An obsession with transposing the prejudices of American progressives into Irish culture, whether those prejudices fit or not.
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A US hospital chain has ceased using race as a factor to determine who should receive Covid-19 treatment, according to a statement released Friday. SSM Health, which operates 23 hospitals across the US, was the subject of controversy after it was found that they were using race to determine who should receive monoclonal antibody treatments […]
Like most truly terrible ideas, the notion that companies, state agencies, and other institutions should proactively discriminate in favour of people from minority backgrounds and races is built on a foundation of good intentions. It is important, after all, to recognise that most people, most of the time, are trying to do good things, and […]
“Mainstream feminism supports root causes of sexual violence.”
A strange new medievalism is about. It’s a complex set of attitudes and public penitence, confessions, and rituals; all coming from an elite class, and it has all the hallmarks of a medieval feudalism. The dukes and lords of this medievalism are the credentialed elite. Their castles and Chateau are the institutional hives of media, […]
“For a range of outcomes, white working class children trail behind their peers in almost all ethnic minority groups, although the extent of these disparities vary by area.”
It seems like RTE has gone all 1968 on our ass. Not only have they guilt-bombed us now for months over our white supremacy and slavery associations, but now it seems the national broadcaster thinks that abolishing the police is something they should give a “platform” to. On Tuesday, the national broadcaster posted a piece […]
The current debate over the extent of Irish “white privilege” and indeed responsibility for slavery has led to the revival of what has sometimes been an unseemly debate over whether the transportation of Irish people to the West Indies during the Cromwellian plantation constituted a form of slavery. Much of the debate over such matters […]
Over the past week, we’ve heard a lot about what a racist country Ireland is and how we must atone for our “white privilege”. Ben Scallan comments. #gript