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Disclaimer: I am not trolling, I am an autistic person who doesn’t understand so many social nuances. Also I am from New Hampshire (97% white), so I just don’t have any close African-American friends that I am willing to risk asking such a loaded question.

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[–] postmateDumbass 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Note: Unionist is not refering to labor unions.

[–] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Years and years ago at a house party, some woman from Cork and a friend of mine from Belfast were joking and they said, “Because Ulster says”, and I had no idea what they were talking about.

[–] khannie 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

All these years later I can still hear his voice saying it.

[–] voluble 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This seems interesting. What's the context here?

[–] khannie 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The lad in the picture is Ian Paisley. He was a prominent unionist back in the day. (Unionist being someone in favour of maintaining the six counties in Northern Ireland being part of the UK)

From the wiki page:

Ulster Says No was the name and slogan of a unionist mass protest campaign against the provisions of the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement which gave the government of the Republic of Ireland an advisory role in the governance of Northern Ireland.

Page here if you want some more reading.

As I recall (and I was young at the time so this may be wrong) it got rolled out for various other stuff.

Catchy slogan in fairness.

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