| Comment | If you're a centre-left atheist, then you've surely heard of secularism and how our society decidedly does not have it. The Orange Walks are a state sponsored religious event that comes at great cost to the public. See the helicopter circling george square, the dozens of police vans, motorcycle team, horse cavalry, road blocks and so on that has to be deployed when these guys went to George Square? That has to happen for every single walk with road closures through the city that severely inhibits traffic and even diverts our emergency services so they take longer to get to where they're going during them.
I cannot name a single other entity that is turbo-franchised like the OO in Scotland and the only reason it persists is as an artefact of a less tolerant time where more people valued a display of supremacy over those you don't like or are politically opposed to.
The only reason I don't agree with stopping the walks is because their memberbase is literally a dying breed from old age and even protestants are getting sick of them. Trying to stop them might make their appeal to victimhood appear legitimate to some people and I'd rather it go down its slow death spiral it's currently on than take a risk of society dividing down sectarian lines and having to put up with anymore years of it than I need to. |
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