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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Smdh Australia's so backwards they're doing a potato famine era racism towards the Irish.

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

I don't see how this is different from any anti-immigrant sentiment: more demand for housing, more competition for jobs, the usual talking points

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anti-immigrant sentiment is usually only applied to people on the wrong side of us-foreign-policy

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Australia’s racism couldn’t be confined to the 21st century, they had to reach back and pull out some antique racism. Kicking the Irish back out of whiteness.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Australians are just Brits on a larger island, anyway.

Makes sense they'd try to kick out the Irish.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Were the irish ever really allowed into whiteness? Not the like 5th generation american ones i mean, the actual irish.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Probably in the USA people stopped caring about whether or not you were Irish some time after the 1940s. In the UK anti-irish racism continued throughout the troubles well into the 90s, and there are still some English people who have stuck with the good old tradition of hating Irish people (though much less now).

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

americans learned to accept the irish after a famous politician of irish extraction dedicated his life to transparency, even going so far as to show the inside of his mind to the american people.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Pretty mind blowing moment tbf

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly surprised neo-nazis haven't tried doing the aryan neo-pagan thing with the irish yet: white skin, red hair, vaguely pagan celtic aesthetics co-opted as like a second pole of aryan ubermensch.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I mean, he says it right there: it's not about skin colour it's economic

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its their hibernian skullshapes

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"As you can see, I am not being racist, I'm clearly being xenophobic."

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