Irish influencer uses video of schoolchildren to spread racist hate

In a grim insight into the uniquely dark mindset of racist influencers, Irish bigot Michael McCarthy has used a video of giggling schoolchildren to spread his message of hate.

Anyone with a shred of humanity might see such a video and find it heartwarming, but McCarthy’s response is one of loathing because not everyone is white.

The video takes place in a school with a large number of Black and Brown children.

McCarthy said with dismay:

I couldn’t believe this when I seen [sic] it. I just can’t believe it’s Ireland.

He goes on to remark upon a lack of “Irish people” in the video. To anyone without an abscess-ridden heart, all the children in the video are Irish. They live and go to school in Ireland.

McCarthy, however, is an ethnonationalist. This bleak world view means Irish people can only ever be defined as a narrow and arbitrary white population. Everyone else is a figure of revulsion in his eyes.

‘Irish’ is a nationality, not a skin colour

Social justice campaigner from Galway, Joe Loughnane, flagged the video on his Instagram account. He rightly pointed out the obvious concerns for parents, all of whom would likely be horrified at images of their infant children being exposed to racist abuse.

 

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Loughnane shared some of the responses below McCarthy’s X post, in which other bigots levelled disgusting racist abuse at the schoolchildren. He also added that the video was “gone from [McCarthy’s] Instagram account”.

The video appears to have been filmed at St John the Evangelist National School in Lucan, Dublin.

A commenter on Loughnane’s post suggests it shows Irish international footballer, Millenic Alli, returning to his former school. The images online do match the location in the video, and Ali did grow up in Lucan.

According to another commenter, McCarthy has form for this sort of thing.

She said:

He scours the internet to find images and videos of children to post to his pages, he allows these children’s images to be exploited by racists all over the world, he gets a lot of engagement from it, when challenged he goes on a blocking spree.

He exploited images of children from my workplace, a man who uses images of children and teenagers, without their consent, for personal gain, should be on a watch list!

Rancid influencer fiddles the figures

McCarthy goes on to quote entirely misleading statistics. He compares recent growth in the Irish population, partially attributable to immigration, to growth between 1900 to 2000.

In the early part of the 20th century, Ireland was still recovering from Britain’s enforced famine that killed more than one million people and resulted in at least the same number again emigrating.

British rule left Ireland underdeveloped relative to similar European countries, and heavy emigration continued long into the century. It also ultimately led to a war of independence, and the subsequent civil war in the 1920s.

Needless to say, all the above had a huge negative effect on population numbers. Comparing that era to now, and thereby suggesting ‘immigration-driven’ population growth is currently out of control, is totally misleading. It should be a cause for celebration that the Irish economy is now strong, albeit unequal, and that immigrants contribute to that ongoing growth.

The irony of all this is that the video in question is the perfect example of that process. Millenic Ali is the son of Nigerian parents, who is now an asset to the Irish football team.

The same can be said of another story that the pathetic McCarthy laments, in which a Nigerian-born woman became mayor of Galway. It’s a tragic but inspiring tale of how Helen Ogbu fled her home country, suffering the loss of her husband in the process, to become mayor of her adopted city.

However, to the prison-like mind of an ethnonationalist, even this is just another cause for bile and spite.

McCarthy embraces ideas most destructive for Ireland

McCarthy has previously been flagged by the Journal, which has debunked many of his claims. A bigot and a liar, the influencer has made false claims about migrant violence in Sweden, Islamic prayer in Irish schools and about Irish views on the EU.

His views are also totally incoherent. He criticises so-called ‘Israel’, seemingly unaware that its disastrous ethnostate project is the ultimate cautionary tale for the worldview he espouses. He presents himself as an Irish patriot, yet embraces the ideas that have historically been most harmful to Irish people. British colonisers viewed the Irish as subhuman, lazy and feckless. The result was crushing poverty, famine and mass murder.

To Americans, the Irish were the immigrants McCarthy despises. Again they were seen as a lesser race, and discriminated against once more.

Aside from the obvious immorality of having disdain for other ethnic groups, it would be an act of suicide for Ireland to usher in a world where notions of superior and inferior races abound. In an ethno-supremacist world of might makes right, it won’t be a nation of 7,000,000 people that’s at the top of the heap, determining the pecking order for the human species.

“Ireland for the Irish” will rapidly become “Ireland for whoever rules over the ashes”. Then even McCarthy might reflect fondly on a time when schoolchildren could laugh freely.

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