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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

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      1. It's worth asking what the hell is going on with this tweet. Partially, its the cheap insult humor that the GOP thinks works well for Trump, doing the Beto the same thing Trump does when he calls Warren "Pocahontas."https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1107314663023353864 …

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      On this St. Paddy's Day, a special message from noted Irishman Robert Francis O'Rourke. pic.twitter.com/JRjMEXhZRY
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

      2. The other thing though is that for the ethnonationalist right, increasingly ascendent in today's GOP, the "whiteness" status of groups like the Irish and Jews is still is dispute,

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

      3. You might think that the "whiteness" of Irish Catholics or Ashkenazi Jews was settled a long time ago in America, say 1945 at the latest. But in fact, there's an element of the right that has never been fully comfortable with that expansion of whiteness.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

      4. This can be most clearly seen in the writing of the late Samuel T. Francis, the paleo-conservative thinker whose writings of 1980s and 1990s anticipate Trumpism in many ways. Francis always made a distinction between White Anglo Protestant core America & rest

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

          5. In his book Beautiful Losers (1994) Francis located the weakness of postwar Conservative intellectual movement in fact that white anglo-Protestant core was underrepresented and it was dominated by Catholics (Buckley) and Jews (Strauss).

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

          6. I don't think we should read too much into this, it's probably a one-off insult. Especially since Irish Catholics do in fact make up a big chunk of the Trumpian right (Hannity, Conway, etc). But still shows how underlying beliefs can sometimes come to the surface.

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        1. Donnie 'Captain O'Denkirk' Calabrese‏ @DonnieCalabrese 17 Mar 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Vince Cheng is particularly interested in Irish whiteness in Joyce and the American 19th century. https://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9783319718170 …

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        1. Neil Mink Lecture Series‏ @TheBitchBot 17 Mar 2019
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          anti-Irish sentiment is still fresh in the mind of my 90-something great aunt, who still complains it stifled her career, and probably many other people who still vote!

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        2. Forrest Chump‏ @ForrestChump_ 17 Mar 2019
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          I think this is a misreading. The Trumpism here isn't some nuanced statement about the nature of whiteness, it's just being an asshole about anyone who doesn't bow to you at all times for any reason or no reason. That Beto is fully white is the point of the bit.

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        1. Resolve.Action.Love  🌻‏ @Snowman55403 17 Mar 2019
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          Italians, with their mildly olive complexion and Catholic upbringing would be among the groups that might get the shove out of the 'white' club. In Westchester Cty, NY in the early 70s, wasps on the block used a very rude term for their IT-AM neighbors.

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        1. STREET JUICE‏ @sammythemc 17 Mar 2019
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