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We may be talking about different times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots h
by aaron-lebo 8y ago
We may be talking about different times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment
https://www.history.com/news/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis https://www.history.com/news/when-america-despised-the-irish...
I find nothing ahistorical about what I said.
If you go further back and see what Cromwell and others did to the Irish (the first British colonization was in Ireland), and then extend that to the US, where that kind of hatred was shared by Nativists, it is certainly not inaccurate, even if the discrimination is of a different from than what Africans faced.
I dislike the notion that because people aren't African they weren't victims, too, which gets bandied around a lot. We all have tragedies and I see no reason to ignore the plight of one to make the point about another (which the parent post does, wrongly).