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“Racism” towards the Irish on here

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Giantbanger · 30/10/2018 10:09

Can we please talk about it and can you please get your mods some training.

There was a thread that stood from yesterday. The op was goady and people were reporting the fuck out of it from yesterday.

It went this morning because the op was previously banned for being goady. No surprises there then.

But it contained a post from a member of MNHQ that really bothered me and I would like to discuss.

Add message | Report | Message poster EstherMumsnet (MNHQ) Mon 29-Oct-18 19:43:38
Hello!
Thanks for all the reports on this one. We'd like to leave this up as it's a pretty interesting discussion - one for the colonial/post colonial literature experts perhaps (yes - we know there's an argument over whether Irish literature counts as such!) - so please keep to the spirit of the site when discussing this and make your points politely. Thanks

So if there’s a “racist” thread about the Irish, it is an interesting discussion and the Irish need to be polite when telling racists they are racists.

(And Yes. I know in the dictionary definition Irish isn’t a race. It’s a subset ethnicity of Caucasian but the term is used more broadly in general use than the dictionary definition.)

OP posts:
Inniu · 30/10/2018 10:41

But moderators in a busy discussion forum should receive education and training. Ignorance from MNHQ is not good enough.

Biologifemini · 30/10/2018 10:35

I didn’t even look at that thread. Was expecting to read some nonsense about James Joyce being from Hull so I didn’t look.
But yes I am always surprised but some of the comments.
I hope just out of ignorance rather than malicious!

MaisyPops · 30/10/2018 10:32

I read it as 'it's an interesting debate about whether Irish literature counts under the umbrella of colonial/post colonial literature', not 'It's debatable if Irish literature is listerature'.

SpoonBlender · 30/10/2018 10:29

Relic pretty sure the mod was being uncertain about whether Irish lit can be considered "post-colonial" or not, not whether it was literature or not - that's impossible to be in doubt.

RelicHunter · 30/10/2018 10:21

I didn’t see this thread but agree with OP. I also winced at, one for the colonial/post colonial literature experts perhaps (yes - we know there's an argument over whether Irish literature counts as such!). Might be just me but sounds a tad dismissive of Irish Literature, almost as if it’s inferior BUT it could be me not getting the nuance behind it.

Sakura7 · 30/10/2018 10:13

Agree with you OP, the level of ignorance is staggering but sadly not surprising.

I suggest the mods open a history book before posting the kind of rubbish we saw yesterday.