My dates get really stoked when we trash maga chud trumpers, but when I whip out my "Obama is a war criminal" or "we should install communism" routines, it def kills the mood

  • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Irish people are white

    Like a god damn bed sheet. You didn't ruin those nice lunches, fam. They did.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      3 years ago

      I always say Irish people aren't. We weren't once and I'll never see myself as one. You can't really define what it means to be white, just what isn't white. I acknowledge I have white privilege and currently benefit from colonialism, that sort of thing. But I firmly believe "white" people are an adversary and I'm only temporarily safe until whiteness is no more.

      • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I think in the US Irish people are pretty explicitly white, if you're in the UK you definitely have a point though

        • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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          3 years ago

          I'm from burgerland. I know in a "real" examination of race, and by that I mean if you are comparing housing of white people versus minorities or education levels or something actually important, Irish people are white. buried in a rant I wrote the other day about my relationship to being of Irish descent you can get the feel that I know Irish culture in America is dead, subsumed into whiteness. I wouldn't say I'm POC on a survey. But, in a very meaningful sense, I don't see myself as white.