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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Matt Viser

      "Listen, Jack, have you read this book How the Irish Became White? No malarky there."https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1372302061426081794 …

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      Matt ViserVerified account @mviser
      “People have gotten a chance to see what we’ve been on the other side of as an Irish race,” Biden says. “That is, they’ve gotten to see the systemic racism that still exists in the country."
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Matt Viser

      In greater seriousness: this is a very unfashionable opinion right now but I think it can be good for ethnic white people to reflect on historical bias faced by their ancestors if not done in spirit "we succeeded why can't they" but "bias is bad"https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1372302061426081794 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Matt ViserVerified account @mviser
      “People have gotten a chance to see what we’ve been on the other side of as an Irish race,” Biden says. “That is, they’ve gotten to see the systemic racism that still exists in the country."
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        1. Gustavo‏ @SheltieDad 17 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          When I see @SteveScalise using the exact same epithets and insults on today’s immigrants that were used against his Nonna it makes me ill.

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        2. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW 17 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          remember that Biden and Corn Pop became friends

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        3. We're in trouble‏ @CTMay3 17 Mar 2021
          Replying to @AryehCW @HeerJeet

          That shit was true! The Washington Post ran an interview w/ two of the guys.

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        1. DOD‏ @dcodea 17 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Just listened to a podcast on the 48ers expelled from Germany and how prominent they were in the union army and antislavery movement, and for me the big takeaway was “I want anyone expelled by a dictator, anyone fleeing repression, all the refugees. I’ll take em all”

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        1. Liz Smith‏ @Liz100171 17 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          "It was wrong when it was done to us. it's just as wrong, if not more so, when done to others by us. We should know better."

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        1. Joe Flaherty‏ @joef_3 17 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          No idea if it’s still there but in ‘11 I visited Ellis Island and they had an exhibit in the museum area that featured recordings of various anti-immigrant speeches and writings from various periods. More people should experience it, it really laid bare how repetitive it all is.

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        1. S. Jain‏ @midshine 17 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Well except there’s also a whole thing where white folks compare Irish indentured labour to Black slaves and they are not the same at all.

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        1. Mike Wasson‏ @mikewasson 17 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          ...wait, this is unfashionable? Seems pretty clear to me that the only way an Irish-American could legitimately take pride in that identifier is if they continue to identify with the oppressed. We got fucked over, but then we got lucky. We can't pull the ladder up behind us.

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        1. P. Bone‏ @p_bone 17 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Right, growing up in an Irish Catholic family my grandma, who had pictures of JFK, MLK, and the Pope on the wall, would tell us “this is how they treated us, don’t treat other people like that”

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        1. Daniel Larkin  🌹 🏴‏ @larkin721 17 Mar 2021
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          Daniel Larkin  🌹 🏴 Retweeted Black Socialists in America

          Queenhttps://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/995780128532828160?s=20 …

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          Black Socialists in AmericaVerified account @BlackSocialists
          “There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland [than] to look towards Boston city & see our people ... being used to oppress the Black people of this city.” | Legendary Irish Socialist, Bernadette Devlin, on seeing Irish Americans aid white supremacy. pic.twitter.com/eWvBRt3Q5F
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