December 20, 2023

It seems that a new wave of breast-beating mea culpas has taken over the ruling elites of Ireland.  They are apologizing for having been the beneficiaries of — get this — white privilege.

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Now, don’t laugh.  I say it is about time.

It is true that the (native) Irish are white, and you know it.  Until the 1960s, Ireland was 94% Irish.  Horror of horrors.  And why was that?

Can you say, racism?

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There were not many boat people landing on the Cliffs of Moher.

It might have been that Ireland’s cool, damp, wet (let’s be honest, subarctic), miserable climate was not that attractive to migrants “of color” from warmer and sunnier climes.  Or maybe it was the fact that, until the 1990s, Ireland was a poor country.  People left Ireland, not migrated to it.  Ireland’s glorification of alcohol was probably considered an abominable moral failing to Islamic migrants.

And frankly, there were no mosques in Ireland at that time.  A woeful lack of tolerance on Ireland’s part.

The Gaelic infidels just refused to embrace the wonders of the miracle of the eternal Quran.  The Irish were always a recalcitrant lot, most them not even having embraced the Reformation.

The Irish had barely won their freedom after centuries of abuse at the hands of the British government.  They were still aiming to get the last remnant of their country, Ulster, back.  The Irish had been the victims of British imperialism, religious prejudice, and a major starvation (aggravated by English land policies), to the point where half of the Gaels had fled.

But forget all of that.  The real problem was that the Irish were incurably white.