Irish White Privilege......Yeah

sure the first slaves in Europe were the Irish weren't we?

Should we not be remembering that as opposed to being resentful that we are white and relatively prosperous?

Reparations for the Irish. When do we want it? Now.

That's a fantasy spread about by American white supremacists. Irish people were never slaves.

Indeed. Most people cop on when faced with real world responsibilities.

If this thread proves anything, there’s a small cohort of middle-aged Peter Pans, who continue to indulge in this rubbish, decades after their peers have moved on. Plus ca change for this site..

I take your point about the EU, but seriously, that's not white privilege.

It would be "white privilege" only if someone had to be white to benefit from it. That"s not the case: a black person with French or Dutch citizenship gets all the same benefits of EU membership as a white person with the same citizenship - and a white British or American or Australian does not.

It grinds my gears when people try to apply a US understanding of society to the rest of the world: they have white privilege over there because black people with US citizenship did not have the same rights as white people. Black American soldiers posted to the UK and the rest of Europe were amazed to discover that they could drink in the same bars as their white counterparts. That's not to say there was never any racism in Europe. Same as in China they're often quite racist to non Chinese or whatever. But that's not "Chinese privilege", and anyway it still wouldn't apply to all the other Asian states just because of China.

Can you explain how FDI is taking jobs from American workers?

What is mad is that Irish feminists are the one's pushing white privilege while simultaneously believing women are oppressed!!! How can both be true, both very extreme positions polar opposite of one another....These are grown adult women.

But that's got nothing to do with what I said.

If I said I believe I am privileged and i'm also oppressed, how could I expect anyone to take me seriously?

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Presumably a perfect human calling everyone that doesnt agree with his ideas far right. Is life that simple in some peoples eyes? Hope Santa called to all and you feel priviledged this mornings🎅🎅

No, we have only become racist since the foreigners moved here 😁

It's not the skin colour, it's the general looks, body language, vocabulary and accent that will do you in, just like if you were a pasty Irish traveller.

Indeed. It’s a fundamental evolutionary behavioural pattern.

Evidently, the only people who fail to acknowledge this are a small cohort of posters around here. Given their posting ‘throughput’, I’ll wager that their experience of real life relationships is, shall we say, rather limited.

If Irish White Privilege does exist, and I've no doubt it does in aspects, its been well earned by Irish people whose hard work and entrepreneurship have made themselves and this society wealthy. It was a very different story when I was young, I can assure you.

And for many years it was hindered by the inate conservatism of government, rather than enabled and supported. Governments have invariably proven themselves to be well behind the zeitgeist of the people.

However, if there is a sense of privilege, it doesn't concern me particularly. It contributes to confidence and enthusiasm and I'm really gratified to see in my friends and family that they make sure their kids know and understand how lucky they are, and that only hard work will give them a life that they want for themselves and loved ones.

A friend of mine is a multimillionaire, he owns and runs a couple of midsize businesses and has a wonderful life doing it. But his eldest kid is 11, and a more kindly, more empathetic boy you could not wish to meet. He will be plenty spoiled this Christmas, but do you know when their kids get to open their gifts on Christmas day?

When the family gets back from 3 hours serving lunch to the less fortunate and those alone today, at the local Rugby club.

Have faith in this Country, I do.

Work for it and fight for it like the irish did. We dont owe shite lads.

You're mixing up internet stories , slavery was very much part of our culture

Completely useless fact though in relation to how it keeps coming up

That's recent enough, we had a few slave masters of our own, our patron Saint being one of them. Obviously that could be made up but it's still tells us slavery was part of us

In all upcoming elections vote for candidates that will get rid off this sort of nonsense.

White privilege in Ireland a country opposed for hundreds of years, give me a break.

And male privilege? Tell that to the women in my family and they will laugh at you. They are doing very well for themselves.

As for gender ideology, well it’s quite simple imo. There are only 2 genders or sex they are male and female.

Don’t follow America on all of this, it’s a farcical mess over there. And getting worse. Stand up for what you know in your heart is right.

yeah would you ever go and fook off for yourself and take that American bolloxology with ya.

I have told my kids to tell anyone that pedals this shyte to them that they have Mayo generations in them, a county that had the attached tag "Mayo God Help Us".

A county that was the worse affected by the famine and subsequent emigration which now means most families have distant branches throughout the US, Canada, UK and Australia/New Zealand.

And they got SFA given to them when they got there.

They worked hard for everything they gained.

So they can shove their white privilege where the sun don't shine.

I was happy to have Kellie Harrington as a positive role model but then the media decided to cancel her because she shared news of a horrific murder in France and we can't be having that

So many of the posts here seem to be written by the same person, even though they are from different posters:

'Irish white privilege - dont make laugh….. yada yada yada ……woke b********ology….something something"