For a second there I thought that Trump had decided to follow Putin’s example and created his own cheerleading group of deranged middle-aged/elderly women. Lmao.
An Orange Lodge membership list is literally just a list of all the reactionary Protestants who can't overcome their anti-Catholic sectarianism enough to try and work with reactionary Catholics who otherwise agree with them on everything.
The Orange Lodge is an organisation whose point is, at my best-faith mode possible, to promote commemoration of when they were politely encouraged to forcibly colonise Ireland and stamp out the Catholic Church through grotesque state violence against its practitioners.
I hope the OO is excluded from whatever expressions of "British culture" remain in the Unionist/Protestant minority in a future united Ireland. Thankfully, it's totally died out in the diaspora at least. They used to have a KKK-like presence in Canada a century ago, but now are totally unknown.
It's not totally unknown. It still has thousands of members in Canada, and Toronto was one of the key areas of financial support for Loyalist paramilitaries.
There was a Canadian branch of the UDA, and weapons were regularly shipped to the UDA and UVF by Canadian supporters during the 70s and 80s.
Yeah on further research the news I've heard of its death has been exaggerated. Particularly shocking that "Orangeman's Day" is a holiday in Newfoundland and Labrador!
I had a British pal explain it to me; Americans dressed like George Armstrong Custer and marched through Indian reservations and then got all confused as why people get angry.
I wonder what it is about an organisation that marches through areas with a large Catholic population, banging drums and singing "We hate Catholics", that leads people to regard them as toxic? Perhaps we will never know.
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They also exist to celebrate Loyalist terrorism.
There was a Canadian branch of the UDA, and weapons were regularly shipped to the UDA and UVF by Canadian supporters during the 70s and 80s.
Some of the most bigoted, outright weird self professed 'Orangemen' I've come across online have been Canadian.