Bloody Sunday, also known as the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre of Irish anti-internment protesters by the British government that took place on this day in 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.
Bloody Sunday resulted in the highest number of people killed in a shooting incident during the Troubles and remains the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history. This violence was in response to a protest organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in opposition to a state policy of internment without trial, introduced in August of 1971.
On January 18th, 1972, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner banned all parades and marches in response to widespread civil unrest. The protest march was organized despite this order.
On the day of the protest, approximately 10,000-15,000 joined the march, however their path was blocked by British Army barriers. The protest descended into chaos, with British soldiers chasing down protesters and attacking them indiscriminately. 26 people were shot, 14 were killed. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers or attending to the wounded, while others were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, batons, or being ran down by army vehicles.
The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion Parachute Army, which had perpetrated the Ballymurphy Massacre just months prior. The events of Bloody Sunday greatly increased hostilities between Northern Ireland and the British government. Support for and recruitment by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) rose following the massacre.
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Seems like some people have a real issue knowing the difference between a-social and anti-social? Someone posted a take about how its bad that we’ve basically accepted people playing music, watching tiktoks or having loud phone games on without headphones in enclosed spaces like public transportation, and called it antisocial.
And there were a surprising amount of people quote tweeting that with “Actually its more antisocial to wear headphones, if you listen to music without them you’re really actually sharing that experience with the people around you.” And aside from that being IMO a goofy ass take from someone who doesnt ride the bus, thats just literally not true by the definitions of the words, its more asocial to wear headphones and block out your surroundings, but its definitely not antisocial, as in disrupting society around you.
Of course, theres discourse to be had if antisocial as a concept and word is fundamentally cop-speak, but that didnt really enter the discourse at all, nor did people take notice that further down the original thread the OP suggested that not wearing headphones while doing loud things on your phone should be put in the DSM definition for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which is a whole different kind of cop brain going on, but nope, all the quote tweets I saw were just complaining about people wearing headphones or how its actually cool and good to blast phone apps on the bus.
Going around and asking people if they don’t mind listening to sick beats: social
Sitting and listening to sick beats without sharing your opinions with other people: asocial
Sitting and listening to sick beats knowing people hate you: antisocial
thanks for these updates, a fun reminder why I never ever ever go on twitter
But also like whaaaat how. I try not to be a noise nazi cause I feel like that’s a white people thing (in a bad way), and being a narc about it and reporting them to the driver or a cop or something is definitely super antisocial, but just blasting shit loud with no regard is also antisocial. Most people I run into on the bus without headphones just play stuff loud enough for themselves to hear it clearly, and while it can still be annoying to hear in the background, I just deal cause like whatever I don’t know their life, and it’s not that annoying. I guess if it was really loud I’d just ask someone to turn it down, but its never been a big issue for me.
If common courtesy is antisocial, then I’m antisocial as shit. Granted I am antisocial as shit and will freely tell anyone who asks as much