Irish White Privilege......Yeah

in every country in the world, citizens and taxpayers in their individual countries are prioritised, privileged etc… that’s just how it should be…🤷‍♂️

hardly a point in having an Irish passport, citizenship etc if that just means you are deprioritised.

in Eritrea I’m entitled to SFA… so why should an Eritrean be entitled to everything an Irish person is and more, here ? Why should we be indoctrinating our kids to believe they are…?

The referenced document did not say anything about people not recognising their privilege in other scenarios, just to consider what advantages they might have benefited from relative to others. You will in fact often hear first generation African Americans, usually children of "professionals", assert their privilege relative to descendants of slaves.

For example, as Irish people we have the privilege of being born in a stable democracy with near full employment and no internal or external threats to our security. Relative to Ukrainians form Kharkiv we definitely have privilege and when considering how we view people from that background. It not an Irish persons fault that they have benefited from a level of privilege, but it is real in relative terms. It is still in a persons prerogative to hold a view that we should not have taken in Ukranians, but should be from a position of considering their experience also.

There could be countless other examples where a group did not have the same privileges as another - eg. experience of the Irish in 1950's London where we definitely did not have privilege and suffered at the hands of those that did, Catholics in NI up to the 90's relative to Protestants, Irish in late 19th century New York relative to WASPS, descendants of Irish indentured labour in the Caribbean relative to blacks etc. etc.

People who live in a country should not be treated as differing in importance to anyone else, we don't have a tiered system of people, there should be no second class citizens, with less rights than others.

Travel to certain parts of Dublin and ask about white male privilege..."but, but, but you're a bit whiter!"

So who are these second class citizens who have less rights than someone like me?

Within most societies there is a group that has a historical advantage. Be it due to ethnic, economic, social, religious, military and a host of other reasons.

All that is asked is that in seeking to have a more equitable society, those who had advantages acknowledge the fact. That is all. To acknowledge that there maybe systemic advantages that they benefitted from. And any individual has likely both benefitted from some advantage and also suffered disadvantages elsewhere. The white unskilled worker from rural Kentucky was a beneficiary of the segregationist policies in that state, but also suffered from the lack of investment in training and education that left him in low paid dead end jobs when the major industries left, and without adequate healthcare which left him with an almost 3rd world life expectancy

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Why indeed ?

We are not nor will we be .

This is not what is or will be discussed but I'd take a punt that most Irish secondary school kids would see that they are lucky to be born in Ireland rather than Eritrea if it comes up .