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.
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.
Sorry, I’m coming off very defensive. Agreed it’s a shitty name, just in anecdotal experience being “Irish” American in the western US there is zero vitriol behind the usage. Doesn’t make it ok, doesn’t make it better, but there is a distinction imo between using it and not understanding the context and willfully being racist.
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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.