The substitution of the victims of actual atrocities committed against enslaved Africans with Irish victims.1625 saw the end of King James I's rule and the rise of King Charles I to the throne.
James II had not been even born yet he was born in 1633 and started his rule in 1685. A reference to an alleged 1625 declaration by King James II to send thousands of Irish prisoners to the West Indies as slaves.Using photographs of victims of the Holocaust or 20th century child laborers, claiming that they are Irish slaves.Intending to diminish the discrimination that African-Americans have historically experienced, with memes like "The Irish were slaves, too.Irish women were forced to reproduce with African men.Irish slaves were treated worse than African slaves.That all Irish people were enslaved after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649.The conspiracy theory that historians and the media are covering up Irish slavery.2.1 Irish involvement in the slave tradeĬommon elements to memes that propagate the myth are:.In 2016, academics and Irish historians wrote to condemn the myth. Reilly, "it is misleading, if not erroneous, to apply the term 'slave' to Irish and other indentured servants in early Barbados". The myth has been in circulation since at least the 1990s and has been disseminated in online memes and social media debates. It also can hide the facts around Irish involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. Some white nationalists, and others who want to minimize the effects of hereditary chattel slavery on Africans and their descendants, have used this false equivalence to deny racism against African Americans or claim that African Americans are too vocal in seeking justice for historical grievances. The Irish slaves myth is a pseudohistorical narrative that conflates the penal transportation and indentured servitude of Irish people during the 17th and 18th centuries, with the hereditary chattel slavery experienced by the forebears of the African diaspora. An example of one of the memes spreading false information, modified from a Southern Poverty Law Center article on the subject, 2016.
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