When the Christchurch Massacre occurred in March 2019, every major media outlet in the West made it their number one news story for months. The story still crops up from month to month when the issue of online radicalisation is discussed.
Queen Elizabeth II said that she was ‘deeply saddened’ by the attack. Nicola Sturgeon and others condemned ‘Islamophobia’. Almost every major political and journalistic figure commented upon it.
In 2022, despite the ubiquity of the Black Lives Matter movement and the universal disgust at regular school shootings in the United States of America, there has been widespread indifference, even contempt, towards the 50 Catholics who were slaughtered by Muslim militiamen in Nigeria yesterday.
Virtually all Irish media outlets flat out refused to even mention the attack, despite the fact that the country is predominantly Catholic with a significant Nigerian minority. It is quite normal to find articles about the Nigerian community in Ireland when they are being manipulated to help the agenda of the regime, but when the story involves Nigerian Catholics, at the expense of Nigerian Muslims, then it must simply be ignored.
There is a simple reason for this. To paraphrase Kanye West, Irish journalists don’t care about Catholics.
If you are a black person who is on board with the woke agenda, the you can expect Ireland’s Dublin 4 elite mouthpieces to use you to achieve their goals as much as possible. If you are a Catholic, then they do not care if you are gunned down in cold blood during Mass. That applies to Catholics in France, Nigerian or Sri Lanka.
Some of the headlines that did make the news instead of this story show the depths of their indifference.
One from the Irish government’s anti Catholic mouthpiece RTE , wailed at the fact that Hungary fans had booed England’s ‘taking the knee’ gesture during an international football match. Evidently the knee gesture means more than actual black lives.
One from Irish Independent read ‘Three dead and 11 injured after mass shooting in Philadelphia’.
Purely in terms of numbers, it begs the question of how one was of interest but the other was not.
We must also ask if any of the usual rhetoric about a ‘New Ireland’ really means anything to this people or if it is merely a rhetorical tool to attack those things that the Anglo Protestant establishment dislikes, namely Gaelic culture and Catholicism. The latter, of course, is the one that they really hold disdain for.
Catholics should not be surprised that even a horrific slaughter like this is ignored by Irish journalists and politicians. They have made no secret of the fact that they hate us and blame us for all of their incompetence and shortcomings, the only question to ask is, what are they going to do to us in the coming years when they really have their boots on our necks?
In the same way the the Christchurch shooter is a reference point for those criticising incendiary comments about immigration, Irish politicians and journalists should be reminded of this event in the future to force them to keep in mind what happens when hatred of Catholics becomes normalised in society.