emptywheel

Oh sure. But they gave me a maroon passport so I've got a soft spot for that #shithole nation.

My mother was lucky—she was one of the very few who made it to the US after quotas for Eastern Europe were drastically reduced. Had she not been so lucky, she would almost certainly have died in the Holocaust. Were she alive today, she’d be in the streets fighting against racism.

Same. Plenty of “NINA” signs when they got here, plus the “paddy-wagon” references, etc. The “shiftless Irish.” Definitely the wretched refuse of Ireland’s teeming shores.

Mine, too.

Still pretty much our ideal.

And it got that way bc of awful British policies, like many poor counties.

My ancestors were the textbook example of chain migration from Scotland. Great grandfather started in the coal mine when he was 8 years old and told me he peed his pants the first day he got in the lift and dropped down into the pit. Definitely a shit-hole.

As an African immigrant of Irish descent, I feel ya.

So we’ve stopped pretending no country is a shithole and gone this direction? That was fast.

same. Potato famine on one side, half the family killed by the flu on the other.

When my ancestors came from Ireland the KKK showed up a burned crosses in their yard.