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Stop the hate, you bigots!
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Topic Started: Mar 18 2013, 09:43 AM (233 Views)
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Quasimodo
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Mar 18 2013, 09:43 AM
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http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/03/18/erin-go-blegh
Erin Go Blegh
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But moreover, its celebration at Duke and across the United States is an assault on the Irish cultural tradition. This mockery should be banned and punished. And I’ll tell you why.
First off, this abhorrent “party” reduces the personhood of the Irish down to stereotypes. If the Irish were really like you bigots represent us, our only activities would be wearing green and drinking Guinness. That only describes like, 50 percent of the Irish population. The rest of us are offended by the association and stereotype, as those type of Irish people are inferior, and cliché. If you want to represent us in costume, you need to represent the full cultural diversity of the Irish people at once. Ireland has like, a whole three skin shades. I think I even saw a black person there once, but it might have just been Colin Farrell.
But the worst might be the hypersexualization. “Kiss Me, I’m Irish!” shirts might be the worst thing that has happened to Ireland since Bailey’s stopped being sold in barrels. We Irish will not be reduced to your desires to experiment with fire crotches. I’m tired of being just another freckled fetish or leprechaun lover. Why do I have to be a “hot ginger”? Why can’t I just be “hot”?!
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St. Patrick’s Day in America doesn’t stop at denigrating our culture, but trivializes our history. How many of you actually know the history of St. Patrick —the elusive, petite inventor who created an addictive and strangely lucky marshmallow cereal that he shared with Irish children during the potato famine? Later, driven mad by the competitive cereal business, he ran off, claiming that “they” were after his lucky charms (which, history agrees, was probably a euphemism for his testicles). And although you’re happy to joke about them and make shots named after them, do you even KNOW what an Irish car bomb is? No one should make Irish car bomb jokes. Irish car bomb jokes are NEVER funny. God, this is why we still need Irish History Month.
And of course, the people who throw these parties are blissfully if not intentionally ignorant of the pain they cause. St. Paddy’s as it exists today perpetuates deeply painful and excluding stereotypes of the societally disadvantaged Irish Americans. Do you know what it is like to enter a room, and for everyone to assume that just because you’re Irish, you’re awesome to party with? Can you imagine that type of pressure? No, you can’t, you privileged bastard.
So how do we rid our campus of this green monster? The only effective approach is the time-vetted strategy of student activism: self-centered egalitarianism and never letting anything go, ever. If we are actively offended by everything (well, everything exclusively contrary to our interests, that is), we can vilify any supporters of St. Paddy’s day and expose them as uncultured stains on Duke’s socio-economically diverse campus. If nothing else works, we can always report it to Jezebel. With hard work, we may successfully end this totalitarian, anti-Irish regime in time for a holiday everyone can get excited for: Cinco de Mayo! (Remember, you must say it with a gringo accent. Don’t act like you’re doing anyone a favor by rolling those R’s.)
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Mar 18 2013, 09:56 AM
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Another anti-Irish term is "Irish handcuffs" which is
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Irish%20handcuffs
"when a person is carrying an alcoholic beverage in both hands at the same time."
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Mar 18 2013, 10:12 AM
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We're sending the hate-speech police after y'all... Only Rednecks are approved as targets of ridicule.
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Mar 18 2013, 10:56 AM
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Could a Duke frat throw an Irish-themed party?
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Mar 18 2013, 11:33 AM
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POSTER COMMENT at site:- Quote:
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Could a Duke frat throw an Irish-themed party?
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Mar 18 2013, 02:21 PM
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That is hysterical! I especially like the St. Patrick as the Lucky Charms leprechaun comparison.
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