In Irland lebende Ausländer fühlen sich in letzter Zeit zunehmend unwohl
Ich bin Ausländer und lebe seit dreieinhalb Jahren in Irland. Ich liebe das Land und die Leute hier wirklich (ja, sogar das Wetter).
Alle meine Kollegen sind Iren, und sie waren einfach großartig für mich – freundlich, einladend und unterstützend in jeder Hinsicht. Meine Alltagserfahrung im wirklichen Leben war überwältigend positiv.
Allerdings habe ich im letzten Jahr oder so eine besorgniserregende Zunahme offen rassistischer und einwanderungsfeindlicher Inhalte in sozialen Medien, insbesondere auf Facebook und Instagram, festgestellt. Kürzlich bin ich auf ein Video gestoßen, das eine Schlange vor etwas zeigt, das zu Weihnachten wie eine Kneipe oder ein Restaurant aussieht. Es schien, dass viele Ausländer in der Warteschlange standen, und die Bildunterschrift und Kommentare waren wirklich abscheulich.
Ich verstehe vollkommen, dass Irland mit einer Immobilienkrise und anderen ernsten Herausforderungen konfrontiert ist, und ich kann mir vorstellen, dass diese Frustration in die Vorstellung umschlagen kann: „Sie nehmen uns, was rechtmäßig uns gehört.“ Aber es fällt mir schwer zu verstehen, warum Menschen, die legal hierher gekommen sind, Vollzeit arbeiten und Steuern zahlen, als Kolonisatoren behandelt werden.
Viele Ausländer arbeiten in wichtigen Sektoren wie dem Gesundheitswesen und der IT. Internationale Studierende zahlen zwischen 15.000 und 35.000 Euro für Masterabschlüsse, Geld, das auch direkt in die Wirtschaft einfließt. Dennoch scheint die Feindseligkeit im Internet zu wachsen.
In letzter Zeit habe ich Angst vor dem Ausgehen, etwas, das ich noch nie zuvor wirklich gespürt habe. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich zu viel darüber nachdenke oder ob andere – Iren oder Nicht-Iren – diesen Wandel ebenfalls bemerkt haben. Mir ist auch klar, dass Social-Media-Algorithmen extreme Inhalte verstärken, und ich bin vielleicht in dieses Kaninchenloch geraten, aber es ist immer noch beunruhigend.
Ich habe absolut nicht die Absicht, jemandem zu schaden oder Ärger zu machen. Ich wollte nur mitteilen, wie schlecht ich mich dadurch gefühlt habe, und fragen, ob andere den gleichen Trend beobachtet haben oder ob diese Trennung zwischen Online-Hass und realen Interaktionen auch etwas ist, mit dem sich die Menschen auseinandersetzen.
(Das Foto, das ich hinzugefügt habe, ist von einem der Hunderten von Beiträgen, die ich in der letzten Woche gesehen habe.)
https://i.redd.it/e5su3f36uzbg1.jpeg
Von SpecificSun2720
31 Kommentare
The crowd on Facebook and X are the minority, a very loud minority but a minority none the less..
In England here and we’re facing the same. It’s deeply concerning to see the rise of blatant racism and xenophobia online like this.
It’s radicalising some people, fuelling social tensions and threatening community cohesion up and down the country.
It’s not healthy in any way, and could drive productive immigrants out of key sectors like academia, healthcare, construction, hospitality, etc. Which, I guess for racists, is the point. But nobody wins from it.
My advice would be keep speaking your truth – making posts like this, and bridging divisions. Voices like yours are necessary guardrails against hate.
AI generated images is the best thing to ever happen to this shower of windbags
A huge % of it (as was proven when X flipped open the location of posters) is also just bot farmed and driven internationally.
We need to tackle the social media companies, but nobody’s really willing to grasp the nettle – we’re still in the sending stiff letters and asking them to be nice mode.
Stop reading bots on TikTok.
A lot of this anti immigration content comes from the UK,USA & Russia if it helps at all. But I can’t imagine how unnerving it must be to see so much of it online and the home grown scumbags sprouting it.
We’re nearly 9 million people fewer than we should be at this stage thanks to British colonialism and still these people think we’re somehow full.
Don’t look at social media, look at the election results. Clowns like the national party barely got any votes. The reason being, bots can’t vote.
Social media needs to be banned completely.
Mostly Rage Bait ‘content’ created for clicks.
Its not real, your more than welcome here by the vast majority.
Where did you see this pic posted?
2018 – Ireland whinges about bringing more workers to boost the economy.
2024 – Ireland whinges it can’t house the workers it asked for because it forgot to build houses for 15 years
Fucking typical. We need the immigrant workers, we still do. Just stupid people blame the immigrants rather than the multiple short sighted governments that didn’t get homes built.
I can stop looking at social media, but when the pedestrian button at the red light on my street has a sticker with the Irish flag and a legend „Ireland for the Irish“ I can only feel frightened for myself and my children.
Same as OP, came here legally, became a citizen and I was loving it until it all started to happen in real life, not social media.
I fully understand the anger and frustration about the housing situation, but I feel it is misled by the same people that created this situation.
If you don’t allow reasonable conversation in the public forum, this stuff grows online. The people making posts like this don’t know the difference between an asylum seeker, a EU migrant and an economic migrant from outside the EU, Why? Because as soon as anybody brings up the subject they’re labelled a racist and shunned, so they go on FB to their echo chamber. This is happening all over the world, and the response has been to bring in draconian speech laws which only makes the problem worse.
Please ignore the social media crap and AI slop. It’s bots and racists not even in Ireland. Yes there are a handful of racist such as the dog kicker in Ireland but their content is magnified by the bots and racists outside Ireland.
As others have said, our election results don’t reflect these eacists in any meaningful way. They got less then 1% in the last election.
„I heard you want your country back? SHUT THE FUCK UP!“
social media is not a true reflection of reality.
I have left facebook and instagram and twitter/x behind.
let’s please look at the real world in 2026.
you are welcome here.
Best thing to do is chat to human beings
AI slop and an AI written slop post.
I’ve never had tiktok, I deleted my Facebook and Instagram – the majority are bots, that’s why I left. It’s not enjoyable. Making everyone angry. I’m not saying racism doesn’t exist. But if you only have online examples maybe it’s an online problem rather than real life.
I used to enjoy SM like 10 years ago when people used to just put up heavily filtered pictures of their dinners.
The people who are supportive of immigration don’t go online boasting about it, or even in person. Don’t consider social media presence and some isolated eejits shouting racial nonsense a good representation of what people in general think.
Anyone who reads this(the screenshot) and doesn’t immediately disregard it after seeing „vassel“ and „Eyeland“, shouldn’t be taken seriously.
But the whole problem is that we live in a world where a significant vocal minority believe, and fall for, this fucking shit.
It’s much easier to persuade the casual mind, and there’s far more of those around than people who won’t fall for this. Herein lies the problem.
This kind of stuff just helps the argument of requiring an ID to have the likes of a Facebook account.
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Lads f&&k off with this shite seriously!!
Athe UK went to the right with Brexit and they are a f&&king mess since!
Seriously if it’s not Musk or the Russians or both combined they are trying to force feed us that our own country is burning and some of you idiots aren’t going outside to see things are absolutely fine. Sure we have our little problems but show me a country that doesn’t ffs. An EU in ruin is exactly what the US and Russia want so they can swoop in and claim what’s left.
Please stop falling for this garbage we are Irish now and always will be and will always welcome those less fortunate. Need we have to f&&king remind people we STILL TODAY emigrate in large numbers around the world just like we’ve done for generations it’s beyond hypocrisy
Same dope probably holidays in lanzarote, has never stepped inside a church, „gan gaelige“, doesn’t have a clue what nobel prize in literature won by Irish writers, relies on uber eats for grub and supports and English football team.
We used to be the 3rd world migrants.
People are being radicalised online. I know people who never uttered a racist or xenophobic word in their lives who’ve come out with some stuff in the last year or two that I was taken aback by. They’ve invariably been online and/or spending time around people who have. Ally that to the complete shitshow of housing, hospital overcrowding etc. and when you have people pointing fingers at immigrants as the cause, many people are too thick to see how they’re being led. Simple answers to complicated questions.
But the reality is, the online stuff is being driven by a vocal minority and bot farms. People aren’t alert to that and think they’re part of a big movement and they’re just not. Ignore them and hopefully they’ll cop on and go back to football or UFC etc. as their main interest instead of politics.
You can tell by the way this is written that no Irish man or woman was involved in creating it
Why are we acting like this country hasn’t been completely flooded with non natives in the last 28 years
That poster probably wasn’t even made in Ireland or by an Irish person.
so just fuckin chill out everything’s fine (mostly).