.240And then they'll say to an Irish person, it's because you didn't have empire.
00:21:54.980It's because you were part of an empire.
00:21:56.340That's why you have to to take these migrants.
00:22:36.300Diversity is at the core of what it means to be Irish.
00:22:39.320We hope that this hearing will assist us, the state and civil society, to see a path forward to addressing the challenge we face in combating racism and discrimination.
00:23:10.380The thing about these people is I see them on Twitter and actually see them on television here a lot.
00:23:15.320There's like there's three or four of them, these these strong African women.
00:23:19.700And they all they all have they all have educational backgrounds.
00:23:24.000That's like M.A. in equality studies or M.A. in anti-whiteness or whatever.
00:23:30.520But they all they all get invited on television the whole time.
00:23:33.000Like there's one of them, Ibn Joseph, and she's like she's on TV like pretty much once a week on one of the main political talk shows.
00:23:42.740And it's like she just gets like five minutes at the end of every show to berate Irish people and no one ever challenges her.
00:23:49.840And it's like, who does she represent?
00:23:52.600Like, you know, if we're meant to have a fair political discussion, I mean, you know, you'll never see a nationalist get a word in.
00:24:00.580And it's like if you look at the organic audiences, I mean, look at something like YouTube or Twitter and the prominent the prominent political voices in Ireland or nationalist voices.
00:24:10.840But then, you know, when it's mainstream TV, it's all these these people that get by on on fake credentials, M.A. in equality studies.
00:24:20.260And they're allowed to go on TV and peddle this message that no one wants to hear.
00:24:24.680It's amazing. You know, one stands up to her. No one says is diversity at the core of being African or how about Jewish or Arab or any other people.
00:24:32.760Right. This is only used to European ethnicities.
00:24:36.280I see this kind of stuff in the UK, too, all the time.
00:24:38.680Well, what does it mean? What does it mean to be English?
00:24:41.820Anyone could be English. Now you're getting that to anyone could be Irish.
00:24:45.180You know, well, can I go down to Africa and just be African that I I'm I am the diversity that's at the core of what it means to be African now?
00:24:54.080You know, I mean, aren't most Irish people inside?
00:24:58.200Aren't they livid when they hear something like this?
00:25:00.080Because, I mean, I get livid and I'm not even Irish.
00:25:05.600But then, you know, I look at the last election result and the nationalists got under one percent everywhere they ran.
00:25:12.460And I do wonder, like, what what is it going to take, you know, because, you know, for all for all the Irish have suffered in the past, you know, under Cromwell and the famine and all these things.
00:25:24.520There was always there was always a way back in that, you know, we were still we're still the people occupying the land.
00:25:29.900But, you know, there's there's no way back from this and this, you know, in 30, 40 years of this, it could do it could do more damage than any of those things, because, you know, you can you can come back from from a famine.
00:25:42.060But if you become a minority in your own country, you know, what's what's the way out of that then, except something, you know, something very extreme.
00:25:51.300But I mean, I guess it's the problem for white people ever.
00:25:55.460You know, what is it going to take for for white people to wake up to this?
00:25:58.320It's I just find it incredible sometimes what they can tolerate.
00:26:02.060You know, I look back at when sort of before I was red pill and that I was able to sort of tolerate this stuff and think it was normal.
00:26:09.100But I don't know when you've yeah, when you go to the other side and you look at it, you're like, what will it take?
00:26:18.220Well, we always have to remember that at one point we were completely unaware of these things and we were suckered in by a lot of these messages.
00:26:25.080And then we looked back, you know, once our eyes were open, I can't believe I didn't see that before.
00:26:30.860You know, that's why it is important to have all these voices and people out there.
00:26:33.720And that's why precisely why they don't want these nationalists to speak in Ireland, because it will resound with a lot of people.
00:26:40.300They'll hear the truth and they'll you know, it will enlighten them and change them.
00:26:44.860And that will create a true revolution.
00:26:59.780Anyway, they're talking about his main aim.
00:27:01.780Their main aim is to facilitate mass immigration specifically from Africa.
00:27:06.680And this will go into Ireland, of course, all of Europe.
00:27:08.740But let's just play the clip in educating every younger person on the importance of these issues, just as the envelope that Sean Barrett mentioned.
00:27:18.020And so I think something like that would be a very good idea, not just to justify the aid program.
00:27:23.660No, but to get people to think about the other differently, because.
00:27:29.680As Africa's population doubles, a lot of them, whatever the circumstances will be coming to Europe as economic migrants or as refugees, they will be coming.
00:27:53.820We will need their youthful energy to do stuff.
00:27:58.140So that's just what the economic statistics tell you, the demographic data demands, you know, and demography's destiny.
00:28:04.100Europe and Africa are going to have a very close 21st century.
00:28:08.400The question is, what kind of closeness will it be?
00:28:11.240And these kinds of investments through the aid program, but also into people's minds and ideas about, you know, who we are.
00:28:17.540And, and, and, and less, gives less sucker to the xenophobes and the populists who will, who will, who will otherwise do very well in the political climate over the next couple of decades if we don't get this right.
00:28:30.060They know, they, they know all these leftists, these globalists know that demographics is where it's at.
00:28:35.020So just bring them on into Ireland as fast as possible and just tell them that, you know, it's a good thing.
00:28:41.200You need Africa's exploding population because you're going to just somehow be senile and decrepit.
00:28:45.700And even though you built this great civilization, somehow it's all just going to fall apart, you know, unless you let in.
00:29:37.020You know, whatever structures are in place that are creating that can be changed because those are obviously new structures.
00:29:43.380There's never been a problem before where the population halved in a generation because everyone stopped having kids.
00:29:49.080You know, there's clearly antenatal policies at work here and there's clearly something that could be done about it.
00:29:53.920But, you know, this is this is where the propaganda really comes into play, where these things are seen as just an inevitable historical process.
00:30:01.800And that's always where the brainwashing comes in as well.
00:30:05.040You know, I was reading an article today.
00:30:08.800It was like dispelling five racist myths.
00:30:11.420And one of them was that England has always been populated by English people.
00:30:15.620It started talking about how, you know, the Normans invaded.
00:30:19.540And it's like, you know, just how can anyone buy this stuff?
00:30:22.900But, yeah, I mean, you listen to him there and, yeah, it's all just so inevitable.
00:30:27.400You know, everyone's going to stop having kids.
00:30:29.460We're not going to be able to afford the pensions.
00:30:31.640Africa's population is going to double.
00:30:33.200You know, that's another inevitable thing.
00:30:35.180You know, constant discussion about climate change and the environment and how we're constantly told, you know, this is all political choice.
00:30:42.120You know, this isn't an inevitable natural process.
00:32:23.980But I always wonder, too, like this prick who was just talking, does he really think it's going to be some big kumbaya fest if he just brings in the entire third world into Ireland?
00:32:32.080Like, is this going to be just love and peace and just prosperity like Ireland has never seen before?
00:32:37.920I mean, does he really believe that, though?
00:32:40.020You know, because it seemed like more he's like, I want to stick it to those xenophobes and I'll be hiding here in my gated community.
00:32:48.080Yeah, no, I definitely I definitely think a big part with these people is is just a sort of revolutionary spirit and sticking it to their political enemies.
00:32:57.340But I mean, you know, that's the thing as well.
00:32:59.780It's like the discussion about this is always like it's going to be difficult.
00:33:04.120And, you know, this has never worked anywhere.
00:33:06.360We've tried it before, but we can make it work if we try here.
00:33:09.080And it's like, you know, it wouldn't the easiest thing just be to not attempt it.
00:33:13.940You know, if these people are going to attempt so much are going to undergo so much racism and everything, you know, wouldn't the easiest thing just be to to separate?
00:33:22.720Because, you know, white people are so racist.
00:33:25.040And, you know, at least until we start our racism out, wouldn't the easiest thing just be to not subject these people to it?
00:34:07.200I mean, if you follow this woman's Twitter, I mean, first of all, OK, she's a doctor, she's a PhD.
00:34:11.220But like when I look at her Twitter, like there's like she can't spell it a tweet right.
00:34:15.700There's like constant grammar mistakes and stuff.
00:34:17.560So but supposedly she got her PhD in an Irish university.
00:34:20.260So I'd like to see what goes like how these things happen.
00:34:24.300You know, there's so many of these supposed academics that have just popped up in the last few years that are borderline illiterate and clearly low IQ.
00:34:33.700But I mean, this like these people, they're just you know, she is obsessed with race and with finding racism.
00:34:39.700And again, it gets back to this thing.
00:34:44.080Ebon, you know, you'd just be happier to go back to Africa.
00:34:46.240I mean, if she's like she's encountering racism everywhere, she can't go into a hotel without the people working there cocking up a plot to to remind her she's black by serving her by serving her fruit juice, which I'm not even I'm not even sure what I'm thinking was behind that.
00:35:22.420Yeah, I wonder what kind of what PhD do you know what she has?
00:35:27.860Obviously, they just kind of let some of these grades slide and look the other way for some of these people, you know, because if she's a real doctor, look out.
00:35:35.700I wouldn't want someone like this operating on me.
00:36:03.620Just hold it for them and then they'll give you 10 million dollars.
00:36:07.020Yeah, so she can she can she comes with the degree from the University of Lagos and then they're all coming out of one college as well.
00:36:14.780You know, the one you named earlier as well.
00:36:16.220There's like UCD and it has like it has these MAs and equality studies.
00:36:20.520So I think what's going on is I think there's just like some woke lectures there that set up these set up these courses and then, you know, target women like these and just kind of hand them a PhD for doing for compiling statistics on domestic abuse or something.
00:36:38.220That's that's what it looks like to me.
00:36:39.600I know these people have done any serious research.
00:36:41.880When you look into it, it's it is this kind of thing, you know, compiling statistics on race and stuff.
00:36:47.600None of it's very impressive. And it's it seems to me that they're just basically getting handed MAs and doctorates, which really calls into question the university system here as well.
00:36:56.960Oh, yeah. I mean, you know that she's just getting shown in attention just for some diversity quota and she's female.
00:37:02.980I mean, we know this. They do the same thing in America, too.
00:37:06.920Now, you did a couple of good videos to recently about, you know, idiot nationalism.
00:37:10.960So I kind of wanted to get into that and talk about, you know, why the right fails, how conservativism, as you say, is moral impotence.
00:37:21.720Yeah, well, you see, that's that's another one of the things about nationalism in Ireland is like this is all happened so fast that we don't have.
00:37:31.120You know, I look at the U.S., the U.K., people like yourselves, and there's there's much more developed, coherent body of thought around nationalism.
00:37:40.060But because this has popped up in the last decade or two, this is, you know, this is so new and people are very reactive.
00:37:47.500And so what you see a lot is people tend to fall into sort of like based conservatism or civic nationalism or sort of, you know, the kind of Zionist nationalism like anti-Islam.
00:38:01.180And it's because, you know, this is such a unique threat. This is such a new thing.
00:38:05.020People aren't sure how to deal with it.
00:38:06.820There's no there isn't really yet a conception of like a white identity or a collective European identity.
00:38:14.040And so people are people are jumping to all sorts of different things to try and find an answer to it.
00:38:19.800And what you find is that Zionism is is is capitalizing on that as well, because I actually did an expose a while back.
00:38:27.160I couldn't leave it on YouTube. It's on Bitchute.
00:38:29.360But it was I started looking into the Zionist influence on some of the conservative movement in Ireland.
00:38:37.180And it turns out it's pretty much every major conservative figure in Ireland has benefited from Israeli funding or has has visited Israel.
00:38:48.760I mean, that the last article you showed about the Ribena, that's from a site called Gripped.
00:38:53.940And that's basically the only website that reports on this kind of stuff.
00:38:57.540It's the only the only website that reports on immigration on any of these topics.
00:39:03.200But the guy that runs it is a total Zionist.
00:39:06.620And I asked him on Twitter, had he had he benefited from Israeli hospitality?
00:39:10.740And he said he was he said he was proud.
00:39:13.700He was it was public knowledge that he was he was very proud of his his multiple trips to Tel Aviv at the invite of the Israeli justice minister, minister, apparently.
00:39:23.160And it's the same with the you know, there's the Catholic movement here bizarrely.
00:39:27.700You know, there's a website, the newspaper, the Irish Catholic and the editors of that as well are like hyper Zionists.
00:39:34.760And, you know, they get invited to Israel and pictures of them as the Israeli embassy.
00:39:39.960And I'm sure you're familiar with that Al Jazeera documentary before that showed how how Israeli lobbies sort of try and take over these movements.
00:39:49.820And that's definitely happened in Ireland.
00:39:51.840And I also looked at the the youth wings of the establishment political parties and the party that's currently in power.
00:40:00.020I mean, it's going to be out of power now.
00:40:01.180But, you know, the center right neoliberal Fine Gael party, they have like a committee of of people under their young Fine Gael branch, the youth members, you know, the national organizer, all these positions.
00:40:12.800And all of those in the past year have have taken trips to Tel Aviv paid for by the Israeli government.
00:40:18.980So, you know, they're getting their tentacles into these people very young.
00:40:22.740Some of them are only 18, 19 college students.
00:40:25.800And, you know, I was just I was doing research for this.
00:40:28.860I just Googled their name and I Google Israel.
00:40:30.840And for all of them, it's like, oh, I'm so proud to be here in Tel Aviv.
00:40:34.740And they're writing these emotional bits about how much the Israeli people have suffered.
00:40:39.140And it's like these same people will come into government and, you know, pass a bill to bring in another few hundred thousand African migrants into their own country.
00:41:04.020I mean, like, you know, you wonder why they would even go to the length of trying to subvert a movement in a small country like Ireland.
00:41:13.140But, you know, this this this whole battle obviously means a great deal to them on the international scale.
00:41:19.820And they don't they don't want any single country to to embrace ethno nationalism.
00:41:24.680You know, like like the containment strategy in the 60s during the Cold War, you know, that if a country became communist, it could be a bad example.
00:41:33.860So you have to contain it wherever it may be, whether it's Southeast Asia or South America.
00:41:39.020And it seems like the Zionists operate a similar strategy.
00:41:42.140You know, they're they're on the lookout for any any populist websites popping up in Ireland so they can offer them trips to Tel Aviv.
00:41:48.220And it's always it's always the fear of the Holocaust, even though, you know, even though it involved other players and not Ireland, it's still it's always the Holocaust.
00:42:01.500It's like I forget, is it like Israeli?
00:42:04.020Is it like Jews, Jews for Ireland or like Israeli Irish alliance or something?
00:42:09.700And like I just retweeted them and it's like their bio is like we stand for Holocaust education, advocacy for Israel, Israel's right to exist, all this stuff.
00:42:26.080And it's like, you know, that's that's a really interesting set of Irish interests.
00:42:40.680Yeah, you were telling me also before we were recording about Alan Shatter.
00:42:45.060Tell us tell us about him, because that's the beginning of a lot of the immigration woes happen to coincide with this guy who looks like a used car salesman.
00:42:52.620Well, yeah, there's a there's a quote in Ulysses by James Joyce, obviously a very famous literary work from here.
00:42:59.740And one of the characters says, well, he's very proud, you know, he's like, well, Ireland, Ireland never treated the Jews bad.
00:43:08.280And the other character says, well, that's because we never let them in.
00:43:12.420But Alan Shatter is is an interesting case.
00:43:16.220Ireland might be the one country with like with with two population of like two Jews and a Jewish problem.
00:43:22.680But yeah, there's only I think there's only two thousand Jews in Ireland and Alan Shatter was in Fine Gael for a long time.
00:43:33.000For a long time, the only thing he was known for was writing a really smutty novel in the I think was the 80s at a time when Ireland is very conservative.
00:43:41.560And he wrote this really weird, smutty novel about a politician like fucking all his secretaries.
00:43:48.460It was very everyone told us very odd.
00:43:50.120And then the next time he was seen in public life really was when this party came into government after the economic collapse.
00:43:57.760And, you know, it's quite interesting for all the government positions available.
00:44:14.860You know, Ireland's a small, neutral country, but it's it's it's effectively over the the military and arms who we buy arms for whatnot and also immigration and his record as as as minister for justice.
00:44:28.880You know, even if you read his Wikipedia, they say his record is two things, one that he changed the immigration process substantially.
00:44:37.100And the other was his hardcore support for Israel and he had this tendency of labeling popular politicians as anti-Semites and, you know, really using the term sort of viciously and against like left wing activists, anti-racist activists.
00:44:53.540And but he was he was publicly smearing them as anti-Semites and no one ever called him a Jew.
00:44:59.040No one ever pointed out that he was Jewish.
00:45:02.580But, you know, suddenly Ireland, the neutral country, was buying 12 million euros of arms with Israel and selling arms deals with with the Israeli state at a time when, you know, there was a conflict with Gaza going on.
00:45:17.120He was always a great advocate for Israel.
00:45:18.840I think he lived in a kibbutz when he was younger, actually.
00:45:23.180But yeah, his main his main record is immigration.
00:45:26.220And you have to think as well, you know, this, you know, part of the immigration to Ireland could be blamed on the economy and part of it could be blamed on the EU, but not in this case, because he doubled immigration in 2011 from the year previously.
00:45:41.220And that was a time when our economy was absolutely tanked.
00:45:45.520We're undergoing austerity every year to try and fix a massive deficit of billions of euros.
00:45:52.840And we had an unemployment rate that was well over 10 percent, close to 15 percent.
00:45:58.660And in 2011, you know, he's doubling immigration and it's not EU migrants here.
00:46:02.940Most of the migrants he signed off on would be from places like Nigeria, Pakistan, these places.
00:46:10.360So this was clearly politically motivated.
00:46:13.440He also changed the rules around refugees.
00:46:15.720So, you know, again, another one of his legacies was that we started taking far more refugees, especially Syrian refugees.
00:46:21.780And so what we've seen the last few years where they're settling refugees in places of important cultural heritage, places like the Connemara, places like the Gwaeltuct areas, Irish speaking areas, small towns and villages in rural Ireland and populating them with 200, 300, you know, Syrian refugees moving into a village of the same size.
00:47:35.580Yeah, it's like, you know, like if you're if you're unemployed, like you have to go for your meeting every so often to see, you know, your like officer to see if you're still looking for a job or else they'll stop giving you money.
00:47:46.800But if it's like to become a citizen of Ireland, if you don't show up, they'll just post it to you.
00:47:50.760Alan Shatter reminds me of it's like every country you learn when you learn the history of a particular nation all has their heart seller act, if you know what I mean.
00:48:01.460And so Alan Shatter, here we go again.
00:48:03.860You know, there's always a route that you can go to.
00:48:06.700And, you know, I'm sure Alan Shatter is very much Israel first.
00:48:09.760I'm sure he's not talking about refugees and Africans coming into Israel.
00:48:13.900Right. You probably never heard him talk about that.
00:48:16.840Yeah. I mean, the only time you see him now, he's retired.
00:48:19.280But the only time you see him while he's doing two things, he's working for an NGO, which is an Israeli.
00:48:39.020But again, it's never it's it's never mentioned that he's a Jew.
00:48:43.860There'll be someone on that's campaigning for Palestine and Shatter will come on and just attack them and abuse them and call them anti-Semitic and say that they're biased because of their anti-Semitism.
00:48:53.840But no one will mention the fact that he's Jewish.
00:49:17.620No one's going to point out that, well, you have a dog in this fight.
00:49:21.080You know, it's used to the Mel Gibson phrase.
00:49:23.280But I mean, that shows like that this was not sort of inevitable, an inevitable process of economic development or something, because even when we had the boom in economy in the early 2000s, there was substantial immigration.
00:49:37.700But basically, when the economy collapsed, many of those immigrants left and, you know, the country really was on the rocks in the late 90s.
00:49:45.800And it was still overwhelmingly Irish.
00:49:49.260And it was only really around, you know, 2011, 12, 13 that you really started to notice the changes.
00:49:54.460And that was the time when our economy was tanked.
00:49:57.260And so it was purely just, you know, the will of this one man, Shatter, that was determined to change the makeup of the country that he was brought up in.
00:50:07.020But there's another one, you know, there's a there's a prominent academic in Trinity College called Roan at Lenton.
00:50:17.360I think the Occidental Observer covered her as well.
00:50:20.980And she she explicitly says that her her goal in life is to to deconstruct the Irish identity and to to destroy, destroy whiteness and destroy the Irish identity using immigration.
00:50:34.880She says, actually, I have the quote here, she says, I propose an interrogation of how the Irish nation can become other than white, Christian and settled by privileging the voices of the racialized and subverting state immigration, but also integration policies.
00:50:51.880So, you know, she's a she's a prominent academic.
00:50:54.520And, you know, those are pretty much the only two well-known Jews in Ireland.
00:50:59.440Like, I can't I can't think of anyone else.
00:51:02.300As I said, there's only like 2000 in Ireland.
00:51:04.880But those those are the prominent ones.
00:51:33.280No, you don't see you don't see her in the public space so much on TV or whatnot.
00:51:37.860But I think her her influence has been has been much more in the line of, you know, the sort of TNGOs and the change in sort of discussion now where suddenly, you know, whiteness and Irish whiteness is being discussed.
00:51:50.700And she's, you know, she's had an influence on the academic side of things and the kind of brainwashing that's coming out of the university system now.
00:52:23.160And that's another thing, you know, they'll use against you because they'll say, well, you know, that's one that they like to use is, well, the Irish weren't considered white.
00:52:33.860So, you know, race is such a, of course, it's, you know, of course, the guy that wrote, the guy that wrote that was Noel Ignatiev as well.
00:52:55.640But yeah, you know, they always play these sort of linguistic games because if an Irish person wants to assert Irish nationalism, which is something that wasn't controversial at all here, even recently, you know.
00:53:10.440And I mean, up until up until 10 years ago, all of the prominent parties had on their websites that there were Irish nationalist parties because that was like the starting point in Irish politics.
00:53:21.600I mean, every political party essentially came out of the original Sinn Féin, which was the party that fought a violent war of independence against the British Empire.
00:53:30.980And you couldn't enter politics in Ireland unless you said you were a nationalist and you wanted a united 32-county republic.
00:54:26.840So, you know, I was looking at that footage earlier.
00:54:29.220We did a little piece about that little Irish town.
00:54:31.680There was it like 300 people or something.
00:54:33.460They were protesting because they were bringing in all these refugees that was going to basically make them a minority in their own town overnight.
00:54:41.580Basically, the whole town was out there marching, saying, no, we can't take in these so-called refugees.
00:54:47.120Now, what do you think is going to be?
00:54:49.720I know this is a big question, but the future of Ireland.
00:54:57.120Yeah, it's, you know, it's hard not to be it's hard not to be blackpilled with some of us sometimes.
00:55:03.000And I actually I have a friend that lives lives around there.
00:55:07.000And he was he was saying he did find it kind of funny, like the idea that because that's a really popular spot for tourism, because that town is basically like the gateway into Connemara.
00:55:17.180It's like you have to pass through there to go into Connemara, which is obviously a really popular tourist spot.
00:55:21.740And he was just laughing at the prospect that, like, there'll be these American boomers going on a trip to Ireland and they'll go out to like really rural Connemara, like Irish speaking west of Ireland onto the coast as far as you can go.
00:55:35.340And like, they'll pull off with this town and it'll just be full of Syrians.
00:55:49.980I mean, every and everyone knows it, you know, people might not say it, but come on, like everyone knows that lady that was talking that African, like you're you're never going to be Irish.
00:55:59.300I would never be taken seriously of being Irish.
00:56:01.520It seems like it only works for these non-European people.
00:56:15.040But in terms of the future, I mean, this is the problem is that when you're when you're a country as small as Ireland, I mean, the thing about globalism is your options become really limited because we're so there's no prospect of leaving the EU or anything like that.
00:56:30.160I mean, we have the highest approval rating of the EU.
00:56:33.100And because we're so tied to this multinational, multicultural system, it would take so many years to undergo a decoupling process.
00:56:43.160And this is why like having a run in your economy and the interest of the nation rather than the other way around is so important because, you know, had we had we when we had money, you know, invested in capital spending programs and infrastructure and better health service.
00:57:01.220Because if we'd invested in these things, we'd at least have some kind of base, you know, where we ever to kind of go alone or become less reliant to these multinationals.
00:57:09.060But because we've had just complete consensus on neoliberalism and, you know, we're so completely tied to the system now that they've made it that we're so tied up to it that it's almost impossible to extricate ourselves from it.
00:57:23.080So I think, you know, I think there will be definitely a backlash.
00:57:26.980We always tend to be a bit behind the rest of Europe.
00:57:30.900But there is I do think there's a waking up going on.
00:57:34.660It hasn't translated to the ballot box yet.
00:57:37.140But, you know, that election was a kind of a snap election.
00:57:39.760But there's a really a rise in populist movement.
00:57:42.560There's definitely a rise in online movement.
00:57:46.160And political discussion online is dominated by nationalism.
00:57:49.480I know that's often the case generally, but especially in Ireland, this seems to be gaining serious momentum the last couple of years.
00:57:58.240But at the same time, I kind of think that any country as small as Ireland and it just probably even goes for some of the countries in the east.
00:58:06.280You know, I know people get very excited about Hungary and Poland in these countries.
00:58:09.860But I kind of think unless unless Europe as a whole is reoriented, that this process is going to continue in one form or another and that it will take some some bigger shift for for these these smaller countries to maintain their identity.
00:58:39.600Europe has been through all kinds of wars and fights and boundary disputes and will probably have something like that happen again.
00:58:46.700But so I have one more question for you, because it was actually someone who listens to your videos when I said that I was going to have you on.
00:58:53.460They said, yeah, ask him why he's quoting some Frankfurt School Marxist like Herbert Marcuse.
00:58:58.900You know, I haven't actually heard you do this.
00:59:00.760I haven't actually listened to all your videos, so I don't know what context.
00:59:14.060Well, this actually kind of gets into the last point, which is that, you know, again, from an Irish perspective, all of these cultural shifts have happened with economic liberalism.
00:59:24.780And this massive shift in consciousness has coincided, you know, in a lot of countries, the left gets to blame.
00:59:32.060But in Ireland, we haven't had a prominent left wing movement in government.
00:59:35.860And so this completely falls on center right neoliberal political parties.
00:59:41.580And so you see that a lot of the stuff we tend to attack as cultural Marxism oftentimes is more cultural neoliberalism.
00:59:50.140You know, you see you see the pictures of the pride parade now and they're carrying banners of like investment banks.
00:59:56.140And so I think I think actually that the left, if there were to actually fulfill the role, if if if the you know, the old school left was to still be the old school left.
01:00:08.700But they'd look at things like LGBT lobby and transgenderism and all this stuff.
01:00:16.000And from from that materialist Marxist perspective, they should be looking at things like, yeah, the protesters you see there with the their trans flags.
01:00:25.120And they're in that case, they're protesting outside Google against free speech.
01:00:29.880So that was when Gemma Daugherty, I believe, had her YouTube shut down.
01:00:33.820And so people it's like, well, the Google headquarters are in Dublin.
01:00:38.740And these counter protesters showed up to demand basically that their capitalist overlords in Google censorship people more.
01:00:48.860So this is like, you know, the absolute state of the modern left are standing outside that big imposing building.
01:00:54.800The Google HQ and they're they're begging their their capitalist overlords to do more censorship and be more tyrannical.
01:01:02.280So, you know, if if there was to be if leftists were to be honest and they were to follow the material analysis to its conclusion, they wouldn't be supporting these big corporations.
01:01:12.360Yeah, they'd see that LGBT and all this stuff was basically, you know, used by the elite to further their own interests, because these people become a subservient class that are completely reliant on liberal orthodoxy and governing ideology.
01:01:24.800And so in that sense, you know, they're they're perfect, they're perfect pawns for that.
01:01:30.900And, you know, another thing as well about the the materialist leftist analysis is there's absolutely no reason in theory why that would not be why that would not be racial.
01:01:41.800I mean, if you're to if you're to be an objective leftist and to look at things structurally and to look at the material base of ideology, there's no reason why game theory and ethnic competition would not be a factor.
01:01:55.220You'd analyze in that. And I mean, some of the things Marx and Engels said on race would certainly be be taboo today.
01:02:01.860So, I mean, I'm not definitely not. I'm not Americans or leftists, but I'd like to see there are elements emerging of a genuine left.
01:02:10.200If a genuine left, something like the kind of people that were maybe in labor in the 70s, people like George Galloway, who started a new workers party in Britain that's opposed to mass immigration.
01:02:19.860Immigration. If a genuine left emerged, I think they'd find that they agree with more.
01:02:26.880They agree with us on more stuff than they'd maybe be comfortable with.
01:02:30.640And, you know, if if some people in the left that consider themselves to be these great radicals or rebels realized that all of this stuff, all of this stuff is just a form of liberalism.
01:02:41.480All of this is cultural neoliberalism. And it's basically a tool used to control you.
01:02:46.180You know, as E. Michael Jones says, you know, don't ask for higher wages, just go to the gay disco.
01:02:51.340Then, you know, that's something that that's at least something we could we could unite on rather than what passes for the left now, which is just defenders of pause and defenders of cultural neoliberalism.
01:03:02.100I mean, this thing about that you can choose your identity, this lines up quite, quite well with a, you know, neoliberal capitalist ethic where everything can be purchased, everything can be consumed, everything can be turned into raw data, everything can be traded on the free market.
01:03:19.380And, you know, they don't want there to be to be identities that aren't for sale.
01:03:25.320You know, being a Swede is is not something that can be bought.
01:03:28.540You know, being an Irish person, even if they send you your certificate in the post, is not something that can be bought.
01:03:34.040And that's that's the problem for capitalists. That's the problem for for neoliberalism is that when people are still attached to these these identities that they're born with, these things matter to people more than the movies they watch or the products they consume.
01:03:50.240And it makes them less malleable to advertisement and to fall into that consumption matrix.
01:03:57.700And you find that immigrants tend to make much better consumers for for the elite.
01:04:03.160You know, you find that first generation immigrants, I've noticed, are very much more enamored with consumerism and tend to spend their money on much more junk.
01:04:12.520And I think white people, in a sense, were becoming kind of jaded with consumerism.
01:04:19.260And there's much more of a move towards young people sort of looking for new forms of authenticity or whatever.
01:04:25.980But immigration provides a nice solution to that.
01:04:28.940Just keep filling the countries with more consumers that are that are much more malleable to to advertisement and to capitalism.
01:04:36.600OK, that makes sense. Now, when you put it in perspective like that.
01:04:39.120And I will say even like old school communists like Bernie Sanders.
01:04:42.460Remember, he also used to actually care about the worker, talked about why immigration was it was bad for the worker.
01:04:49.280You know, a lot of old school communists also in Russia, not defending them, hate these people.
01:04:54.560But, you know, they weren't gay friendly and all those things, you know.
01:04:58.920So, yeah, hardline communists, maybe even some of the old Marxists are different than what we have today.
01:05:05.060But, of course, when people say cultural Marxism, I think they think of Frankfurt School, right?
01:05:09.720Herbert Mercusa and his other fellow Semitic buddies there who really created the whole fascist Nazi panic.
01:05:16.440You know, everything's racism and homophobia and xenophobia and all these ideas just basically infected themselves into the American university after World War II.
01:05:26.240So I think that's why the term cultural Marxism is really kind of caught on.
01:05:31.280I do think it is pretty fitting, but I get where you're coming from.
01:05:33.700It's very useful and it is quite impressive, really.
01:05:37.540That's one thing that the right has kind of memed into mainstream discourse.
01:05:42.560You know, when you see people like Jordan Peterson and even on, you know, mainstream news discussions, this is a popular term now.
01:05:49.300So I think that does show the power that the alt-right has had through the Internet and stuff that you even watch mainstream panel discussions in Ireland or the UK.
01:06:00.860And cultural Marxism is now a term that's regularly used, which is I think that's that's that's one big victory of the right the last few years.
01:06:07.840So tell us about your channel and anything else that you have going on.
01:06:11.320And you're a bright young man, so I have to ask.