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The racist undertones in your statement is abhorrent. There are many people who hold various illustrious positions in FAANG companies and acquired them through hard work. Progressive statements like yours not only discredit hard working minorities but Europeans as well.

You would probably be surprised to learn about how many people are descendants of enslaved people or existed in boarding schools as Europeans. The Irish comes to mind amongst others.

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You can recognize that racism has and continues to impact people without being racist.

I'd define Success as a dot product of hard work and luck. The less white society likes you, the more luck you need. A bit of extra luck doesn't discount the hard work.

I don’t think the “Irish as slaves” idea is historically accurate[1].

Even without the Wikipedia article, as an Irish person, it’s never come up in my education or in public discourse.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth

Slavery for Irish people looked like Indentured Servitude and may not have been as dehumanizing as chattel slavery but make absolutely no mistake it's still slavery.

Calling it a myth is an absolute joke.

Calling something that isn’t slavery slavery is simply incorrect, and the equivalence has been broadly dismissed by historians.

Without citations outside of the far-left dominated Wikipedia [1] your statements hold no merit.

Coming in to this conversation to downplay the hardships and cruelty imposed on various Europeans throughout the centuries is exactly the level of racism that your original posts presents.

1: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wikipedia-bias-socialism-pa...

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