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I don’t know who needs to hear this but, i know it’s hard for a lot of Italian and Irish people to wrap their head around because y'all just started being white in the 1940s but y'all do benefit from white privilege.

Seeing as the Irish were slaves along with us and they themselves and the Italians suffered through segregation with us, I’m gonna say that’s a big negative right there sir.

Well you’re wrong. And the irish weren’t slaves. And they didn’t suffer through segregation with us. This is a wild stupid comment

Maybe you should take an African American studies class on an HBCU like I did. Maybe you should educate yourself on the suffering of others. But oh well.

I guess no irish allowed signs right next to no blacks allowed isn’t segregation. But oh well. I guess Italians need not apply right next to blacks need not apply isn’t segregation. Lol but oh well. Nice try tho.

When will a*ericans understand that things are quite literally not black and white?

some of us are just? rlly stupid i guess sorry

this was a really informative post

See, this is the kind of shit I was talking about.

As usual, Tumblr idiots think you can’t go through any sort of oppression whatsoever just because of your skin colour and go around dictating others’ history

The Irish quite literally spent around 1000 years under the forced rule of the British. During which point they had very little say in the major affairs of state, had their own lands taken from them by force, and had no recourse against British rule. “Locked up by the Foreigner” was a common way to say that a political activist was imprisoned by British force. They experienced a genocide during the Potato Famine because British administration forced them to prioritize cash crops rather than a diverse food supply, so when blight came through it destroyed the potatoes they were relying on to survive. The population of Ireland *still* has not reached the level it was before the famine. A few hundred thousand Irishmen fought for the Commonwealth during the World Wars, leading to the Easter Rising in the homeland when they noted the outright hypocrisy of the British fighting so small nations might be free, but the Irish were still to remain a subject state of British rule. Better to die beneath an Irish sky than at Sulva or Sud-El-Bar. In America they were discriminated against because they were considered drunk foreigners (specifically Catholics) who brought their problems with them into the country, and opened up the Papacy interfering in American policy. “Irish need not apply” was a very common concept alongside discrimination against the Black population and the Chinese during their own mass immigration. To this very day there are still ongoing attempts to downplay Gaelic history and language use. The struggles of the Black community in the United States has been a very public and trying thing, but don’t you bloody dare try to imply that the Irish had it easy because they were White. The more you ignorant sods talk the more I realize that “intersectionality” doesn’t mean evaluating things along anthropological lines and trying to recognize biases, but rather a convenient way for the “woke” to lump everyone together that wouldn’t normally apply as being privileged. Like the Irish, or the Slavs, or Poles. All of which have experienced racism, discrimination, and hostile rule.

Remember internment camps? It’s widely believed that only Japanese Americans were sent to those camps but in fact Germans and Italians were also captured and sent to those camps. A large swath of American immigrant history was lost during mass book burnings of German texts and anything written in German.

White people are still white

Just because Irish people have a history of ALSO being repressed doesn’t mean that as a group, Irish-Americans IN PRESENT DAY USA benefit from white privilege. OP never said Irish people were never discriminated against. OP never said there are zero long-term consequences for some of the discrimination that happened historically. But if you try to use something that happened in the 19th century, or evidence from another country entirely, to prove that present-day Irish-Americans don’t benefit from white privilege? Yeah, fuck you.

If Irish people never had slaves then how do some of us have Irish surnames?

The irish in America suffered from indentured servitude of labour, which they would serve for only a specific period of time. Servants could legally request to leave before their term ended due to mistreatment. Children of indentured servants were born free with no obligation to serve. Children of chattel slaves were born into slavery and were property. Indentured servitude is not the same as chattel slavery.

This is hilarious! Being a peasant is different from being a slave, No Irish need to Apply is not the equivalent to chains and whips for 400years. Ridiculous!

I’m SO glad y'all came and stopped these people from making them seem like they were in the same boat of black Americans. No sir, no sir, you’re still white and you still have privilege and always did have that privilege.

These headasses it was VERY clear what OP was talking about and in the U.S they fucking benefit from white privilege to the point where they often are the perpetrators of racism lmfao. When the irish made up with police force in NY and still have a big population there what do you guys think happened? Fucking hell always demonizing poc for pointing out white privilege.

The Irish need to hand Black People money tomorrow for all the shit they brought to this post. Acting like the crackers they are while insisting they had it ‘ so hard’. Fuck outta here with that mess wtf?

NO AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES CLASS SAID THE IRISH WERE SLAVES LIKE BLCK PEOPLE. You lied and you need not shame your respective HBCU like that.

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