"The Irish became white in the 20th century" - Ezra Klein, "Vox" Who can forget that stunning scene in "Gone With the Wind" in which Scarlett's last name is revealed to be "O'Hara" and she is immediately sold into slavery?https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/30/17505406/trump-obama-race-politics-immigration …
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Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson chronicles how Irish and Scottish Protestants were the most vociferous Know Nothings. Anti Irish sentiment had nothing to do with Irishness and everything to do with Catholicism. Irish as non-white is a myth
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Nobody hates the Irish like other Irish.
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No, because the real agenda is to make the concept of "Whiteness" seem arbitrary or to be something connected with "class;" Marxists love to use class analysis. The problem with the Irish wasn't that they weren't White, but that they were Catholic, devotees of the Antichrist.
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You are on a roll tonight. Brilliant.
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