I'm that gif of that guy blinking because I got hit with unironic anti-Irish rhetoric aimed specifically at me. It's very "What year is it?" in a holy shit kinda way because just whew.

I am aware of it existing! I am also aware that it was starting to get increasingly peddled again by the GOP post-Trump and they really started to go with it after Biden won the primary.

I'm very much aware that it's not remotely on the same level as the other kinds of racism in the US and it feels extremely weird in that sense to call it racism given /waves but it's also a sort of what in the KKK hell is going on in conservative WASP America that that is also becoming a mainstream thing to do.

it's just very

I'm used to awful comments over my Mexican heritage, but this is a new kind of fresh what the hell.

i get that

my friend is very butch and once had to sidestep a guy who almost ran into her and the guy just snapped a lesbian slur at her

and she was too bewildered to even really be upset because it was just like ???

this is the northeast in the late 2010s??? who's actually that openly homophobic out here???

when she was telling me about it she said her exact thought in the moment was just "what year is it???"

that exact same mood lol

Yeah, like, on the whole it isn't actually... dangerous to me in the same way as the anti-Mexican attitudes are but it's still very... "It's 2022???" with a side of "Should I be worried?"

Wow, what the hell?

really, what year is it??

What is it 1910?

I got into an argument on Reddit because someone posted “Dago’s Delight” to old recipes and people were trying to say that things like Dago and Kraut weren’t slurs because they were young and had never heard them.

In this case it was car bombing.

Just a whole bunch of "what"

Because it was a "joke".

Except it wasn't really one at all because the whole "the Irish are violent people who don't care about innocents" thing is 100% very recent anti-Irish rhetoric and it was like getting slapped with a fish.