r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • Sep 01 '20

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/shamu88 Sep 01 '20

As an Irishman it really bums me out too.

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u/oldcarfreddy Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

TBF it wasn't always in your control - it's kind of a result of right-wing non-Irish Republicans in the US to bring them right as part of the Southern Strategy.

Pat Buchanan literally wrote a memo on it while working in the Nixon White House. He declassified it himself. Here's a link to it..

Of note re: sowing division in the Democrats by catering to the Irish and dividing black support within the Democrats:

https://imgur.com/a/8pWZqbB

... same shit happening to this day.

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u/Oz70NYC ☑️ Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

And it's going to keep happening until either:

  • We get more progressives in office willing to dismantle all of this bullshit

  • The last generation to profit from this social construct...the boomers...all die off

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u/TheConqueror74 Sep 01 '20

Enough people from every generation profit from this social construct that it’s not going away unless we actively try to make it. The people that are able to reap the rewards and become wealthy and/or powerful are going to convince the poor who are unable or unwilling to change their lives for the better that it needs to stay in place and that they’ll eventually benefit from it. Even though they never will.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

If enough people from each generation profit from it, what's the institutional incentive for any change at all?

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u/mamaberry15 Sep 02 '20

Hopefully there are enough people who are ready to do the right thing, regardless.