ogugua88: @seanet01,

Why are you taking offense to tribalism being described as foolishness? Are tribal bigots intelligent people?

Alfa Seltzer: better to be tribal than naive.
Naivety have hurt Igbos a lot.

ogugua88:

No one has to be naive. No one had to be tribal either.

theoctopus:

You have never been intelligent and you seem to be getting worse by the day. Just imagine the kind of crap you post. Very low stuff

sarutobie: Seun and his mods saw the writing on the wall but they prefered to promote tribalism,mistrust in exchange for traffic..they saw it coming..now this site has been infested and overrun by low-lives..now they are doing damage control.

Alfa Seltzer: In Utopialand.

ogugua88:

In reality.

Alfa Seltzer:

The fact is that we live in a highly tribal society reflected by the actions and words of the ruling politicians. Expecting us to act otherwise is the foolish thing.

Alfa Seltzer:

First of all, you owe us an apology. But that won't even be enough.

We made Lagos what it is today. Selflessly. We are developing this country single handedly.
You owe us adoration. After seizing our millions in banks, you gave us 20 pounds each and we still come and but lands in ogun and ondo states. Thus sustaining your people. What did you people do with all those stolen millions? Owambe parties?
You owe us servitude. For the amount of development we bring to your place, you should be telling us "thank you" everyday.

We have only been good to you. But always repay with hatred.

Laja Laba: U see one thing about u guys is that u are too loud and boastful...Most of u lack wisdom......Still crying about what happened years ago?think think my friend and write something reasonable...Yoruba owe u nothing.

9jacrip: Summary:

Some particular group started a denigrating e-campaign against a group that continuously let it 'slide'.

Now, the latter group has woken up and proceeded to dishing blows and vile retributions to the former.

These reprisals seem to be taking a toll and becoming in-surmountable. Hence, the back-pedalling and scape-goating their public figures who publicized their views which they previously jeered on which was prevalent on a thread yesterday and now this thread where they are starting to act like they are being victimized and trying to act 'civil' while trying to paint the retaliating group as the criminal.

Now I see they're throwing 'you hate us' tantrum. Why didn't they think of this when they smeared google and yahoo groups with derogatry threads and posting?True word

Talking about getting served.

Alfa Seltzer:

hatred is your reward for our love

Lagosbabe1:

Complex question!

It would largely depend on (a) your definition and (b) interpretation of (1)intelligence and (2) "tribal bigots"

Aigbofa:

May God bless you. Isn't it amusing the type of posters talking about intelligence on Nairaland?
Going by the evolution of bigotry on Nairaland, if people who engage in it are not intelligent then we clearly know which side these unintelligent people came from.
Rabid and hateful people are now suddenly Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi rolled into one because they have been beaten in their stupid game.

Aigbofa:

I understand what your people went through. But how did it translate to eternal hatred some of your people have for Yoruba? One just referred to some phantom enemy. I am grateful too that I did not experience the war, I was not even born yet. But the way some of your people carry on here is a if the civil war is still raging and every Yoruba is their foe.

Alfa Seltzer: It's only in children's fairytales that they live happily ever after. Real life is something else.

Ogugua, I actually understand you and it is the wishful thinking of all Nigerians in diaspora that we become a united country. However what the diasporans should do is come to Nigeria and stay in an area that is not their region for a month and see how it goes.

There is a limit to what you can tolerate. Even you.

Alfa Seltzer:

It's only in children's fairytales that they live happily ever after. Real life is something else.

Ogugua, I actually understand you and it is the wishful thinking of all Nigerians in diaspora that we become a united country. However what the diasporans should do is come to Nigeria and stay in an area that is not their region for a month and see how it goes.

There is a limit to what you can tolerate. Even you.

ogugua88:

I stayed in the SW region for nearly a month during my last visit and experienced absolutely no hostility.

Even if one person abused me, be it verbally or physically, that wouldn't have been enough for me to write off an entire tribe. Tribal bigotry can never be tolerated or understood by me and it's certainly not something my children will ever learn.

I've experienced more intolerance or prejudice from whites (and it's nothing compared to blacks/Africans living in say Texas or Mississippi) and I've never had anything against them. There's no way I'd discriminate against my own countrymen or countrywomen. Tolerating and/or encouraging such is only another step towards regression.

birdman:

Keep deceiving yourself. You are living in your own head, making stuff up to justify your hate.. Every region in Nigeria has some strain of tribalism. The Southwest though is by far the most liberal. Hasua, Igbo, etc all settle in the southwest, own businesses and get so comfortable they identify with their host states just as much as their home states. If the SW was as nasty as you say, you would have left by now. Interestingly, you seem to conveniently ignore your brethren (and other Nigerians) being slaughtered any time there is some wahala up north.

Younger Nigerians in diaspora understand they world they live in. All the civil war and tribal baggage parents keep trying to foist on their kids melt in the face of reality: being a black man, of any ethnic group, anywhere in the world is hard. Division gets you nowhere.

opeyemmmy:

Bro, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. You can't have your cake and eat it.

Tolexander: why?

I don't really take things here on nairaland serious anyway, maybe because I hardly read posts below my posts unless being quoted.
My sig is my watchword anyway.

If you leave, i will go on hunger strike and won't eat until you are back.

Alfa Seltzer:

You still think you can cure tribalism with ban button?

Aigbofa:

How I respond to your attacks is up to me. If you live in a glass house, I would advise you to desist from throwing stones.

biafranqueen: i agree with you, For the past 10 years going to Nigeria staying 4-6 months at a time I have never experienced tribalism, but I think that because we are considered visitors we may not experience it. Even if you were born and raised in Nigeria, you spend 3-4 years out of your country, you are automatically Oyibo, they detect you right away somehow I personally have grown up visiting families from different tribes and never experienced it but I can tell you that what ever you place your focus on you will attract it to your life. For example if you always complain of dating the wrong man or that all men are dogs you will always end up with a dog. If you feel other tribes hate you, then you will always attract those that do. Your perception is your reality!

Mynd_44: When I come to NL and see things like Igbo and Yorubas fighting, I can't help but laugh my backside out. Not because the insults are funny (which they are) but the ignorance being displayed.

I grew up in different parts of Nigeria. I have lived in the north, south east, port-har-court, Lagos, Ibadan and Ekiti and I can say that I have not seen one case of tribalist until I got to NL.

The closest thing I have seen about tribal ish is when friends gather and mock each other's culture and tradition and no offence is meant. I have had Igbo neighbours and still do. But I have never seen them as different neither they see me like that.

I told a friend that the issue of tribalist is due to poverty and joblessness which is true. If you look at the Ladipo incidence some weeks back where people on NL were talking like the Igbos and Yorubas were killing one another. I went there with a friend and it was as peaceful as anything else with Igbo/Yoruba and everyone else was doing their business and making money.

When there is money to be made, Nigerian don't care where you are from. If you are Igbo but you have something anyone needs, they don't care but when one person is poor, he looks for who to blame for his woes and he creates enemies.

Go to the bars and clubs at night and see how people of different tribes are together drinking and spending cash while broke people and people who probably have not spent a day in Nigeria talk about a tribe anyhow.

I personally know a lady on NL who cannot point at her state on a map of Nigeria(she is yoruba) yet she is always insulting Igbos

ogugua88: A lot of the people hurling insults, threats, and curses online struggle to kill common mosquito. Such "bravado", if you will, isn't easy to come by in real life.

russellino:

Very cowardly and immature justification. Even the most debased and twisted cowards would frown at uploading pics of starving kids to gloat. I guess u are something new to science.

Alfa Seltzer:

First of all, you owe us an apology. But that won't even be enough.

We made Lagos what it is today. Selflessly. We are developing this country single handedly.
You owe us adoration. After seizing our millions in banks, you gave us 20 pounds each and we still come and but lands in ogun and ondo states. Thus sustaining your people. What did you people do with all those stolen millions? Owambe parties?
You owe us servitude. For the amount of development we bring to your place, you should be telling us "thank you" everyday.

We have only been good to you. But always repay with hatred.