France too. That land belongs to Gauls
How
Also went to Austria and Germany as a kid. One of these school ventures. They take us to about a gazillion castles and palaces and one stop was this enormous plaza in Vienna, and the tour guide points out the balcony where Hitler spoke following the Anchluss. Cue a bunch of pimply American teenagers taking pictures of it and going "huh ok." Then I look across the plaza and see this group of full-on skinheads who must have been in their late 20s / early 30s or so in boots and bomber jackets complete with eagle patches also taking pictures of it and having a great time.
And I was like "huh… oh DAMN."
Another funny anecdote from that trip is one of the students dressed as a goth in a sort of fascist way. Black trenchcoat, crew cut. He wasn't a Nazi but then stitched a souvenir Germany patch on his sleeve. Big mistake. Old ladies started spitting at him and he got pulled aside and questioned by cops at this thing we went to.
lol yeah they're the same thing, Ian Paisley got his doctorate in Theology from a SC Bible college.
The South was populated with "Scots Irish" settlers, they wanted them to deal with the Native Americans the same way they dealt with the Native Irish.
Also like Southerners losing made them nuts. Protestants used to be quite radical (see the United Irishmen), and they used to be quite proud to be Irish and led the Gaelic Revival. Then 1921 happened and they went nuts, and the Good Friday Agreement made them even worse.
Nice. The last part reminds me of when I was a child in Sweden, fishing in the capital city, during National Day. My mom had warned me that a lot of racists would be in town and that we needed to be careful. We were sitting by a dock, with a big bridge behind us, and all the sudden I hear noise and shouting, turned around to look, and saw a massive group of black-clad anti-fascists with red flags chase neo-Nazis across said bridge. Some anti-fascists came down the bridge, walking through the dock area, and I still remember their faces to this day. I think that was the day I started my political journey.
As a brown kid, I remember how scared the idea of racists who wanted to hurt me was. And my moms words impacted me, even she was scared. And to then see those people, in their black clothes, with red flags fluttering in the smoke, roaring with anger as they threw themselves at the neo-Nazi filth, started a fire in me.
Crazy shit. Why did it happen?
But user, most french people are gauls
also most other "native" volken are younger than the fall of the roman empire, all non-norse germanic people, icelanders and greenlanders, pretty much all slavs, hungarians, pretty much every other people as well
ironically nazis create even more leftists than they realize. I used to be a brown centrist lib until the dumb white autist in my school with no friends tried to argue that the LAPD should be allowed to arrest black kids at random.
It was the 80s and he wasn't white-English is my guess. I didn't pry into details. He was born and raised there but I couldn't exactly determine his ancestry. Fairly light brown skin. If I had to totally spitball it I'd guess his parents were Lebanese maybe. Hard to say. Dude was jacked though and we mostly talked about MMA.
Same here.