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"'The first slaves shipped to the Americans Colonies in 1619 were 100 white children from Ireland,' reads the text of an image shared on Facebook on June 20. 'Truth matters.'"
#PowerControlChattelSlavery
#ToponymEuropeIreland
#1619_
#PowerControlBarbaryCaptivityNarratives
Context "No, the first slaves shipped to the American colonies weren't white Irish children" [fact-checked]
Supplementary [pdf] #PoliticsNationalismWhite #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos #NarrativeTruthFabricationIrishSlaves #ReasoningFallacyOfRelativePrivation https://limerick1914.medium.com/factcheck-were-the-irish-the-first-slaves-in-america-e0df2f6a6e73 [Wikipedia] https://developmenteducation.ie/feature/were-irish-people-the-first-slaves-in-america/ https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/the-myth-of-the-irish-slave-white-supremacy-and-social-media/
Addendum #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism where the prospect of 'white slavery' is used to diminish the reality of actual slavery. The statement's logic betrays a particular preponderance with skin colour where the mere act of switching from black to white is used to diminish the significance of the atrocity - following a logic along the lines of: "because there were white slaves before black slaves then it is no longer worth considering the plight (and therefore consequence for the ancestors of) black slaves" - in short, the history and historical consequences of slavery aren't worth consideration...
Context "No, the first slaves shipped to the American colonies weren't white Irish children" [fact-checked]
Supplementary [pdf] #PoliticsNationalismWhite #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos #NarrativeTruthFabricationIrishSlaves #ReasoningFallacyOfRelativePrivation https://limerick1914.medium.com/factcheck-were-the-irish-the-first-slaves-in-america-e0df2f6a6e73 [Wikipedia] https://developmenteducation.ie/feature/were-irish-people-the-first-slaves-in-america/ https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/the-myth-of-the-irish-slave-white-supremacy-and-social-media/
Addendum #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism where the prospect of 'white slavery' is used to diminish the reality of actual slavery. The statement's logic betrays a particular preponderance with skin colour where the mere act of switching from black to white is used to diminish the significance of the atrocity - following a logic along the lines of: "because there were white slaves before black slaves then it is no longer worth considering the plight (and therefore consequence for the ancestors of) black slaves" - in short, the history and historical consequences of slavery aren't worth consideration...
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