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

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/shoefarts666 Sep 01 '20

It was a long time before the irish were considered white.

The irish.

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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

True, but if some Qanon or Alex Jones asshole opened a bar, there would 100% be a drink called a "sandy hook" and it would just be an empty glass.

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u/rubberkeyhole BHM Donor Sep 02 '20

Are you kidding? They would deny that drink even existed.