What does the left gain from denying irish slavery?

[Shshsusu]

Or the mass graves.

[NamerOfStars]

An intact narrative. The Irish first came here as victims, then as refugees. In either case, you're talking about people who were VERY powerless- but they didn't stay that way. They turned their strengths to the cause of helping the country, and help it they did. You would get extremely strange looks if you went out wearing a shirt that said "Enjoying the weekend? Thank an Irish person!", but it wouldn't be historically inaccurate (just oversimplifying).

The Irish, like the Jews, and later the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans, built up enough and integrated enough to become just another group of white people. We're living proof that it can be done- that the notion of eternal and inherent powerlessness is a lie. That's anathema to the seekers after victimhood.

[RebelinSteel]

This is a debunked load of bollox, that was pretty much invented quite recently.

if anyone wants to check the link below.

https://developmenteducation.ie/feature/were-irish-people-the-first-slaves-in-america/

[Shshsusu]

You're pretending they were servants, yet you made no effort to prove this.

[RebelinSteel]

The link proves this.

[Shshsusu]

It doesn't. There's basically nothing in that link but more claims.

[RebelinSteel]

To quote - Irish people were not enslaved in Colonial America, nor were they the first people indentured in Early Virginia.
The claim that they were the “first slaves of America” is rated as false on both counts.
It is evident that this false claim appropriates and distorts the history of the transportation in 1619 of one hundred poor English children who were sent from London to Virginia where they were to be bound out as apprentices.

[Shshsusu]

But you just made that up and denied the mass graves and everyone reading your post just assumes you're an idiot.

[RebelinSteel]

There is no reason to be offensive. The link contains the text I wrote, to reiterate what you put in your question is simply bollox, I would say fake news but it’s not even that good tbh.

[RebelinSteel]

Links
www.reuters.com/.../

https://www.history.com/news/5-myths-about-slavery

www.politifact.com/.../

[Shshsusu]

Your source doesn't contain any primary source, its literally just the author making stuff up. It's no different from you making the claim. You successfully proved you are a troll and don't understand the concept of history.

[KostasKouvalis]

Nothing more than furthering their anti-White, black nationalist agenda and earning some more brownie points. And also, preservation of their pride. They don't want to swallow it.

But yeah, what's crazy is even though the North abolished the enslavement of Africans, enslavement/indentured servitude of the Irish was still permitted, and it was also common practice throughout parts of the British Empire. And the Irish were actually seen as more expendable and were often hired to do the more dangerous labor which risked potential death. So they were actually seen as even less valuable than the Africans.

In addition to Irish, there were also Slavs who were enslaved by the Romans and Barbary pirates from North Africa also took White people as slaves.

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't know but they won't give ME reparations for the slavery of MY Irish ancestors!

[Anonymous]

What about the British?

[normalice]

The left?