That is completely true, and I imagine that if any of the atrocities committed against Irish, Scottish, Polish, Catholics (the list goes on really) had been as prominent in our culture as study of the Holocaust has been, then you would find the same hypocrisy there too. Questioning the scope and scale of Jewish oppression is (quite rightly) absolutely not tolerated in our society, however doing the same for Irish oppression for instance is perfectly acceptable.
More recently this line of reasoning has been quite thoroughly debunked, but you’d be forgiven if you never really knew the Irish were ever oppressed, not noticing that disputing this was common place or not noticing that such denials have been proven false. Outside of some high Irish density areas, these topics have never been a significant part of our culture. So a white Irishman saying “I too have grievances of historical oppression” isn’t going to be taken all that seriously, whereas a Jewish complaint would be.
Which is really what my whole point has been in this thread. When you start grouping people together in large numbers, you deny them any level of individual identity, or shared culture that may set them apart from other group members. When you do this along the lines of skin color or ethnicity, you’re just being racist.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3790116?seq=1
More recently this line of reasoning has been quite thoroughly debunked, but you’d be forgiven if you never really knew the Irish were ever oppressed, not noticing that disputing this was common place or not noticing that such denials have been proven false. Outside of some high Irish density areas, these topics have never been a significant part of our culture. So a white Irishman saying “I too have grievances of historical oppression” isn’t going to be taken all that seriously, whereas a Jewish complaint would be.
Which is really what my whole point has been in this thread. When you start grouping people together in large numbers, you deny them any level of individual identity, or shared culture that may set them apart from other group members. When you do this along the lines of skin color or ethnicity, you’re just being racist.