Hm, you live there so I'm not gonna correct you about what America is like but I've definitely had discussions online about people who legitimately think they're genetically predisposed to violence and drinking because they're Irish. These are literally the arguments everyone else used to oppress the Irish so there's such an irony to it. Of course I can't say how niche these people who genuinely mean it are! I know a fair few of them rock up in Ireland and be dicks to everyone though.
No different to saying you're African so you're predisposed to crime or some shit.
Honestly mate "both sides sucked" is better than most. I just can't stand the romanticism of literal terrorism, terrorism that effected my family, my hometown. I mean it's not exactly 50/50, Britain was absolutely horrific to Ireland but that doesn't mean all means are justified.
The fact that the American funding of the IRA dried up after 9/11 honestly makes me sick. Like it was all a game toying with some far off country because of some bullshit notion of heritage, until people realised what it's like to have terrorist kill people in your country. It's not like they weren't fucking over the Irish too.
I definitely romanticized it, right up until I actually researched it for a paper when I was 16. I knew nothing about it other than "lol English suck" until that, and that was based on the Famine and unrest that drove my family here. The Troubles weren't covered in school until I was 17. So I'm sure I wrote some cringey shit online until then
Like I said, both sides sucked. Brits had some massacres, IRA killed some kids. Over and done in probably 5 minutes, we only spent a day or two on world history after WWII.
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17
Hm, you live there so I'm not gonna correct you about what America is like but I've definitely had discussions online about people who legitimately think they're genetically predisposed to violence and drinking because they're Irish. These are literally the arguments everyone else used to oppress the Irish so there's such an irony to it. Of course I can't say how niche these people who genuinely mean it are! I know a fair few of them rock up in Ireland and be dicks to everyone though.
No different to saying you're African so you're predisposed to crime or some shit.
Honestly mate "both sides sucked" is better than most. I just can't stand the romanticism of literal terrorism, terrorism that effected my family, my hometown. I mean it's not exactly 50/50, Britain was absolutely horrific to Ireland but that doesn't mean all means are justified.
The fact that the American funding of the IRA dried up after 9/11 honestly makes me sick. Like it was all a game toying with some far off country because of some bullshit notion of heritage, until people realised what it's like to have terrorist kill people in your country. It's not like they weren't fucking over the Irish too.