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Why do I get the impression that we're only two or three posts from the word "Rothschild" followed by a knowing wink?
Actually it's Soros.
Ajidica said:I'd say we are well past the knowing wink and starting to warm up the presses for Der Sturmer.
Or Der Untermensch (the magazine)
That seems like a very American outlook. In Europe, the dynamic is if anything reversed: "whiteness" is recognised pragmatically, depending on your attitude towards the group in question. Given that European jingoists have seriously revised their attitudes towards their traditional enemies and show no particular signs of doing so, it's not clear how a grudging, academic acknowledgement that perhaps the Irish aren't just pasty Negroids after all is going to alter the fundamental orientation of English fascists towards a Gaelic population they continue to despise.
In the US whiteness has basically grown to encompass more and more people over time.
Out of curiosity, while watching the Sharpe miniseries I saw the term "black Irish" used by characters we are clearly intended to dislike. Is there any historical basis for this phrase as linking Irish to Africans, are the two completely unrelated, or is it just something invented in the mind of the writers for Sharpe?
AFAIK it just means Irish people with dark hair.