WIBU to delete someone off my FB for sharing Irish 'jokes'...

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You know how years ago people used to tell really unfunny jokes based on the premise that Irish people were stupid/alcoholic/ terrorists?

Well it pissed me off 30 years ago but in general these days people no longer tell Irish 'jokes'.

so there is this English woman on my FB that I worked and lived with years and years ago. I hardly know her as an adult tbh as we were teens back then.<

Anyway so she shares this meme that is so unfunny, I didn't even smile. Something about 'Paddy' and a lorry of turf, and him wanting to send his lawn away to be cut. 'What's dat' says his mate...

So we have the 'funny accent' and the purported 'stupidity' of the Irish being shared as hilarious.

One of the women who 'liked' it is Jewish! (I knew her back then too) Imagine if I shared a Jewish joke!!? (well I wouldn't but it would go down like a sack of shit, and rightly so)

It is a little personal to me as my dad is Irish, spent his working life as an academic. So these kind of jokes piss me off. Especially in 2018.

WIBU to defriend her and tell her why? or would that be an over-reaction?

And banning offensive posters really works doesn't it? Moved on to Liverpudlians now as well I see. What a charmer.

This thread is bizarre. So many people essentially saying 'oh it's just taking the mickey, lighten up' etc! Really? REALLY? If you think this, you're incredibly ignorant.

Rule of life: It's not okay to make shitty jokes dehumanising a group you're not part of - obviously. And no, your grandma being Irish / doing it herself does not get you a free pass.

Yeah, that about sums it up I think pandarific.

As someone said on a recent similar thread, it's fine to not know - nobody knows everything, you slip up through not realising you were being offensive - you awkwardly go 'er, sorry, I didn't realise' - the world moves on. What's not fine is to not know, not want to know when you're challenged, and act in an aggressive, belitting manner towards the people who are trying to tell you.

Re: the 'potato' thing. Most Irish people have very good understanding of what happened during the famine; they teach it in schools, as you would if there was an event in your history like it. I don't want to be trite, but there are 10 different things most Irish people could tell you about events that happened that would break your heart. So when you make a joke about 'potatoes' to an Irish person, it's a bit like saying '...and wasn't it hilarious when all those children died?! Ahhh, my sides - they ache.'

(If anyone was curious about the famine, this book is good.)

I've had a little time to look into some of the history of the potato famine. I knew a bit, but not the details.

Horrendous history.

I just want to say how deeply sorry I am that the Irish people were made to suffer so hideously because they were viewed as simply another 'conquered country'.

I hope and hope for a better world where our governments stop dividing us.