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There's plenty to be critical of in the UK's actions in NI, but firstly we're free to criticise it without being called a 'self-loathing saiss' and I don't remember us turfing all the Irish into two large concentration camps and then bombing the shit out of them.
That said, through laws regarding marriage, inheritance, and tax etc in previous centuries English governments did do a lot to manipulate land ownership in favour of the English occupiers.
We did also invent the concentration camp, although that was to deal with the Boers who appeared to themselves be racial supremacists and occupiers of some sort. I'm so confused right now.
I guess what I'm saying is that there's plenty to be critical of, but to do so in direct comparison to current events in Gaza implying some sort of moral equivalence requires a sort of ethical tone-deafness.
Kenya would be a better example.