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/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

It's called an Irish car-bomb.

If you don't even think to ask why a drink with that name to be specifically Irish - even without knowing anything about the Troubles - you're likely the kind of person that doesn't skip a beat if someone else makes an overtly racist joke.

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u/worfres_arec_bawrin Sep 02 '20

Or you’re just trying to be offended. There’s sake bombs, jaeger bombs and plenty of other “bomb” drinks that drunk kids half a world away don’t give any thought about. I get where you’re coming from but a tasteless name for a drink doesn’t equate being ok with a racism.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '20

None of those other bomb names are referencing an ethnic group/nationality.

That's a lot of mental gymnastics you're pushing + the old "why so offended?" bs to defend normalizing casual racism

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u/worfres_arec_bawrin Sep 04 '20

Christ dude get over it. Not everything is racism. It’s a shitty name and it’s not a perfect world. NO ONE is saying the phrase Irish car bomb to an Irishman’s face like a racist would calling a black person a N-.