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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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