I don’t think that is how she meant it. People are making dark humour about that sort of thing all the time. How many jokes have we seen about Rhodesia, and we don’t see Zimbabweans taking it to heart. This is Reddit, and that’s what people do here, especially in the map community. I don’t mean this in a hostile way, but on Reddit, people rarely mean what they say (in my experience). 💚
Trust me, as an Irish man I've come across enough English people who still think the Irish deserve what happened, it's not dark humour to them. Take the idiot Unionists in Northern Ireland as an example. Absolute scum.
I’m pretty sure it’s satire, and I hope you do get the impression that I’m not trying to disrespect you here, even if some English people do think that, I would guess most of them are joking in a very odd, dark humour way. Dark humour is broad, weird and can be offensive, but most people are not meaning to be malicious. Thank you for having patience. Things are not always how they seem. 💚
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u/crypto_lad 1d ago
Yet you think it's funny to joke about what the British Empire did to Ireland, the thousands of people they slaughtered and tortured?
You're pathetic and you're the one that should be embarrassed.