After a car hit a protester in East Wall on Wednesday night, there are calls for the politicians such as Leo Varadkar who smeared these concerned Irish citizens to be held to account for their role in inciting violence.
Earlier this month Taoiseach Leo Varadkar again insulted concerned Irish citizens in the DĂĄil on Wednesday, dismissing the grassroots movements that have sprung up in communities targeted for migrant plantations across the country as simply being âfar rightâ and âracistâ.
Varadkar told the DĂĄil:
âRacists and the far right will blame whatever problem the country is facing on migrants. Thatâs the way it works. Thatâs the way they think.
âIf we have a housing crisis, itâll be, âthe foreigners are taking our homesâ. If we have an unemployment crisis, it will be âthe foreigners are taking our jobsâ.
âIf weâve got high levels of crime, theyâll blame the foreigners for the high levels of crime.
âIf thereâs violence against women, one of the oldest tropes in the book, they will blame that on migrants and people whoâve come here from overseas, particularly those who are brown or black.
âWe shouldnât play into those arguments. I think inadvertently youâre actually doing that. âWhatever problem any country faces, theyâre going to blame it on the brown man or the brand.
âItâs housing now, it could just as easily be unemployment, it could just as easily be crime.â
The fact that those organising these anti-plantation protests have stipulated time and again that the governmentâs failure is to blame for these issues and the governmentâs subsequent mass importation of tens of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees is only exacerbating these issues appears lost on Varadkar.
The Taoiseach appears to be either genuinely ignorant and incapable of grasping why these protests are taking place or purposefully misleading the DĂĄil and the public to smear Irish citizens.
The public will have to decide which is worse.
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