A lot of mud indeed. This is a bottomless pit. David makes the mistake himself in imagining that Catholics had a much easier time of it.
As a Montrealer, he should be well aware of the treatment of the Irish by the Scottish, and he may be too young to remember, but in the US Catholicism was by no means a “ticket to whiteness” until Kennedy, the idea of a Catholic president was as ludicrous as a Jewish one.
The entire exercise is doomed. Pointing out exceptions to the last person’s grievance leads nowhere fast. What we need is the moral courage to say a) we should not use people’s skin color, or any other immutable characteristic, as a basis for disliking that person, and that b) there will forever be people that do it anyway.
By the way, I am not directing this at David. I suspect he agrees with what I have to say.
A lot of mud indeed. This is a bottomless pit. David makes the mistake himself in imagining that Catholics had a much easier time of it.
As a Montrealer, he should be well aware of the treatment of the Irish by the Scottish, and he may be too young to remember, but in the US Catholicism was by no means a “ticket to whiteness” until Kennedy, the idea of a Catholic president was as ludicrous as a Jewish one.
The entire exercise is doomed. Pointing out exceptions to the last person’s grievance leads nowhere fast. What we need is the moral courage to say a) we should not use people’s skin color, or any other immutable characteristic, as a basis for disliking that person, and that b) there will forever be people that do it anyway.
By the way, I am not directing this at David. I suspect he agrees with what I have to say.
AZW