''Nothing But The Same Old Story''
[900 Years Of Anti-Irish Racism]

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/389725-abc-cancels-roseanne


 

Roseanne Barr follows a long traditional road of racists who depict historically oppressed people as cartoon caricatures and those who fight for their civil rights as less than human.   I could dwell on the many comments of Roseanne but I will not.  It would serve no useful purpose. What is useful - for those interested - in how such comments are carefully crafted to hurt not just one individual but an entire people - and why most of the mainstream media usually give them  a 'pass' 'with a wink and a nod'.   I am including here a selection of nearly 900 years of anti-Irish racist cartoons from Britain - almost right up until  the present day.      I include them with no further comment.

Patrick Emek, May 2018

Published here with kind permission of 'Information on Ireland' from the book

''Nothing But the Same Old Story - The Roots Of Anti-Irish Racism''

ISBN 0 9507381 5 8

First published in 1984

Second impression published in 1985