Post by Mello Yello on Mar 15, 2008 12:17:43 GMT -5
We as Americans have spent 242 years objectifying races of people. African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian-Americans, the list goes on and on of races we have objectified. But once a year we objectify one race of people and yet nobody says anything:
St. Patrick's Day, the objectification of the Irish People.
Credit: Wikipedia
I see nothing there about Saint Patrick being the patron saint of "getting drunk and sleeping with an ugly chick." All this holiday (which isn't an official one in the US anyway) is, is an excuse for people to pray on stereotypes of Irish people by pounding down beer that has been colored green.
Woo-who!
We don't have Asian day where everybody does math problems and drives erratically. We don't have Black People day where we all sit around and eat chicken. We don't have Mexican Day where we all hop fences and complain about Taco Bell NOT being real Mexican food.
If we did the politically correct American media would shit their pants. Yet every year we sit back and watch as the Irish people get made out to be drunken idiots. It is racism, plain and simple.
For those of you who are unaware, Irish people have been victims of racism for almost as long as African-Americans. They began coming to America following the potato famine. Americans insulted them because the Irish people would willing do jobs that they wouldn't. Which (besides the influx of Asian's coming to America to work on the railroads in the West) was a leading cause for quotas being instituted when it came to the amount of people from certain countries immigrating to America.
Irish people were beaten and insulted for the reason that they would do the jobs Americans wouldn't for cheaper. It is the same thing we see today when Americans complain about the jobs illegal aliens are stealing. They take low paying jobs that most of the Americans politically aware enough to comprehend the "problem" of illegal immigrants wouldn't THINK of taking.
St. Patrick's Day is a day celebrating stereotypes and racism. It's disgusting.
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In other news, I finally got an iPod, and I love it more than I probably would love my first-born child.
If anyone was offended by my racial stereotyping above when referring to Asian Day, Black People Day and Mexican Day... grow up, I was making a comparison for the sake of argument. I don't think Asian people are really better at Math.
St. Patrick's Day, the objectification of the Irish People.
Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius[2], Irish: Naomh Pádraig) was a Christian missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba. Patrick was born in Roman Britain. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the church, as his father and grandfather had before him, becoming a deacon and a bishop. He later returned to Ireland as a missionary, working in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he actually worked and no link can be made with Patrick and any church. By the eighth century he had become the patron saint of Ireland. The Irish monastery system evolved after the time of Patrick and the Irish church did not develop the diocesan model that Patrick and the other early missionaries had tried to establish.
Credit: Wikipedia
I see nothing there about Saint Patrick being the patron saint of "getting drunk and sleeping with an ugly chick." All this holiday (which isn't an official one in the US anyway) is, is an excuse for people to pray on stereotypes of Irish people by pounding down beer that has been colored green.
Woo-who!
We don't have Asian day where everybody does math problems and drives erratically. We don't have Black People day where we all sit around and eat chicken. We don't have Mexican Day where we all hop fences and complain about Taco Bell NOT being real Mexican food.
If we did the politically correct American media would shit their pants. Yet every year we sit back and watch as the Irish people get made out to be drunken idiots. It is racism, plain and simple.
For those of you who are unaware, Irish people have been victims of racism for almost as long as African-Americans. They began coming to America following the potato famine. Americans insulted them because the Irish people would willing do jobs that they wouldn't. Which (besides the influx of Asian's coming to America to work on the railroads in the West) was a leading cause for quotas being instituted when it came to the amount of people from certain countries immigrating to America.
Irish people were beaten and insulted for the reason that they would do the jobs Americans wouldn't for cheaper. It is the same thing we see today when Americans complain about the jobs illegal aliens are stealing. They take low paying jobs that most of the Americans politically aware enough to comprehend the "problem" of illegal immigrants wouldn't THINK of taking.
St. Patrick's Day is a day celebrating stereotypes and racism. It's disgusting.
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In other news, I finally got an iPod, and I love it more than I probably would love my first-born child.
If anyone was offended by my racial stereotyping above when referring to Asian Day, Black People Day and Mexican Day... grow up, I was making a comparison for the sake of argument. I don't think Asian people are really better at Math.
