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Yeah, it's probably the worst comment I've ever seen Rayiner write. (This is the nicest way I can word this comment; it'd be impossible for me to say what I rea
by pcwalton 2y ago
Yeah, it's probably the worst comment I've ever seen Rayiner write. (This is the nicest way I can word this comment; it'd be impossible for me to say what I really feel about that insult to my heritage without breaking the site guidelines.)
Irish people such as my ancestors fought and died for America in WWII. They were among the finest patriots who served the country.
- justin66 2y agoIt was a demented comment. Like the parent commenter, I'm living in a city built in large part by Irish and Italian immigrants (as well as members of a couple of other ethnic groups which people are happy to mock, if they're the kind of people who mock ethnic groups) well before FDR was elected (WTF?) and... I just don't know where to begin...
- rayiner 2y ago[flagged]
- dctoedt 2y ago> The country was supposed to look more like New Hampshire than New York. Really? Where is that written, and by whom? New Hampshire as of 1491?
- rayiner 2y agoThe Federalist Papers.
- pcwalton 2y agoI'm loath to engage more with this weird anti-Irish prejudice, but I should point out that your blaming the Irish (and Italians apparently?) for FDR is ahistorical. FDR won 42 of 48 states and won the popular vote against Hoover by 17%, about 7 million votes. The total number of Irish immigrants who arrived in the US during that time was like 350k [1]. Needless to say, FDR was also not Catholic. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Americans#Mid-19th_century_and_later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Americans#Mid-19th_centu...