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Originally Posted by Textcritic
These points are helpful, but this particular one has me wondering about the extent of ethnic caricatures geographically. While you posit that "Fighting Irish" is acceptable in North America by virtue of the specifics in their immigration history, would the same hold in the UK where Ireland was occupied and marginalized by the English for centuries? Or does the treatment of the Irish at the hands of the English preclude the same usage in the UK?
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I think if your state didn’t do the oppressing, it makes it different. I know that’s a cop out, and there are limits to it of course, but still. There’s things that a more offensive in certain parts of the world than others. It is what it is.
It’s inarguable the Irish and English have a very contentious past, and I suspect trying to having a cartoonish Irish mascot when you’re in Liverpool or Leeds doesn’t go over well.