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shrimp_fried_rice

 Told my mom “You can’t use the argument that immigrants are taking our jobs bc that’s what they did to your grandma when she came here with the Irish need not apply stuff” and she will not stop insisting that it was completely different then I’m so tired
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Anonymous 4w

"nuh uh we are special" oh thats right granny thats called racial supremacy and youre a believer.

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Anonymous 4w

Honestly just ask her how it was different. It tends to be a very revealing question

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Anonymous 4w

My great grandparents literally had to change their last name to seem less Irish to get into the fuckin country 😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 4w

my uncle wasnt even born here and hes already saying stuff like this 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

The “I have mine” mentality is so real

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

Bc saying “oh it was different back then” doesn’t say much. But having to explain how exactly it was different often has people fumbling

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

Her mentality is essentially “my grandmother came in LEGALLY” (not even entirely true btw based on the fact that she CHANGED HER LAST NAME AT THE MIGRATION DESK 😭)

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

I just don’t understand why she’s not more sympathetic when our family faced the exact same discrimination that she’s helping perpetuate now

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 4w

im also of irish descent, my grandma and grandpa on my dads side immigrated here in the 40s/50s. so now my dad says hes "sympathetic" to immigrants, yet he wants to deport everyone EXCEPT elons white south african "refugees"

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 4w

Also I do believe she thinks there’s an air of truth to it now because the news sources she trusts is telling her it is rather than it coming out of history books.

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 4w

also i realized you were talking about your mom and not your granny so my first comment is sorta wrong but atp idrc it works enough given her stances

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 4w

Fake news mfs when the news suddenly confirms to their already held beliefs

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

Bahaha it’s fine, yeah I’m 3rd generation I think? but she’s connected to her Irish heritage a lot more than I am. She even used her family heritage to get an Irish citizenship (which you can do apparently??) Which is what surprises me so much about her. Sympathetic to her own plight, but nobody else’s

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 4w

3rd or 4th idk nobody gives a shit anyway

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

Also, while not about the Irish, at the same time in the 1800s there were people from China coming to the US in spite of the Chinese exclusion act. A ton of people with Chinese ancestry are here because their ancestors immigrated here illegally. Are we suddenly going to deport every Chinese person?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

Guess we gotta bruh otherwise people will seem like big fuckin hypocrites

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