In this episode, we discuss the death of a young black man, George 'George' Floyd, who was shot and killed by the police on the streets of Dublin on the 16th of July, 2020. We also discuss how racism still exists in Ireland, and how we need to stop it.
00:46:59.560We have a responsibility to stand up against inequality and injustice.
00:47:05.460Dublin street artist Eminel Blake explains why she paid a tribute to George Floyd with this Black Lives Matter mural on her estate in Talgat.
00:47:43.080If you talk to any black people you know or people of colour that you know, they'll tell you how much racism they experience on a regular basis.
00:51:46.420It was just a random, well, he should have been deported 20 years ago.
00:51:50.540He should not even have been in the country.
00:51:52.320And it's underwritten, it's under, like, approved, sanctioned, this way of doing business now in Ireland and so many other countries in Europe, of just like bringing them in.
00:52:07.640And if there are people that are murdered and stabbed and raped and ganker, well, that's just parts and parcel of having migration.
00:52:53.700Fianna Fial counselor, Azad Takadukledekleduker, was asked to withdraw comments at a council meeting this week after saying that he would like to see those involved in last Thursday's violent Dublin rights.
00:53:42.660Yeah, it was a Limerick City and County Council at a Monday meeting there where members condemned the shocking scenes in the Capitol last Thursday after a knife attack.
00:54:01.200A knife attack on three children and their care assistants outside a school in Dublin's inner city.
00:54:08.320Finegal counselor Adam Teske said that as the chairman, John Polisian, blah, blah, blah, I felt it necessary and appropriate to condemn the thuggery.
00:54:16.860Oh, I was surprised it wasn't condemned for racism, using that word.
00:55:00.920That should have already been part of the vetting processes.
00:55:03.860But then the fact that he's in the country, yes, unfortunately, legally, but illegally for all that time as well, puts this in the hands of the legal apparatus in Ireland, right?
00:55:44.280Everybody is going to come down on you like a ton of bricks for attacking every country or every freaking nationality that comes to this country of Ireland.
00:55:54.260This beautiful Ireland that you people decided to try and destroy because you don't like different people because you are idiots and you are trying to be heroes, which you are not.
00:56:07.280You will never be included in the history books as any form of heroes.
00:56:12.360You would be in the history books as pariahs and destroy.
00:56:16.100What is this about the history books here?
00:56:27.640What is this about being part of the history books?
00:57:10.000Dublin is a beautiful city that did not deserve what happened over them poor children that are in the hospital that you did not decide to go and light a single candle for.
00:57:21.340Instead, you decide to light up guarder cars, buses, Lewis's, which you need to go and transport yourself to work.
00:57:29.540Well, I don't even think you'd work because if you did, you wouldn't be certain, no, Lewis.
00:57:36.500See how he's reversing all of this here?
00:57:39.940Like, wait a minute, who's it that's not working again?
00:57:42.560We'll look at that a little bit later, too.
00:59:26.360We 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.
01:01:04.540And they have been trying to hammer this into people for the Europeans primarily, but here in this case, the Irish people, for decades in some cases.
01:01:13.560Oh, you're not special until we showed up, right?
01:01:41.640While it's true that the Irish have known a fair share of oppression, the reality is, during that oppression, we still maintained our invisibility cloak of white privilege.
01:01:53.980And we often hear about white privilege, and it hadn't really occurred to me that I had white privilege as well.
01:02:00.400But now, listening to you, I understand that I do have a privilege.
01:02:03.960I think we shouldn't forget that our parliament still looks very male, very stale and pale.
01:02:16.200So, you view the law completely different to somebody who is a traveller, to somebody who is uneducated, to somebody who's maybe a member of the Roma community.
01:02:32.680You, as a white privileged man, how does my debt impact your life?
01:02:36.700I think it's worth putting on the record of this house, that concept of white privilege and how that can be normatised in our own lives.
01:02:45.500And, you know, we, as we develop as a society, in a more racially integrated society, I think need to become more and more conscious of that within our own politics.
01:02:54.320And the advantage that that has brought, the corollary being that your whiteness is itself an advantage, and to really understand that.
01:03:01.600I often observe young people as they walk together, one of their party, or two of their party, will be from, you know, their background may be from a different country, and they are, you know, celebrating that, and they are engaged in that, much more so than the very dull, white, pasty Ireland that I grew up in.
01:03:21.680I think there's a couple of guys in here, but still.
01:03:23.400Well, why don't these people just move?
01:03:31.520Why don't they move to, like, a non-white country somewhere?
01:03:37.120It's fascinating how this works, how every European country has to become this.
01:03:42.960They have to have the same talking points that they're largely picked up from America.
01:03:47.040I mean, let's be honest, that's what this is, right?
01:03:48.760This is Jewish academics, you know, essentially, well, academics, but, like, you know, in a university environment type of people, from the Noel Ignatievs to the Frankfurt School type of guys, right?
01:04:01.160The Frank Horkheimers and the Cultural Marxists and all that stuff that have been pushing this, you know, anti-white, anti-Western, anti-colonial narrative, and now it's into, now it's become CRT and wokeness and all these kinds of things, right?
01:04:14.060Talking points that they're picked up from these groups and organizations, right?
01:04:23.300And it's in every European country, and they're pushing it in the same way down the pipe, and all these politicians are just reiterating this.
01:04:30.920And they think this is what's going to, this is doing, this is what's doing good looks like.
01:04:36.680I think what we need to do in our own political system is to call out the hypocrisy of standing in a parliament like this, full of white people, and saying racism is something that other people do.
01:04:50.860Because it's what politicians here in Ireland do.
01:04:53.800Just being an existing and being white in your country of your forefathers, trying to, I guess, run things as a politician, that's racist.
01:05:56.920My God, we gotta, where's the brown people we can invite to shit on us here publicly and tell, that's a great one, and tell us that we are the racists.
01:12:45.180Let's keep moving here on the reactions from the different politicians.
01:12:49.300Comments by Irish Media Minister Catherine Martin calling on the public to report any hate speech they see online to the police.
01:12:59.120The government is addressing the extremist content online, like hate speech and incitement to violence.
01:13:05.220And Commentshoun Oman is Ireland's new online safety and media regulator and will also be joint regulator along with the European Commission for the EU Digital Services Act.
01:13:14.080My department has ongoing engagement with on Commentshoun and I, having met them two weeks ago, met with on Commentshoun again yesterday for an update on last week's events.
01:13:24.400And they informed me that they had engaged immediately with the large platforms and with the Gardaà and the European Commission and that the platforms had activated their instant response plans and their engagement is continuing.
01:13:35.560On Commentshoun is calling for those who see hate speech or other illegal content online to report it to the platforms or to Angara the Shia Khanna.
01:13:44.960This is important, but even more so important next year, because once On Commentshoun is fully operational next year, people will be able to report to them directly if they think a platform has ignored or wrongly rejected their complaints.
01:13:58.800And these reports can then be used by Commentshoun to decide where to focus their oversight and investigations and ultimately their enforcement action.
01:14:08.060They're trying to, as they replace you, right, they tighten the news and they're choking you out, essentially, in your ability to even just say something about it.
01:14:18.400Well, this will spark riots, so you can't have, you know, you don't have any right to say any of these things.
01:14:28.500This could lead to someone somewhere doing something, so therefore you can't have a right to voice your opinion about these types of things.
01:14:38.140And so they're jumping on this immediately, using these poor children as the excuse, right?
01:14:46.680Not even as the excuse, they're just using the reaction to it, right, of like a justified reaction to it, to bring in more of these measures, to clamp down on the very thing that, I mean, like the very thing that exposes them
01:15:03.740and points out what traitors these people are, are the very thing that they're also trying to go after.
01:15:11.580To basically lock themselves into a power position for forever, essentially, until you just are like, until we're replaced completely and they didn't hear a beep from anybody.
01:15:25.080Finally, on Commission's first online safety code, as provided for under the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act, will be adopted in early 2024.
01:15:34.760A draft code will be published very shortly for stakeholder consultation, and this will hold the video sharing platforms accountable for how they protect their users online and will deal with extremists.
01:21:16.660Yeah, there's finally coming some stats out, right?
01:21:18.980In Germany, Italy, Spain, suspected rates of Algerian immigrants are 10 times to 17s higher than the suspected rates of German, Italian, Spanish citizens.
01:21:30.260So it's like it's out of control, especially from these like Algerian, Moroccans, Africans, that sub-Saharan Africans, because they're excluding these Maghreb countries, right?
01:21:44.880And this is kind of, I think it's any time of crime, just being convicted of anything, right?
01:21:55.620Switzerland had a crime released as well from a while ago, five to seven times more likely to be a criminal if you're from the Maghreb countries.
01:22:07.200And then, of course, sub-Saharan Africa is next, five times as much.
01:22:10.280Afghanistan, Pakistan, three times as much.
01:24:21.960So, Anun Californian, here's the one for you, right?
01:24:26.420In case you thought E. Michael Jones accidentally agreed with and promoted anti-white Jewish academic Noel Ignatiev, who has, of course, died since then.
01:24:38.720This is what he said regarding the white and the Irish, right?
01:25:10.800Read Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish Became White, and you'll realize you weren't white for a long time.
01:25:17.780You were over—when you come—when you're in Ireland, when you're in Estonia, wherever you are, you're not white.
01:25:23.620You're only white when you come in contact with black people, and then you're caught up in this dynamic where they're trying to divide the races because divide and conquer is the way you rule people.
01:25:34.100That's it from the beginning in Virginia, 1613, whatever it was, that's the first time that the word white was applied to human beings, and it's because they wanted to divide.
01:25:55.320You hear that lie all the time, right?
01:25:56.720Oh, they didn't think of what—like, yeah, it goes back to, like, the Greeks, and, like, they saw themselves as, like, a clear racial distinction collectively from the other people that lived in other parts of the world.
01:26:15.460Okay, as someone—or maybe—was it from one of his—yeah, I forget what it was.
01:26:20.480I'll see if I can find it later, but it was kind of interesting.
01:26:22.540It was just like the, you know, kind of just, you know, in general, it was kind of, you know, recognition that it's like—yeah, it's not—yes, it's a category, but the category is a descriptive term.
01:26:35.240I mean, you—you—I'm happy with Europeans, you know what I mean?
01:26:40.800You can do—you can do—you want to do that thing, you can do that thing.
01:26:44.080They're high—these academics, like Noel Ignative, was an anti-white piece of shit, as you can see, of course, on the—in his quote here from his Harvard magazine, right?
01:26:52.140We've got to abolish the white race, right?
01:26:54.160Imagine him saying, abolish the Jewish race, the African race, the Asian race, et cetera, et cetera.
01:26:59.620We could go on and on about that stuff.
01:27:02.100Do you think there would be any pushback, right?
01:27:04.460So he can go on and say all these things, which, you know, number one, they're hiding—well, it's just, no, no, we're attacking whiteness, not just, you know, white people, right?
01:33:46.580It should be done in a matter of days and in a matter of weeks.
01:33:49.220With the use of facial recognition technology, that can be possible.
01:33:52.180Have AI bring in all the technology, upend all laws, bring in these new rights for the police to use this new technology immediately to crack down and go after these people.
01:34:04.840So, yes, you could argue, you know, they want to get these people out of the woodwork and just basically then arrest them, you know.
01:34:32.440They will literally jail you for memes saved on your phone.
01:34:35.040This is part of the new hate speech bill here, I believe.
01:34:38.160Offensive preparing or possessing material likely to incite violence or hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics.
01:35:00.940But it's like waiting for the last step of being passed and finally just like being brought into law or whatever.
01:35:05.460And now, of course, they're using this as the excuse, yes, to bring this shit in.
01:35:11.480So people will say we should do nothing and just sing kumbaya and get together and whatever.
01:35:20.100They will point at this and say, yeah, see, this is either they'll say it was a fake setup or whatever.
01:35:25.200Or they'll say, oh, that's why you shouldn't do anything.
01:35:27.200But it's like, you know, if they're silencing you in this kind of capacity, if these kinds of laws are coming down the pipe, what do they leave you to do?
01:35:35.660I'm saying as I understand why people get to the point where they feel they have no other course of action than to violently protest in the streets.
01:35:47.580And again, that's what they said about the George Floyd riots.
01:35:51.000So subject to subject, sentence, blah, blah, blah.
01:35:52.880A person shall be guilty of an offense under this section if the person prepares or possesses material that is likely, and we've highlighted that before, very intentionally dubious, unclear language, right?
01:36:06.140Are they likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics with a view to the material being communicated to the public or a section of the public, meaning if you share it with a person over a chat app, presumably, whether by himself or herself or another person, and prepares or possesses such material with the intent to incite violence or hatred?
01:36:30.160How do you determine whether or not a material is shared with the intent to incite violence?
01:36:36.120Because they will just, they will go way overboard with this to just clamp down on anybody they see as a threat.
01:36:45.560And of course, we went through what the characteristics was, and of course, there's no protection if you're white Irish.
01:36:52.080And I don't think they, do they say white of Irish?
01:36:54.420I forget what the wording was, exact wording in the language, but it was something like that.
01:37:48.220You have to visually, physically show your discontent out on the streets.
01:37:54.160You know, people can argue all day long if it's the right strategy or not, but it's understandable that these people did what they did.
01:38:03.120But then, of course, on top of that, you have a number of segments, a segment of the public who looks to be majority non-Irish that were actually looting in connection with this.
01:38:13.280And the media is connecting the two, saying, oh, it was the anti-immigrant protesters that began with looting.
01:38:23.340So here's the screenshot here regarding this, right?
01:38:25.420A member acting under the authority of a search warrant under this section may, a, operate any computer at the place that is being searched or cause any such computer to be operated by a person accompanying the member for that purpose,
01:38:37.480and, b, require any person at the place who appears to the member to have lawful access to the information in any such computer,
01:38:48.040one, to give the member any password necessary to operate it and any encryption key or code necessary to unencrypt the information accessible by the computer.
01:39:01.140Otherwise, to enable the member to examine the information accessible by the computer in a form in which the information is visible and legible, is that the term?
01:39:12.020Or, three, to produce the information in a format in which it can be removed and in which it is or can be made visible and legible.
01:39:24.400A person who, a, obstructs or attempts to obstruct a member acting under the authority of Section 20, warrant under this section,
01:39:30.000b, fails to comply with the requirement under the subsection,
01:39:32.160or c, in relation to a requirement under the subsection, gives a name, address, or provides information which the member has reasonable cause for believing,
01:39:38.520for believing is false or misleading, in a material respect, shall be guilty of an offense.
01:39:44.480A person guilty of an offense under subsection 7 shall be liable on summary conviction to a Class A fine or
01:39:52.920imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both.
01:42:31.940To pass some of these policies that they already have tabled up and ready to go.
01:42:36.240Not going out, not looting, not rob the boys.
01:42:38.460We saw that was probably someone else doing that, right?
01:42:40.800But yeah, just, you know, meaningless destruction or whatever.
01:42:43.580But like, you know, like you're going, you're going after, you know, your, what, the police cars that were burned or something like that, right?
01:42:59.800In the hate speech bill, there's a point where it says that if the guardian asks you for your phone and the code for your phone for a suspected hateful material in your phone and you do not give it, you can be subject to 12 months in prison.
01:43:12.180This is a Trojan horse, as I've said already.
01:43:14.540And the people need to make sure they stand against this.
01:43:16.480So please, I am asking for people to focus and use their head.
01:43:21.660And this situation that we are here, this is the one that we need to be focusing on and keeping our prayers and our thoughts on, is the victims and those who stepped in to prevent what happens to you today.
01:50:03.460And if your views on other people's identities go to make their lives unsafe, insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace,
01:50:17.020then I believe that it is our job as legislators to restrict those freedoms for the common good.
01:50:23.380So does that apply to the guy that just stabbed those kids then, too?
01:51:41.700It goes back to at least, you know, excuse me, as I said, April this year.
01:51:46.420Well, earlier than that, obviously, but, like, the discussion resurfaced at that point again over this stuff.
01:51:52.560When the amendment bill was proposed, and I think it was passed, right, amendment from People Before Profit to include
01:52:03.400the UN Convention on Human Rights Protections on Free Speech within the Hate Speech Bill has been defeated,
01:52:07.780as well as warned to exercise a section allowing for the prosecution of an individual's possession of offencing material without communicating it.
01:52:14.320And they said here, today the government voted against human rights and quite literally for thought crime legislation.
01:52:19.880So that's back in April already this year.
01:52:22.040I think it was even Elon said, yeah, massive attack on freedom of speech.
01:52:26.480I think he posted that from Israel, by the way.
01:57:26.120As I said, we're booking in some more guests as well, so we'll do more regular interviews on either Tuesdays and or Thursdays.
01:57:32.560It depends on how the schedule pans out as well.
01:57:35.040And we might start doing some of those live as well.
01:57:37.120We'll just have to kind of pull down the production to be able to do everything live if you're so accustomed to just, you know, piecing everything together in post afterwards.
01:57:43.700But anyway, so we might do some of those live, and we might kind of try to set a more permanent time for that, which is easier for you guys to tune in if you want to watch it live and so forth.
01:57:52.040Maybe you have questions for the guests and things like that as well.
01:57:55.280But anyway, so that's some of the stuff coming.