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To: wolfpat
Then you ought to REALLY be offended by Syracuse University’s mascot.

Orangemen are to the Irish what Hamas or Hezbollah are to the Israelis.

Yes, come to think of it, I am highly offended!

66 posted on 06/19/2014 12:43:03 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88
From Wiki:

Irish nationalists and Catholics have compared the Orange Order marching through their neighbourhoods to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) marching through an African American neighbourhood.[113][114] The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association of the 1960s-1970s, described them as "Britain's Ku Klux Klan" who wrote to Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh:

We viewed the [Orange Order] as similar to the KKK – so bare-faced and confident enough in the bigoted status quo that they wore bowler hats and sashes rather than white robes and pointed hoods.[115]

Who knew? We need to ban them too !!!

70 posted on 06/19/2014 12:48:40 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Decriminalize Tax Evasion)
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