#minceir

Could you elaborate?

(If it’s accurately an apartheid state, that just makes Ireland’s antisemitism even more frustratingly awful AND hypocritical)

An Irish Mincéir activist is currently being attacked by USian leftists & progressives because she was elected the Ethnic Minorities Officer for her students union.

Irish Traveller =/= Irish tourists. That was their first bit of ignorance.

Travellers/Mincéir/Pavee are an indigenous ethnic group as recognised by the UN, the Irish government, and even the fecking UK government. When this was explained to them, the USians switched to victim blaming them and saying it wasn’t racism but the result of Travellers not respecting the property rights of settled people 🤔 and that discrimination against ethnic minority groups isn’t racism 🤔

Mincéir face more discrimination than any other ethnic group in Ireland. It’s frequently referred to as “The last acceptable form of racism” and a presidential candidate in our last election gained 36% of the vote based on literally nothing but his anti-Traveller rhetoric.

Irish people of other ethnic minority groups have flooded to her defence...coz they fecking live here!!!

ah! i love why the moon travels, i need to order another copy of it because it's just so good.

as for resources to learn more about minceir / irish travellers & our culture as well as racism we undergo; your first starting points are always going to be pavee point & the irish traveller movement websites. they'll provide a good foundation to start from to then leap off into other areas, & a lot of their information is incredibly digestible & easy to comprehend (i have worked with the team behind it before.)

from there, here are some other articles / resources:

bbc article about the eu commission abt our high suicide rate.

inar report on anti traveller racism in ireland.

lenus report of our public health & pitfalls.

the pontins scandal of blacklisting "traveller" surnames.

tool to challenge anti grt language by mps.