{"id":2623,"date":"2015-07-15T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:52:55","slug":"the-irish-need-not-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2015\/07\/15\/the-irish-need-not-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irish Need Not Apply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#0187; New York Times, Timothy Egan: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/10\/opinion\/not-like-us.html\">Not Like Us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is attracting quite a following with his comments about Mexican immigrants: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Mexico sends its people, they\u2019re not sending their best. They\u2019re not sending you. They\u2019re not sending you. They\u2019re sending people that have lots of problems, and they\u2019re bringing those problems with us. They\u2019re bringing drugs. They\u2019re bringing crime. They\u2019re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(And Ted Cruz endorses him!)<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2015\/07\/15\/the-irish-need-not-apply\/\">NYT Op-Ed by Timothy Egan<\/a> reminds us of history. Before the Mexicans, there were the Chinese, and before them&#8230; as Egan describes, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThey were criminals \u2014 thugs and thieves \u2014 a single ethnic group that filled the jails of big cities. \u201cScum unloaded on American wharves,\u201d one speaker in Philadelphia said of them. Dirty, filthy, foreign. As for their children, they were \u201cutterly ignorant of a place such as school,\u201d The New York Herald reported.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Irish, in the 1850s. (Hello! My name is Mark Kelly, with a family line aligned to Ireland and the Isle of Man.) Anyone remember from their history books, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Irish_sentiment\">The Irish need not apply<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Every era has its immigrants to demonize, and there is always a (lower) class of American society eager to demonize the outsiders. Trump is tapping into the Republican base enthusiastic to do so. He will win his base, and lose in any larger election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0187; New York Times, Timothy Egan: Not Like Us Donald Trump is attracting quite a following with his comments about Mexican immigrants: When Mexico sends its people, they\u2019re not sending their best. They\u2019re not sending you. They\u2019re not sending you. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2015\/07\/15\/the-irish-need-not-apply\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,50,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-human-progress","category-morality","category-social-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}