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Posted: 2/8/2018 10:49:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My great great grandfather was a German Jew who pretty much got mustered into the Union Army not long after arriving in NY. I wonder what he would have thought about my choice in colleges.  The best COIN campaign the US Army ever fought was against the KKK in the South after the Civil War. The forts stayed there, and now the US Army combat arms are populated disproportionately by the great great grandchildren of the vanquished. |
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Posted: 2/8/2018 11:01:43 PM EDT
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Something about their Roman Potpourri.
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Posted: 2/8/2018 11:38:25 PM EDT
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The point I was trying to make was BLM seems to be the big talking point of the left but so many others have been on the receiving end of racism and hatred in this country. Now you have reverse racism and this idea that the nation owes those a debt we can't repay....sorry but the answer is no we don't. This white guilt crap gets old really fucking fast. Sorry man just talking in general. Try being a white Irish Cop in St Louis going to Ferguson. I'm as guilty as it gets. |
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Posted: 2/8/2018 11:39:47 PM EDT
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They were Papists. Catholics. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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why did everyone hate them anyways "Dirty Protestants" |
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Posted: 2/8/2018 11:42:17 PM EDT
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I'm half Irish and half Pollock so the jokes just keep on coming. 
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Posted: 2/8/2018 11:49:50 PM EDT
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Irish isn't a race, OP is an idiot. You are neither a scholar nor a gentleman, Sir.
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Posted: 2/8/2018 11:49:57 PM EDT
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People overlook the Irish because in America, white people are all the same... right?  That's why Persians from the Middle East are considered "white" (Caucasians) even though they are from a land far away. |
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Posted: 2/9/2018 12:06:28 AM EDT
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My German grandfather use to hum a song which had a line ‘kick him again, he’s Irish!”
Always had a soft spot for the Irish girls myself. |
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Posted: 2/9/2018 1:14:43 AM EDT
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They are probably second only to the Italians in regards to involvement in organized crime.
I'd recommend the movies "State of Grace", "The Town" and "The Departed". |
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Posted: 2/9/2018 10:31:16 AM EDT
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A Modest Proposal. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Most Irish Americans who sympathize with the IRA or try comparing Irish indentured servitude to African chattel slavery (as if it's somehow remotely related and thus just as terrible) understand very little of Irish history. Watching Gangs of New York and Boondock Saints doesn't make you a fucking subject matter expert on Irish history - this is honestly where the majority of Irish Americans get their fervor from. I used to be the same way (being half Irish myself), but then I started reading and learning about all sides of the story of the Irish - not just from IRA sympathizers and drunken hooligans. Calling the Irish "slaves" is misleading. And to address the OP - yes, they had a shitty time when coming to the United States, but the last time I checked they weren't treated (literally) like fucking farm animals... So, just stop with this comparing the Irish to African slaves - it's completely retarded. They weren't treated literally like fucking farm animals...once they were in the United States. Jonathan Swift literally wrote a famous satire piece against the English campaign of Ireland - boiled down, "How do we further subjugate these people for money? IDK we could eat their children that sounds cool" Remember, the English quite literally starved ~15% of the Irish population to death with the Potato Famine. Famine doesn't occur naturally - it's a man-made disaster, usually as an act of war. Another ~10-15% left the country due to English overreach and lack of work, cutting the country's population by a quarter. |
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Posted: 2/9/2018 10:35:22 AM EDT
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Most people refuse to accept the concept that white Irish people were treated worse than blacks at one time. It just doesn’t fit the narrative
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Posted: 2/9/2018 10:49:52 AM EDT
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Because most people then were White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, and having a bunch of Ginger Celtic Papists around upset them. ETA: and because the Italians and Slavs hadn't arrived yet. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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why did everyone hate them anyways ETA: and because the Italians and Slavs hadn't arrived yet. Screw the Irish...wait a minute, who are these people! |
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Posted: 2/9/2018 3:30:31 PM EDT
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Most people refuse to accept the concept that white Irish people were treated worse than blacks at one time. It just doesn't fit the narrative |
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Posted: 2/9/2018 3:32:28 PM EDT
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Quote History You just have to laugh.I'm very proud of my heritage . I'm an American first but I keep my families history close to my heart. |
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Posted: 2/9/2018 3:41:04 PM EDT
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I was hoping this thread would contain Irish redhead chicks...
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Posted: 2/9/2018 3:44:44 PM EDT
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I was hoping this thread would contain Irish redhead chicks... |
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Posted: 2/9/2018 3:59:28 PM EDT
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Nope those signs didn't exist. They're a modern created kitch for Irish folks too hang in their rec rooms. There was "no irish" listed on things like nanny type positions, but the widespread myth that signs were up and Irish were looked on like blacks is pure horse shit. |
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