[Boxbot]

pretty sure the british also saw to the irish as subhuman, which also enabled their exploitation

[randompwd]

Every inch of the British establishment was involved in anti-irish propaganda inlcuding multiple cartoons depicting the Irish as less evolved/symian.

for just a flavour: https://ukdiss.com/examples/analysing-the-political-cartoons...

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/apes-psych...

This kept happening up to and through the 1970s.

Also worth mentioning this prick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cummings

[disgruntledphd2]

Yeah, lazy, drunken, Catholic Irish.

It's worth pointing out that when my Dad went to London for work in the 50's, there were signs all over the place saying, "No dogs; No blacks; No Irish"