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[-] superkret@feddit.org 92 points 2 days ago

The potato joke is also a joke about a genocide.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 14 points 2 days ago
[-] superkret@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Irish genocide is far enough in the past to have become sort of "folklore".
No one who experienced it is still alive or in living memory.
That makes it better suited for small talk, and not equivalent to the Israeli genocide.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 2 points 2 days ago

I'd like to tangentially add that Irish people are possible the most chillest when it comes to their ethnicity and identity. About 11 years ago, I got obsessed with pretending I was Irish for a few months during and after dating an Irish-American girl. I had a terrible fake accent, drank Jameson or Maker's Mark, bragged about my fame with Irish good-bye's, etc. I am in no way Irish in the slightest, and I don't think anyone would even think that. Not one Irish person seemed offended. If anything, they welcomed it and found it entertaining at the least. I think that if I did that with any other ethnicity, people would at least be offended if not angry and retaliatory.

Anyone else experience this? If so, any insight on why this may be?

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