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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

The racism is still VERY much there, but it is structural often, harder to point to, that is my point.

Or in the case of our conversation impossible to point to.

I had a huge reply typed up citing sources on both the ease of which there is to find examples of structural racism against people of color in the USA, and the lack of any sources on the same for those of Irish heritage in the USA but I deleted that post . You say its there, can't point to any scholarly work or even anecdotal examples. I'm not sure what to do with that. I find no sources to learn of this from, and you aren't able to provide any yourself. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm not saying you're making this all up, but I'm also not seeing any corroboration anywhere. There's nothing to act on. Nothing to learn. Nothing to change.

If there is injustice in our society, I want to do my part in working against it, but there's nothing to even start with on on modern day discrimination against Americans of Irish descent.

If you have any more to offer on this, I'm interested, but otherwise it feels like we've exhausted the topic to the ends of our collective knowledge.