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It's not exactly hard to prove that this used to appear in newspapers all the time. A 10 second search on the LOC website shows a ton of examples of this phrase
by aaronbrethorst 11y ago
It's not exactly hard to prove that this used to appear in newspapers all the time. A 10 second search on the LOC website shows a ton of examples of this phrase appearing in papers across America: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1836&date2=1922&proxtext=%22no+irish+need+apply%22&x=0&y=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?stat...
Professor Jensen should be ashamed of himself for failing to conduct even the most trivial searches for this information.
- unstabilo 11y agoYou didn't read the search results. Those are not ads, but articles mentioning the phrase, at least on the first page (20 articles).
- azernik 11y agoNews articles mentioning the phrase were exactly what Jensen claimed would have appeared if the signs existed, and whose absence he claimed proved the non-existence of these signs. Fried just took the additional initiative of going directly to the newspaper ads, which are primary sources indicating discrimination, rather than the secondary sources of newspaper articles talking about the discrimination.
- DanBC 11y agoHe accepted that ads were discriminatory. His original paper mentions job ads. His claim was about signs in windows or on buildings. The fact that he accepts the ads were real makes his claim that Irish were delusionally propagating a myth of oppression even harder to understand.
- DonHopkins 11y agoHis research is as sloppy as his proofreading. I can see him sputtering and fuming as he angrily types out that last condescending reply to her.
- randyrand 11y agoAshamed? Lol I think he'll be just fine.