delta-does-discourse: someoneintheshadow456:the-rains-of-castamere:theyoungpatriot1776:jooshco
delta-does-discourse: someoneintheshadow456: the-rains-of-castamere: theyoungpatriot1776: jooshcognito: nunyabizni: sighinastorm: gservator: amuseoffyre: ineptshieldmaid: younger-than-the-soul: satsekhem: angrynerdyblogger: strider-sister: girlwithg0ldeyes: draculah: skarvika: historicalbird: j3fa: lasiguanaba: thirstrani: no bro you really don’t not at fucking all stop It appears absolutely no one realizes this character (assuming this story takes places during the time in which it was filmed) grew up during The Troubles of Northern Ireland. You don’t if he’s Northern Irish. You don’t know if he’s Catholic. You don’t know if he grew up watching his people get murdered by Loyalist Protestants and British soldiers who carried heavy racial prejudice against Irish Catholics (hellooo, Bloody Sunday anyone?), who had for centuries been characterized as barbaric, racially inferior, lowly people who needed to be wiped out or converted. Attacks by the IRA, and therefore retaliation by the British, didn’t completely cease until 1998, I believe? This film came out in 2002. You don’t know if he was an Irishman who grew up in England. Bomb attacks carried out by the IRA in England kindled misplaced aggression toward innocent Irish civilians living among the English population and Irish people were verbally and physically attacked and their businesses targeted. Perhaps similar to how ordinary Muslims bear the brunt of aggression after attacks by Muslim extremists… You can still find yourself threatened and demeaned if you’re a Catholic in Northern Ireland or if you’re a Protestant in Ireland and some older dude in a pub in a smaller town straight up asks you if you’re Catholic or not and you’re afraid what’ll happen if you don’t lie about who you are. You can still hear casual racism toward Irish people in everyday life and in publicly broadcast media in the UK. You can still see and hear “Kill All Irish” and other pretty heavy anti-Irish sentiment among Loyalists in Northern Ireland who don’t consider themselves Irish at all. Just because it now appears that the island of Ireland has been allowed to move on from war and their appearance and culture generally allows them to blend into and reap the benefits of the White European demographic doesn’t mean that this character does not have the background suitable to fully empathize with her. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t, we just don’t know his story. But I guess you’ve never been demeaned as a Paddy or a Taig so you wouldn’t understand what it feels like, would you? don’t worry dude it’s tumblr the mentality here is basically “if you’re lighter than a coconut you’re not allowed to have any feelings and your life is automatically perfect but that’s not racist at all bc your skin is lighter than someone else’s and that means it’s ok” ^^^^^^^^ not enough upward pointies in the world plot twist: being Irish actually sucks, seriously I normally don’t comment on posts like these but the ignorance of this makes me so fucking angry because absolutely no one in the world seems to give a shit about the Irish because we all just seem to be so happy and drunk all the time. Because they’re white, right? So obviously they have no idea what hardship means. *bursts in* *breathes heavily* Did someone mention the Northern Irish Troubles First of all, pretty much yes to everything about Ireland up there. Growing up in Northern Ireland, I saw the violence from all sides - my father is a British Protestant and my mother is a Catholic, so I basically couldn’t win because according to one side I was a dirty taig and according to the other I was a filthy hun. Luckily I managed to make friends with a mix of both Catholics and Protestants who all thought this attitude was just as stupid as I did, but between all of us, we saw our fair share of sectarian violence, and the Catholics, without a doubt, got it worse. Irish Catholics were robbed of their country by Protestant invaders centuries ago. They fought and fought and eventually got the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland), however, thanks to the deliberate plantation of Protestants to eradicate the Catholic majority in the North, it was left under British rule. Since then, Catholics have been murdered, arrested, terrorised, tortured and driven out of their houses just for being Irish Catholics. I moved from Northern Ireland in 2010 and to the day I left, the violence was not over. I couldn’t wear certain colours in certain areas because I would be beaten. I had fake names depending on where I was stopped, as attackers can determine what religion you are from your name alone (and this is a trick I learned, too, for defence). I can recite my rights if I’m arrested because if I was stopped in certain areas I could be, on the assumption I could be Catholic. I know the subtle sectarian geography of the city of Belfast because if I cross the road in the wrong place I’m in enemy territory. I have been chased by a group of forty people, throwing fireworks at me, because they assumed I was a Catholic. Police were parked on nearby streets and didn’t acknowledge the commotion. My friends and I walk past graffiti screamed “Kill All Taigs”. A fifteen year old boy who lived half an hour from me was beaten to death by a group of adults for being Catholic. For fifty years, people have been detained without trial, tortured, beaten and wrongly imprisoned just for being Catholic, because apparently, being Catholic means you must be in the IRA. Even now, I can’t escape it. I have a noticeable Northern Irish accent, which is stronger when I’m around people from there and is noticeable as a strong accent whenever I’m not in the country. At airports, I’m always the one stopped and frisked if they hear my accent. At ferry ports, it’s alway my car (which has Northern Irish registration plates) that’s “randomly selected” for a search. All of this just happened to me, a person who got off lightly. If you think that Irish people haven’t faced oppression and abuse, you’re wrong. If you think that Northern Ireland is past its troubles, you’re wrong. It sickens me that this happens only a few hundred miles away from England and no one acknowledges it exists, because hey, they’re just some terrorist Catholics, right? Contrary to popular belief, racism isn’t America centric. Just ask the Serbians and Croatians. REBLOGGING FOR THE LAST ONE JFC THANK YOU. Hell, ask Rwanda. Plot twist: ethnic genocide involving no white people at all! Ask China about Japan. Ask Tibet about China. Ask Kuwait about Iraq. Ask Ukraine about Russia. Xenophobia is not just the purview of white people. Any other can be an enemy. They can be the same colour. They can share a religion. They can live right next door right up until the moment the blade or gun or bomb is in your hand. Racism and Xenophobia is a very Human or Primate response to our fellow man, Chimps display it, so do Gorillas and any other primate living today. To say someone can’t experience this because [x] is a way of dehumanizing them, making them the other you claim them of making you. It’s the most Tribal and simplistic way of viewing things, it’s a view that lacks empathy to say that someone can’t experience something because of the colour of their skin, it’s also Extremely Racist. But hey i don’t know why I go on when most people will view my lighter than coal skin and say that invalidates my opinion. This has many new additions since I last (maybe) reblogged it three years go. It continues to be a good lesson for all of tumblr to learn Classic post Ask the Spanish Jews and the Moors about the Spanish Inquisition Ask the Armenians about the genocide carried out against them by the Turkish Ottomans. Ask the black people who are being bought and sold in the Libyan slave trade by Muslim Arabs. And the millions of white Europeans who have been kidnapped from their homes and sold into slavery by Barbary pirates. Oh, and let’s not forget the hundreds of thousands of young white British girls who have been/are being abducted, groomed, raped, abused and trafficked by Arab Muslim gangs in Rotherham, England as we speak, and the girls are mostly white and British because they’re being targeted specifically for their race and nationality, which makes them easy targets. The only people who think racism is exclusive to white Americans are ignorant, sheltered, overly-privileged American urbanites (most of whom are also white) who are so woke, they’re falling back asleep. Also, @someoneintheshadow456, I hear Indians are racist as fuck to other Indians from different parts of the country. Is that true? India isn’t even one country it’s 29 countries haphazardly fused together and forced to get along. Nobody hates Indians more than other Indians and anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Wow now I really know why the Irish hate the Brits. -- source link