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St. Patrick's Day is racist???

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    #62
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    stunmer wrote: »
    Is St Patricks Day racist now?

    https://twitter.com/endstpats/status/828017529943646210

    OMG I've been fervently following the Ireland rugby team and cheering every time they score. Does this queen regard me as a racist, then?

    Come to think of it, I've been guilty of doing the same for the Ballydehob junior football team. Very disrespectful of Skibbereen, I suppose. I'll have to change my ways.


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    #63
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Are you having a laugh???

    We, as in the state.


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    #64
    Absolam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭Absolam


    Whereas we the people just got up to all sorts... :D


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    #65
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    ITT: people feeding the trolls.


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    #66
    Pinch Flat
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    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    St Patricks day should be about Christianity and not Irish nationality as 5th century Ireland didn't have Irish nationalism as the men lived in tribes. If you brought those men back today they would not be marching in unity under a fleg.

    Were there many st Patricks day parades in the 5th century? And if you're being strictly correct about it, the modern parade has its origins more in political than religious origins.


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    #67
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    stunmer wrote: »
    Is St Patricks Day racist now?

    https://twitter.com/endstpats/status/828017529943646210

    Is there any legitimacy to it?

    Obviously if you look hard enough on the internet there will always be someone with crazy ideas (especially in the US).

    I think these ideas are becoming more accepted these days.

    In the future will there be protests on St Patricks Day?

    Is that girl in the picture affiliated with this nonsense? The more I read it the more it sounds like a hoax.


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    #68
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Why are people taking such an obvious troll twitter account seriously?


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    #69
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    It's so easy for any gob****e to get attention these days!


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    #70
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    I bet Louise O Neill will share it on Twitter agreeing with it, if she hasn't already done so.


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    #71
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Surely if anything it's a ginger pride day.


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    #72
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    St Patricks day should be about Christianity and not Irish nationality as 5th century Ireland didn't have Irish nationalism as the men lived in tribes. If you brought those men back today they would not be marching in unity under a fleg.

    No, they would be beating seven shades of s***e out of each other. Ah, for the good old days! :rolleyes:


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    #73
    hungry hypno toad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭hungry hypno toad


    Yourself isit wrote: »
    European pride, is that OK?

    No, since 'european' implies white. African pride on the other hand is okay.


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    #74
    AryaStark
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    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Some people have a very vivid imagination. This one was unusual.

    https://twitter.com/endstpats/status/828025143536521216

    So stupid. Nothing wrong with being proud of being Irish. Also nothing wrong with being proud of being white (so long as you are not racist about it).


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    #75
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,235 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    White pride?
    We're only white because we rarely get the sun here!

    But I'm still black!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XnRF5zyIKE


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    #76
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    super_furry wrote: »
    Why are people taking such an obvious troll twitter account seriously?

    Some people are just desperate to be outraged when they get mad at an obvious pisstake


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    #77
    Will I Am Not
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Will I Am Not


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Some people are just desperate to be outraged when they get mad at an obvious pisstake

    The account itself is obviously a pisstake. The tweet on its own wouldn't surprise me in this day and age to be honest.

    There are so many people out there looking for new ways to push their "white privilege" agenda.


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    #78
    goose2005
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    This is a 4chan prank. It's not real.


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    #79
    ann0
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭ann0


    most of the world turned green for paddys day....paddys day is not a white pride day it is about irish culture


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    #80
    Birneybau
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    ann0 wrote: »
    most of the world turned green for paddys day....paddys day is not a white pride day it is about irish culture

    See the post right above yours.


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    #81
    Beyondgone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    Gay Pride = Good
    Black pride = Good
    Homeless pride = Good
    Muslim pride = Good.
    White pride.... How very dare you??


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    #82
    Birneybau
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    Beyondgone wrote: »
    Gay Pride = Good
    Black pride = Good
    Homeless pride = Good
    Muslim pride = Good.
    White pride.... How very dare you??

    It wasn't fcuking real.


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    #83
    johnsomeone
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭johnsomeone


    Looks like someone looking to drum up publicity, maybe they should apply for job with Ryanair


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    #84
    Beyondgone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    Birneybau wrote: »
    It wasn't fcuking real.

    What wasn't? The op? Sure everyone knows that. The point stands.


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    #85
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Beyondgone wrote: »
    Gay Pride = Good
    Black pride = Good
    Homeless pride = Good
    Muslim pride = Good.
    White pride.... How very dare you??

    Probably because most people have never seen White Pride promoted by someone who wasn't a neo-nazi. It's just not a thing outside of the likes of Stormfront


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    #86
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,167 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    darkdubh wrote: »
    I bet Louise O Neill will share it on Twitter agreeing with it, if she hasn't already done so.

    I bet you're getting hard at the thought of being outraged at her.


    The account is a p1sstake. It's a stock photo that someone used to create a dumb meme designed to get stupid rightwingers outraged. It's the kind of sh1t that p[ops up in the daily mail.


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    #87
    Beyondgone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Probably because most people have never seen White Pride promoted by someone who wasn't a neo-nazi. It's just not a thing outside of the likes of Stormfront

    Maybe someone nice should start a new movement? Lots of nice white people out there. I've met plenty of them. I'm not "white" so I don't qualify, but many "white" people have been beyond nice to me.


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    #88
    wes
    Registered Users Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    :D FFS people actually fell for this. Come on lads, the damn account used a stock photo, and tweeted a bunch of nonsense for 3 days in February.

    Goes to show, that its pretty easy to rile people up, by making some **** up, and posting it on twitter.


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