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Originally posted by Callisto.
What are you even talking about I never said that?
The Irish are classified as white people.
White people discriminating against white people isn't racism.
And one poster said everyone discriminated against the Irish but that does not make it racism
Because Irish is an ethnicity.  |
The point is that they were viewed as a subhuman
race and that's what caused discrimination against them (which includes genocide, slavery, low wages, public humiliation, loss of their rightful lands, job and education discrimination, etc.) Many politicians in the 18th and 19th centuries even classified them with blacks, or at least on the same level. The Irish weren't classified as white until very recently, and, even to this day, many view them as another race.
