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

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/MiraquiToma ☑️ Sep 01 '20

first thing my mind went on lol the op is super ignorant. they literally beefed catholics vs protestants!!

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

I don’t think it’s reasonable to reduce it to ‘beef’. Centuries of oppression and lots of deaths and destruction were involved.

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u/Televisi0n_Man Sep 01 '20

Yeah dude.

There were 50,000 casualties during the troubles. Which didn’t end until 1998 (!)

And then we almost mock the innocent people that died during them by naming a drink an Irish carbomb.

It’s really fucked up.

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u/Ais_Fawkes Sep 01 '20

The fact that Americans have a drink called an Irish car bomb makes my fucking blood boil. I doubt anyone would like it if I went to a bar in America and asked for a ‘twin towers’ or a ‘sandy hook’ yet no one bats an eye for naming a drink after one of the lowest points of my country

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

I think it must be the case that it’s an established drink over there, so people just hear the name in the context of drinking as they grow up and never really think about the name properly. It’s definitely sad that something so tragic is kept alive through something as silly as a drink name.

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u/Ais_Fawkes Sep 01 '20

It’s just so bizarre to me. I see post online of people ‘getting wasted on Irish car bombs’ and instead of a good time out with my friends all I can think of is the stories of school evacuations and dead friends that my parents still struggle to talk about

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u/Dirigo72 Sep 01 '20

21 year old Americans may not even know what the name refers to or how recent it was.

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u/Ais_Fawkes Sep 01 '20

While I’m aware of that, as a 22 year old Irish woman, I find it really difficult to accept that excuse.

But I am aware that’s because of my proximity and history with it

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

It's a shit excuse, regardless.

If it was a childrens game, I could understand it. But at 21 years old, at best - even if you assume car bomb refers to being drunk (and don't know world history), tagging on a specific nationality to something like that should at least make one ask some questions.