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NINA-No Irish Need Apply

  • 03-08-2015 9:06am
    #1
    fatknacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭


    According to some lads in the States, this discrimination against the Irish was not as bad as it was being made out and just an act of victimisation. Then a 14 year old student does some googling and finds out these window signs and ads existed and she's being called a hero for it.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/01/the-teen-who-exposed-a-professor-s-myth.html


    Posted via mobile so can't copy & paste properly.

    The whole thing strikes me as very strange. Is this what " anti-Irish sentiment" is in the US? How can a kid simply google and disprove a professor.

    How can googling make a person a hero.


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It was in the 19th century and a handful of examples. Hardly nationwide or current.

    History forum =====>


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    My assumption is that in 2002, when the professor first did their research, they didn't have the wealth of knowledge that a teenager would have today. That and an academic wouldn't rely solely on random Google searches.

    Plus isn't it kind of expected with anything to do with history that theories and opinions change over time?


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    The same reason shoddy journalism always finds print. Space needs to be filled.


  • #5
    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    fatknacker wrote: »
    How can googling make a person a hero.

    He said she is "the hero" and the context was that she's the hero of the piece rather than him, from what I can gather that was because he was being credited with helping with the research when he hadn't. I don't think he is actually considering her alongside people who risk their lives to pull people out of burning buildings or anything.

    What she did was cool anyway. The revisionist attempts to portray oppressed groups as not really that oppressed or complicit themselves is bizarre and contributes to the colonial mentality so many Irish and others have.


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