#irish oppression

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[swigglegiggle]

when will irish people stop pretending they're actively oppressed

[everythingwasshiny]

I can't with the Irish slavery people today I can't.

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

I was thinking about how strange the argument that white ppl can experience racism > because the Irish, is. Like even if the Irish experienced racism (which they didn't) it was because they were seen as not white. Which makes the argument fall apart

Yeah it’s like people don’t even look at the context of things.

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[miss-bubles]

OK so I just realized in Wonder Woman 2017 Steve Trevor is gonna be an Irish American during WWI working England do you think they will explore that?

[secret-diary-of-an-fa]

The Irish Have  Better Claim on the ‘Oppressed’ Label than 99% of You Self-Indulgent Cocks

I shouldn’t really be blogging at this time of day, but I see that the Fuckwit Fairy has been scattering her cretinous pixie dust all over my dash again, so it falls to me to comment.

You see, I just saw someone trying to deny that the Irish are an oppressed group on the grounds that they don’t have it as bad as black folk in America. That’s what we in the trade call “a fucking stupid argument”. Nobody in the western world has it as bad as black people in America: they suffer from institutional racism on a level that would drive most of us Honky McCrackers mad in less than a week. Setting the bar that high for what counts as ‘oppression’ is just fucking unreasonable: it’s like saying that someone can’t be ill unless they’re actually suffering from cancer.

I don’t know how Irish people are treated in the USA today, but I do know that there probably wouldn’t be such a huge Irish community in the US in the first place if life hadn’t become intolerable in Britain for many (due to economic hardship, systemic discrimination and- oh yeah- all the fucking killing of civilians by armed forces). That’s not a brilliant starting-point for any community. If there’s a general feeling in the US-Irish community that they’re a marginalised group who still suffer from Xenophobia, then (knowing how America tends to treat immigrant communities in general, and knowing about Ireland’s tempestuous history in particular), I’m inclined to fucking believe them. What’s more, it seems like a much better reason to self-identify as an ‘oppressed’ group than some of the bullshit people come up with on this site.

Maybe I’m just tetchy because I’ve got enough Irish blood in me to still be cross at Oliver “Warty” Cromwell over fucking Drogheda, but I think a bigger part of it is the hypocrisy it takes to dismiss the historic plight of the Irish people and the ongoing situation of Irish communities in various parts of the globe. Tumblr is basically one big ‘Oppression Olympics’, and seems grossly unfair to disbar the Irish from said Oppression Olympics, when even the most rudimentary understanding of one fucking GCSE History class will tell you that they have one of the most legitimate claims to being an ‘oppressed’ group out of anyone on this naval-gazing, self-pitying, self-absorbed, witless fucking website.

And why? Can I ask that? Why is their claim suddenly less valid in your fucking heads? Because it’s just not a trendy enough cause? If that’s the case, then you can all piss off, you Starbucks swilling, oppression-as-a-status-symbol bunch of hipster cunts.

[funyuns-n-coffee]

"The Irish were treated terribly too but you don't see them complaining!" Well you don't see people cheering and rewarding the deaths of Irishmen/Irish-Americans yet here we are.

[gett-merkedd]

"The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people and that is precisely what our movement was about."- John Hume, Irish activist