There were a few dozen arrests which is probably the main reason it stopped. The media and politicians came out against the people rioting as you would expect. So did a lot of Irish people on social media — Ireland has a midwit epidemic, unfortunately. Many of the same people condemning the Irish rioters were fully in favour of the BLM riots in 2020. Here’s one example out of many that I came across:
It’s the lack of cognitive dissonance that I find jarring, they just ignore any hypocrisy.
I suspected it would be one night of spontaneous rioting and if it continued into the next day it would be on a much smaller scale than the night before. I knew one night of it would accomplish nothing; to effect any kind of changes at all the pressure would have to be kept on for at least a week which might lead to politicians making concessions in an attempt to get the riots to stop. Allowing it to be shut down after one night puts the leverage back on the side of the politicians, giving them the opportunity to scapegoat these people and use it as an excuse to talk about pushing through hate speech/hate crime legislation to ensure nothing like this happens again. A climate of fear would have to be created for politicians similar to what the BLM riots created — I mean, how long did those protestors/rioters have people kneeling “in solidarity”!? If the Irish are going to riot we can’t be pushovers about it, otherwise the outcome is worse than if we said nothing at all, and gives the politicians confidence that they have the ability to quickly quell dissent.
I agree with this and I’ve said the same thing privately although I have to be careful about what I say publicly. In private on occasion I can go medieval in my attitude towards politicians which simply doesn’t fly in a public setting!
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