korilian:hippity-hoppity-brigade:globalpoetics:In Ireland a Racist Attack compels a Taxi Driver to l
korilian:hippity-hoppity-brigade:globalpoetics:In Ireland a Racist Attack compels a Taxi Driver to leave“They have banged on my door at night and shouted ‘come out n*gger. You n*ggers come here to take our jobs’”Happy Agamah (63), who is a German citizen, was asleep in his ground floor apartment home in Rathfarnham, south Dublin, when thugs set fire to a fuel-soaked mattress and smashed his bedroom window. A shed outside his window caught fire and was destroyed in the blaze.He said he is lucky to be alive after the attack and is now planning to return to Germany, where he grew up and spent 47 years of his life and worked as an engineer.Mr. Agamah said, “I was in the bedroom when they set fire on a mattress. I have had many incidents since coming here. They have banged on my door at night and shouted ‘come out nigger. You niggers come here to take our jobs.’”read more: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/antiracism-rally-to-support-taxi-driver-who-feels-compelled-to-leave-ireland-after-racist-attack-30368259.htmlanyone who’s ever said “but white people are discriminated against too! what about the irish!” is morally obligated to read this article.Jesus fuck no! Just because Irish people can be racist doesn’t mean other Irish people haven’t been discriminated against!You are conflating the definitions of racism and discrimination. Discrimination is the exclusion/ill treatment of people based on prejudice. That prejudice can be race, gender, sexuality, etnicity, whatever. So yes, that can be the Irish, travelers/romani, Jews or any other minority that we would consider white.Why this need to dismiss the experiences of other people? Do you think it makes what happened to the man in the article less terrible, because other people have also faced prejudice?Maybe you should go back and read some articles Irish people have written about their experiences and then decide wether you still think what happened to them wasn’t discrimination. -- source link