I see Fox News is trying to revoke the white status of the Irish. (Ginger = red-head). I welcome my Celtic siblings to the ranks of "colored folks."https://twitter.com/yashar/status/958863150857838593 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
My family's littered with redheads (father, three brothers, one son, loads of nephews and nieces) and i never got the ginger "slur."
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Replying to @MUGGER1955
Gingers are considered untrustworthy, amoral etc. Almost all the gingers in Dickens are bad (Fagin, Uriah Heep).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @MUGGER1955
In between-the-wars Brit popular culture, aren't they all fresh-faced innocents? (Sylvia Sidney's brother in Sabotage; the perennial office boy. Maybe it's high vs. low culture.
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Since moving to UK I've been mystified why being "ginger" leaves a kid open to teasing and put-downs and is generally considered not exactly bad but certainly not attractive. Leftover anti-Celt prejudice?
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Anti-Celt but also ant-Semitism (Jews also associated with red-hair).
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