My husband just finally got a promotion at work. The only problem is they have assigned him a graveyard shift, even though we are expecting our first child around the same time the job starts. The pay increase was nominal, which obviously isn’t ideal, and then I found out they hired someone else with the same experience and tenure, who isn’t expecting a child, and gave him the daytime shift my husband asked for.
Fast forward the better part of a year, and I have fallen out of touch with this couple, aside from the occasional text message here and there. A mutual friend recently saw on social media a comment from one of them about looking forward to their wedding. This friend then searched to see if they had a wedding site and saw that there was some updated info about an upcoming wedding toward the end of 2021, which would be wildly inconvenient for me to attend .
Something is definitely missing from the story. My bets on this person started going off about the “Irish Slave myth” or something to that extent...
You have INCREDIBLY SHITY FRIENDS. I know, I've had friends like that. I'm part Latino, part Asian & part British. When I was looking into my British side, I had friends that said I was 'trying to be white'. They became my former friends. Every bit of you is important. Fuck them!
I think this person misunderstood something. POC typically understand the need to find out about where you came from.
That’s insulting to say Irish Americans have no culture and untrue. All cultures have culture! How is being interested in one’s own heritage a dog whistle? I agree with Prudie, seems like something is missing here.
'Irish Americans have no culture and that it was just a dog whistle to become interested in Irish history.' Why--why would that be a problem? Why is 'Irish history' something people would have to dogwhistle?
Have they tried eating plain boiled potatoes to ease their suffering?