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s0nicfan posted...

The Irish have always been considered white. That whole "the irish used to not be white" concept is a modern one made up by people trying to push the idea that "whiteness" is completely divorced from skin color:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/03/22/sorry-but-the-irish-were-always-white-and-so-were-the-italians-jews-and-so-on/

It just goes to show the long standing effects of slavery. That by having someone say "the Irish were not white prior to slavery" someone can go "Oh ho! That's where you're wrong! If you see during the times where slavery was a thing in America they obviously were counted as white!" and think that they somehow made an actual smart point. As if the original source's entire point was that it was something that existed mostly prior to America being a thing in the first place.

I'll go with the hundreds of history books/scholarly journals/etc. talking about the oppression of the Irish over a WaPo article.