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Irish Nationalist Party Shinf Fein Accused of Abandoning Sovereignty for Mass Immigration
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Traditional Irish Nationalism Fought For Sovereignty, Now Champions Mass Migration
"Shinn Fein were the nationalist party, you know, and they were back in the early 1900s. They would have been kind of to the side. They weren't involved in the rising, the 1916 rising, but they were there and they took it. They took the energy afterwards and they went with it. Um so they were they were nationalists back then but after during I suppose the 19 late 1960s when the troubles in the north happened they started becoming woke you know they looked at the civil rights movement in America and they started using that same kind of talking points and moral philosophy and brought it into their struggle in the north."
An Irish commentator claims that Sinn Féin, historically Ireland's nationalist party fighting for sovereignty and a united Ireland, has shifted to supporting mass immigration despite 80% of Irish voters rejecting birthright citizenship in a 2004 referendum. The guest argues this ideological transformation began in the 1960s when the party adopted American civil rights movement rhetoric, creating a paradoxical position of wanting British forces out while welcoming mass migration that contradicts popular opinion on immigration limits.
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