Is there any way to bring this piece of exploitation history up to the reparation screwballs? I have Irish ancestry, and it seems like nobody knows that Irish people were prolifically sold into slavery for cheap (often 1/10th the cost of an african) into the colonies, and later the states, but magically seem to be doing very well for themselves today. We ought to be including the Irish slave descendants in any talk of slavery or oppression. To not do so would invalidate the trials of tens of millions, and show the reparationists as deprived, bigoted, xenophobic, anti-ginger, racist knaves.
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I've tried to mention this. It makes you even worse of a racist.
My scottish ancestry - Servitude until debt payed
My Irish Ancestors - Captured by Barbary Pirates
Every pleb in the middle ages : LAND PAWNS and SERFS
The Feudal system effectively enslaved most of europe in my opinion.
The woke mob doesn't like those facts
Liberal response: White privilege.
Long after slavery ended "No Irish Need Apply" was still a thing too.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-teen-who-exposed-a-professors-myth
Whenever reparations are cancel culture comes up, the message needs to be "DNC and the NYT must change their names and pay for their own extensive and well documented history regarding slavery."
I have Irish ancestry as well. While the Irish were slaves in the Carribean islands, they were never slaves in the US. Indentured servitude was not much better though.
I would like my reparations paid to me in bottles of Jameson.