A friend said to me that people say, “those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it,” but much more troubling are the people who do remember history and who are eager to repeat it.
Which is basically inevitable. It’s like @Melz2 said above about the this being the most deeply ingrained tribalism. If they attack anyone in your group you are justified in retaliating against anyone in their group. Vulnerable minorities are not going to do well under those conditions. Imagine being an Hindu Indian immigrant and getting stopped by some guys who want to know if you are Catholic or Protestant.
A word of caution about your phrasing. To my Canadian eyes this read as, “Fuck every immigrant who came to NI a the height of the troubles.” I basically felt it was impossible that you did mean this so I dug into alternate meanings and put in the British “fuck all” meaning “zero”, but it was pretty jarring.
