Wednesday 26 June 2013

Wash Out

Ah, the Magdalene Laundries again. I always pronounce their name "Mawdlin", like the Oxbridge colleges. Everyone should.

It would obviously have been better for those girls in trouble to have slept on the streets, wouldn't it?

They would have had better lives as the beggars or prostitutes that they would otherwise have been, wouldn't they?

They would have been so much better-treated over here in those days, wouldn't they?

The work of a washerwoman is beneath human dignity, isn't it? 

Leaving school at 14 and going into work was otherwise unheard of among people now in their seventies and eighties, wasn't it?

No one else of that generation ever experienced violence at work, did they?

And insofar as there was wrong done, then the Irish State, not the Catholic Church, has clearly accepted the blame for it.

Since it is the Irish State, not the Catholic Church, that  is paying out to the victims of it.

2 comments:

  1. That's because Vatican plc never accepts responsibility for anything. I would expect nothing less from the most evil and corrupt institution in contemporary society.

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  2. The Irish State has accepted the blame of its own volition, although I am not sure for what. If anything, it and the Church ought to be fighting over the credit for having kept these girls off the streets.

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