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Just watched Sinners

Can anyone enlighten me on why they picked on Irish immigrants? Did blues get coopted by Irish historically?

I don't get it

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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Irish being colonized, not coloni-zing.

Wouldn't it make more sense to make him British?

[-] regul@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Irish were (are) colonized. They were originally an out-group, but were subsumed into "whiteness" at a later point in history.

Vampirism represents this assimilation.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But now he's a colonizer (in the film)

The Irish today are some of the most respectable people against colonization. Just see their solidarity with Palestinians.

To paint them as colonizers seems wrong and offensive

[-] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Great bit

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