As a white Irish-American watching in horror as other Irish-Americans try to justify bigotry because “we were discriminated against too,” let me just say without reservation: that’s bullshit.

If your response to your heritage being mistreated/enslaved is that you should be allowed to perpetuate that mistreatment on someone else, you’re just an abusive fuck who’s misusing your heritage as an excuse for bigotry. Fuck off.