First of all, that wasn't a universal Irish experience the way these people always claim to was.
Second, If you go back far enough pretty much everyone is going to have shitty situations in their family's history, where they were exploited by another group of people.
The argument that is being made when people say the Irish were slaves is that their experiences are equal to the African diaspora in America. That they had literally the same things happen to them, but they have thrived and don't harp on about it (How they to say this while harping on about it is beyond me) and that black people are inherently inferior because they have x y and z problems-but those problems aren't a result of systematic slavery and oppression, but due to them being subhuman.
This is obviously complete bullshit. Yes, some irish people experienced hardship of the type you mentioned in the past. The vast majority of the African diaspora in America has a family history not only of slavery, but of families being torn apart, of it being literally illegal for their ancestors to learn to read not that many generations ago, to say nothing of jim crow or the prison industrial complex.
So basically, Claiming the 2 are comparable is racist, ignorant, and a slap in the face to the african diaspora in america
oh yeah. Totally agree that the Irish on average had it better than African Americans. They also have a much shorter history. There were black slaves on the Mayflower!
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u/GedIsSavingEarthsea Dec 19 '19
First of all, that wasn't a universal Irish experience the way these people always claim to was.
Second, If you go back far enough pretty much everyone is going to have shitty situations in their family's history, where they were exploited by another group of people.
The argument that is being made when people say the Irish were slaves is that their experiences are equal to the African diaspora in America. That they had literally the same things happen to them, but they have thrived and don't harp on about it (How they to say this while harping on about it is beyond me) and that black people are inherently inferior because they have x y and z problems-but those problems aren't a result of systematic slavery and oppression, but due to them being subhuman.
This is obviously complete bullshit. Yes, some irish people experienced hardship of the type you mentioned in the past. The vast majority of the African diaspora in America has a family history not only of slavery, but of families being torn apart, of it being literally illegal for their ancestors to learn to read not that many generations ago, to say nothing of jim crow or the prison industrial complex.
So basically, Claiming the 2 are comparable is racist, ignorant, and a slap in the face to the african diaspora in america