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.

  • @[email protected]
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    46 months ago

    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
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      56 months ago

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

      • @voluble
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        46 months ago

        This seems interesting. What’s the context here?

        • @khannie
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          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.