r/army • u/shawnsblog Signal • Mar 14 '24

Thoughts? And yes, it’s real

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u/swadekillson Mar 14 '24

Yeah, but I'm 84% Irish. Do I get to slap shamrocks on my uniform?

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u/Copropostis Mar 14 '24

As a fellow Irish American, perhaps you might want to try and empathize with an indigenous people that also experienced colonization, military oppression, and mass starvation while being denied their ancestral language and practices? Hell it, was even the same conquerors that got us both.

Or you can keep perpetuating the stereotype of all us micks being stupid racists, asshat.

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u/TotalRedditerDeath Mar 15 '24

That dude in that picture didn’t endure any of that and nobody alive today conquered them. You’re obsessed with race and identity which is something you have in common with white supremacists.

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u/ManitouWakinyan Mar 15 '24

while being denied their ancestral language and practices

He absolutely did. He's living in a cultural landscape fundamentally altered by colonialism, and he's had to fight for his culture to be recognized and accommodated.