I really do think your comment here is hyper-sensitive on anti-Irish bigotry. Of course whole books have been written about the " The Irish Experience " in America. There are NO more grounds for bigotry against the Irish than any other people - the Jews, for example. " Socialists from the English speaking world " lately have been accused of " anti-Semitism " when they are simply asserting the ideals of international socialism.
I have also said that socialists should try to build bridges to people of ALL the great religions of humanity- including Islam.
Was James Joyce a self-hating Irish Catholic ? I don't think so. Am I a self-hating Italo- American when I express my scorn for the " Godfather " cult ? Or for Mussolini's Italy ?
I always sided with the Catholic Irish fighting British oppression.
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"There is nothing charming about ethnic self-obsession. Can you picture
Ireland retreating to the reactionary Irish-Catholic " culture " James
Joyce wrote about in " Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man " ?"
[ I'm getting sick of this anti-Irish bigotry that seems to be embedded in socialists from the English-speaking world. Catholic reaction in Ireland in the Victorian period was imposed by Britain after the country had lost 3-5 million people in a genocidal attack. It is one phase in a people whose culture was 2500 years old.
But this is always characterised in the anglocentrics as 'little ethnically obsessed Ireland' - always the attack, always the sense of threat to the English world from the 'ancient oddness' of the Irish - who sit in a strategic area of the North Atlantic, imperilling Britain.
None of you know the origin and etiology of your attitudes, which we can explain to you better than you know yourselves - we have been dealing with this bigotry for centuries. ]
I have also said that socialists should try to build bridges to people of ALL the great religions of humanity- including Islam.
Was James Joyce a self-hating Irish Catholic ? I don't think so. Am I a self-hating Italo- American when I express my scorn for the " Godfather " cult ? Or for Mussolini's Italy ?
I always sided with the Catholic Irish fighting British oppression.
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"There is nothing charming about ethnic self-obsession. Can you picture
Ireland retreating to the reactionary Irish-Catholic " culture " James
Joyce wrote about in " Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man " ?"
[ I'm getting sick of this anti-Irish bigotry that seems to be embedded in socialists from the English-speaking world. Catholic reaction in Ireland in the Victorian period was imposed by Britain after the country had lost 3-5 million people in a genocidal attack. It is one phase in a people whose culture was 2500 years old.
But this is always characterised in the anglocentrics as 'little ethnically obsessed Ireland' - always the attack, always the sense of threat to the English world from the 'ancient oddness' of the Irish - who sit in a strategic area of the North Atlantic, imperilling Britain.
None of you know the origin and etiology of your attitudes, which we can explain to you better than you know yourselves - we have been dealing with this bigotry for centuries. ]
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