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Originally Posted by Nusselt
thats what ive always (kind of ) thought, if the ira/sinn fein/irish wanted the NI people to democratically choose which nation they wanted to be a part of id understand but saying you want a united ireland in the geographic sense is madness taking into account their own history.
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The point is that "Northern Ireland" is a historical invention (OK, so are all nations, but it's more obvious/recent in this case). You could draw borders around certain areas in London where Christians would be in a minority. Would it make sense to do that and then for the (Muslim for instance) majority in these areas demand their own nation, or being part of Pakistan or what-not?
The Republican argument is that Northern Ireland only had it's borders gerrymanded so the Catholics would be in a minority and a permanently oppressed one at that too.