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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
i'd say it's more imperialistic than racist. racist is this button word designed to stir the Irish up in people, it's well out of context here. i suppose imperialistic isn't nearly incendiary enough to make it work.
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What are you saying!? the Pilgrims, unbeknownst to the American Indians, were celebrating the fact they were part of British imperialism and disguised it as a harvest festival? I thought calling Thanksgiving racist was super-nonsensical but calling it Imperialistic, really?
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Originally Posted by loveissucide
Unionists celebrate the destruction of Irish independence and the imposition of the penal laws upon Catholics, as well as the Cromwellian massacres of Catholics.
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Forgive me for not knowing, you have to understand, the story of the Irish Catholics suffering persecution is erased from the annals of post-modern contempary popular history. I didn't know about the Cromwellian massacre of Catholics, either. I knew about the persecution of Catholics in Elzibethan England, but Catholicism did survive in some places in England, the further you were away from London the safer you were.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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