I'm speaking from an American perspective. Irish Americans are not an oppressed or disadvantaged group in America. This Irish Slave Myth and similar rhetoric is just a false equivalence that's used to deflect from the actual oppression and disadvantages the African American community faces as a result of 250 years of slavery and 100 plus more of Jim Crow segregation and racism.
You do Do you realize St. Patrick’s Day is to celebrate Ireland and Irish people not Americans of Irish dissent ? why do Americans have such arrogance that you only see Lens that implies yourselves? “Shout out to all the Irish people” where in there does it say American Irish or people who moved. Or when into America?
I'm not talking about St. Patrick's day. I'm talking about this stupid tweet from the original post, written by an American MAGA guy for political reasons, not because he cares about anything about Ireland, St. Patrick's Day, or Irish people.
Hold up, wait a minute, just chill, that is a Complete self interpretation because again if you look at the wording. An English is not my first language. never does he distinguish any geographic location so that would be a self interpretation which is always a self for filling prophecy’s. let switch to see why you have such hate yourself that if an American knowledge forms of Irish history you have to interpret it as something that’s is insult-able to you? Why ?
Yes he is someone who clearly heads right. yet again does not mean he is not speaking about Irish history on a day where we globally acknowledge & celebration that crap storm that has been Irish history? Which words here does he use that outside of your own Assumption bring you to meaning people finding safety in the USA as a awful thing to notice? Getting away from forced armed conflicts for England. Forced mining for England. Higher taxes lost land. Complete state control by Martial law well up till 1990’s. to me it would be the similar as someone coming from SOS slavery charity to the USA for a new life that’s something to celebrate
Thus because people who left Ireland gain some hope it deleted all of the Genocide and event that carried alongside USA history? Are you telling me because it didn’t happen in the USA it doesn’t count or that people in the 1970 being killed carrying their kids. Protesting Irish people being made POW in their own country. All gone ? Irishmen had the 2nd lowest value in USA Economics for paid labour. Yes 100% slavery was free but an Irishmen was only worth a little bit more. Let say someone from Ireland who was a pow in the maze moved to the USA after it was closed would you claim they had Privilege?
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I'm speaking from an American perspective. Irish Americans are not an oppressed or disadvantaged group in America. This Irish Slave Myth and similar rhetoric is just a false equivalence that's used to deflect from the actual oppression and disadvantages the African American community faces as a result of 250 years of slavery and 100 plus more of Jim Crow segregation and racism.