So needlessly aggressive though the last line is funny I must admit. That’s twitter for you I suppose
Do the problematic views on ‘black folk’ make the claim to Irishness worse? Would have thought it’s unrelated.
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I think it’s disingenuous to assume that the revolutionaries were automatically not racist.
I mean, “Ireland for the Irish” was a pretty big concept. Nationalism easily extends to hating foreigners
I’m an American of partial Irish descent. I’ve studied Irish history closely not because I think of myself as Irish (I’m thoroughly American) but because I find it so interesting. The Irish culture is one of the worlds finest. I cannot get enough of it and hope to visit soon. It really saddens me that so many of you seem to dislike us with such a passion, because so many of us love you very much.
What? Bloodline does make who you are. I have a lot of Irish ancestry in me. My last name on both sides of my parents is Irish. I can even apply for Irish citizenship if I want. I’m sure I could easily trace back to living relatives in Ireland.
Edit: for the downvoters, no hard feelings, ignorant people in every country.
Irish here, from Ireland…. it is late and I’m tired but I don’t understand this post at all….what….
So a guy with a nuke in his profile insults a guy with a plane in his. Wtf.
Why would an airplane lover visit Ireland?
Americans’ obsession with blood and race is so creepy. They use it like a much more problematic astrology, ascribing all kinds of personality traits to it.
It amuses me to finally see a Yankee called out for the racism they only see in others. I have no doubt that he had no idea. They never do.
Hating on America still in vogue I see, god forbid they get notions about themselves, particularly amongst us, who behave, as a *race* (group?), pretty *superior* in this context.
I’m American. I wouldn’t consider myself Irish unless I acquired Irish citizenship and lived there. I am of partial Irish descent but that doesn’t mean much. Most of my family immigrated to the US from Eastern Europe. I don’t consider myself Lithuanian either.
Civic nationalism is way, way preferable to ethnic nationalism IMO. I don’t care about race, though I do think some level of alignment on common values is important for the proper functioning of society.
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Both of them are knobs. Airplanes are cool.
Really cool plane man made me giggle.
So needlessly aggressive though the last line is funny I must admit. That’s twitter for you I suppose
Do the problematic views on ‘black folk’ make the claim to Irishness worse? Would have thought it’s unrelated.
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I think it’s disingenuous to assume that the revolutionaries were automatically not racist.
I mean, “Ireland for the Irish” was a pretty big concept. Nationalism easily extends to hating foreigners
I’m an American of partial Irish descent. I’ve studied Irish history closely not because I think of myself as Irish (I’m thoroughly American) but because I find it so interesting. The Irish culture is one of the worlds finest. I cannot get enough of it and hope to visit soon. It really saddens me that so many of you seem to dislike us with such a passion, because so many of us love you very much.
What? Bloodline does make who you are. I have a lot of Irish ancestry in me. My last name on both sides of my parents is Irish. I can even apply for Irish citizenship if I want. I’m sure I could easily trace back to living relatives in Ireland.
Edit: for the downvoters, no hard feelings, ignorant people in every country.
Irish here, from Ireland…. it is late and I’m tired but I don’t understand this post at all….what….
So a guy with a nuke in his profile insults a guy with a plane in his. Wtf.
Why would an airplane lover visit Ireland?
Americans’ obsession with blood and race is so creepy. They use it like a much more problematic astrology, ascribing all kinds of personality traits to it.
It amuses me to finally see a Yankee called out for the racism they only see in others. I have no doubt that he had no idea. They never do.
Hating on America still in vogue I see, god forbid they get notions about themselves, particularly amongst us, who behave, as a *race* (group?), pretty *superior* in this context.
I’m American. I wouldn’t consider myself Irish unless I acquired Irish citizenship and lived there. I am of partial Irish descent but that doesn’t mean much. Most of my family immigrated to the US from Eastern Europe. I don’t consider myself Lithuanian either.
Civic nationalism is way, way preferable to ethnic nationalism IMO. I don’t care about race, though I do think some level of alignment on common values is important for the proper functioning of society.