OhSnap!Dragon on Nostr: Vance's comments are more racist than most people realize. In the mid-19th century, ...
Vance's comments are more racist than most people realize. In the mid-19th century, just after the Potato Famine immigrants swarmed U. S. shores, the Irish weren't considered "white", & were labeled scum. Think Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights", a raven-haired Irish orphan who comes to cruelly lord it over his adoptive English family. Only when Caucasians decided that they needed more "whites" to maintain hegemony, did they decide that Irish & Jews were "white".
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