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Mate. I’m fairly certain anti Irish sentiment and prejudice existed before you hit “Post reply”. On a lighter note, my lovely Irish girlfriend once asked my (mixed race) kids whether they wanted a sambo. Irish slang for a sandwich apparently.
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I inadvertently started this.
I intended the tomato/tomayto analog. I was intending to suggest that most likely, to an English person, an Irish accented London Dock worker using English language rhyming slang would probably have been hard to distinguish from Irish. It wasn’t a particularly funny joke, but it didn’t cross my mind that it could be offensive, and I was surprised it caused so much upset. However, you learn, and it certainly did cause upset, and I was told it was racist so I apologised immediately and won’t say the same in future. And apologies again.
Now I wish I had a meme to share but I don’t