Given that tea is literally one of the products of imperialism that the denizens of the British isles cannot enjoy without having enslaved entire nations for th

Given that tea is literally one of the products of imperialism that the denizens of the British isles cannot enjoy without having enslaved entire nations for the purpose, it is no surprise that the Irish were imbued with the class warfare inherent in the production and acquisition of this resource. What's shocking is how poorly the classism is recognized in this discourse. If one is 'poor quality class' because of how one drinks tea, then one is entirely in an utterly degraded class on the basis of how that tea was obtained, for the nation, in the first place ..