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Strange one that, but governments release strongly worded press releases all the time. Mostly not aimed at the general public. The Senate Foreign Relations committee can say shit that the Biden administration never would.
Also, side note, not being from the east coast I never understood the long-standing nostalgia for all things Irish. My perception has always been that it's very much a NY / Chicago / Boston thing that seems to have persisted. Most of those claiming with Irish heritage are 4-5 generations beyond that and probably couldn't find it on a world map anyway. It is particularly bad in Boston. They forget that during the potato famine, Irish immigrants to the US were utterly vilified.
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I think if more people knew about the condition in which their ancestors arrived in the US their pride might take a hit: a whole lot of people signed up to be, effectively, indentured slaves/rural labourers in exchange for a ticket to America. Many petty criminals were shipped off too. The conditions were ugly, people were treated slightly better than livestock, it was a brave but unromantically difficult choice to make that trip for a shot at a less bad life.
I would hope that breaking the romantic notion of their ancestors’ experience would make them see differently the plight of Latin Americans and refugees worldwide who risk life and limb for their American / European Dream (TM). Instead, there seems to be quite a lot of racism from these communities towards other minorities.
Eseman
^ good point.
Also, why the fuck would the US (or anyone) post official, and provocative, shit like that on twitter? As a reply to a magazine account? Imagine if we had twitter during the Cuban Missile crisis.