I forget how Republican I am until someone challenges it. It's because some of the guys at my CSC are so tunnel vision on it, not even having pacifism as a goal (I'm a pacifist, they're stuck in the 70s and 80s). But yeah, my Irish roots are important to me enough to have studied a lot of history books from when I was 13 onwards and nothing makes me change my main opinions on it which is why it's a 'proto-politics' rather than just politics.
Someone not thinking about the history of Ireland as they make a comment which seems distasteful to me is not the same thing as someone being deliberately imperialist. But I find it hard to remember that.
Sevco fans pretty much mean it though. Even to extreme extents. And I don't trust their families either when they say imperialist things, because of that experience. They also mean the anti immigrant, anti Irish immigrant, stuff they say. I've met two Rangers fans who didn't feel that way - SNP types. In a lifetime of knowing Rangers fans...
It's so ingrained in Glasgow politics and football that it's pretty much impossible to not know what you're talking about. Even if it's an NT person who doesn't know it, study it in depth, the way I have.
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