@ people who were not born in Ireland and particularly Americans
– It is not Patty’s Day, it is Paddy’s Day. Patty is short for Patricia, Paddy is short for Pádraig which has been anglicised to Patrick.
– It is not Gaelic, it is Irish. In Irish, the language is called Gaelige but that’s pronounced Gwayl-geh.
– Literally no one in Ireland has ever eaten corned beef and cabbage
– We have also never said top of the morning
– If you pinch an Irish person for not wearing green on Paddy’s Day they’re likely to slap you.
– Why do you dye your drinks green?
– It is not “North Ireland” it is “Northern Ireland”. It is not “South Ireland” it is “The Republic of Ireland” or just “Ireland”.
– No, I do not know the Dohertys of Mayo.
– Please, if you must, do things for the craic and not the crack. Cocaine is not a great habit lads.
– Drinks like the “Irish car bomb” and the “black & tan” are incredibly offensive (you wouldn’t drink a “9/11”)
However
– Wearing green is grand
– Having a few drinks is also grand, they don’t even need to be Irish (I drink a Swedish cider most of the time)
– Aye sure queue up some Irish music on youtube it’s great.
– If you want one Irish word to use throughout the day a good one is Sláinte (pronounced slawn-sha) – it’s the equivalent of saying “cheers” before you drink!
Please be respectful on Holidays like this! It’s great to join in and show your respect & appreciation for other cultures celebrations, but remember to actually do that! Have fun, but stay respectful to the culture and religion. 😊
Fun history of corned beef and cabbage.
Beef is cheap in America (lots of land, lots of cows, so there’s such a thing as cheap cuts). So a lot of immigrants who could never afford beef in their home country now had access to beef.
(Example spaghetti and meatballs is an Italian-American invention).
Now Americans hated immigrants (plenty stilldo sadly) and hated anyone who wasn’t Protestant so you had segregation. So in New York the Irish Catholic area was next to the Jewish area. There was solidarity between American Irish and American Jewish immigrants. So Irish-Immigrants bought corned-beef from Jewish butchers.
(In Ireland, you may eat bacon or lamb for St Patrick’s Day, but lamb was (and is) expensive in America, and Irish Immigrants got their meat from Kosher butchers – no bacon).
Brisket is a cut of meat from the front of the cow. It’s a very tough cut of meat. The salting process (it’s like soaked in salt for over a week) and cooking for hours and hours (it’s an all day stew) makes it tender.
So corned beef and cabbage is a dish that evolved out of affordable ingredients (tough cut of beef, cabbage and carrots and potatoes are dirt cheap) and proximity to Jewish immigrants.
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations as we know them now (parades and the like) were started in America by Irish-American immigrants. Because WASP Americans (white, Anglo Saxon, Protestants) hated Catholics and hated the Irish.
And for all immigrants there was a big push to assimilate (give kids English sounding names, forget your language, become Protestant). But people don’t give up religion easily, names and language maybe, but not God.
So still today you have Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, Mexican Catholics, etc and even Americans who aren’t practicing Catholic or aren’t religious may view being raised Catholic as part of a cultural identity linked to their heretage (the same way someone who doesn’t practice Judaism is still Jewish, some difference since Judaism is a hereditary religion, but for immigrants in a country that hates Catholics, being Catholic, having that tradition was and is part of being an outsider to American, part of an identity those in power hated and tried to erase).
So holding giant Irish pride parade celebrating the Catholic patron Saint of Ireland was sort of a “fuck you” to anti-Catholic anti-Irish sentiment. A “fuck you” to the idea that being an American meant erasing your traditions and history and pretending to be a White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
Look at us being proudly Irish and still Catholic. Obnoxiously, visibly Catholic and acting ways that the puritanical Protestants hate.
So what was a family religious Holiday became a big, visible celebration of heretage and homeland (a shared identity). And since it’s a celebration immigrants splurged by buying a big cut of beef (beef is cheaper in America, but immigrants did not have a lot of money and meat is still more than vegetables, so any cut of beef was still a special occasion thing) and supported their Jewish neighbors who ran the butcher’s shop.
(also, since it’s a St’s Feast, Lent restrictions on meat and drinking alcohol didn’t count, so eat a lot of meat and drink).
St Patrick’s Day in the US has its own history, heretage and ties to religion (and persecution for that religion). Traditions are tied to that history. So Corned Beef and Cabbage may not be a thing in Ireland but it’s a part of Irish-American tradition, history and culture.
Polish-American whose older Polish Catholic relatives still emphatically celebrate Dyngus Day for similar reasons. Thanks for the post, it’s appreciated.
Diaspora culture exists and is valid even if it’s not the culture practiced in the homeland! GASP!
the “___ change my mind” guy sitting at a desk is Steven Crowder who is literally a deep conservative “comedian” and the biggest transphobe of 2018 so can we NOT use that meme anymore thanks. he literally calls trans people tr**** in some of his videos and refers to caitlyn jenner (I may not like her but Christ) as a transgender f@scist because she transitioned and refers to her transitioning as “going full #sjw.” this meme is cancelled and not funny. use google if you don’t believe me. bye
yeah actually i did some research (googling. i googled) and this is what the the original image was: (as opposed to what i first saw it as and what other might have, and had assumed that was the real one)
he does stuff like that a lot;
so yeah Yikes.
Shit, I just looked him up as well.
Fucking YIKES, meme cancelled.
FYI. Don’t reblog or make any more memes from this guy. Fucking creep.
I’ve known this was Steven Crowder from the start and I’ve known who Steven Crowder is for probably more than 5 years, I thought most people knew who he was and just memed him anyways. First time I saw this meme I was sceptical and asked the person who reblogged it if they knew who it was, and they knew who it was. I don’t see this meme as a meme that celebrates Steven Crowder or gives him a platform. I always saw this meme as satire. He looks ridiculously smug and arrogant sitting in public, sipping coffee as he’s flagging a banner with the only intent to provoke people around him.
Furthermore some of the earliest forms of this meme are very clear about being satire, I checked the twitter users of the people who made them and they don’t seem to be on board with Steven Crowders politics.
This includes images like;
And this one;
It’s like when people was making a meme out of Richard Spencer, syncing him getting punched in the face to music and stuff.
At this point the meme has evolved further though, the most common version of this meme I’ve seen is “X is a precious baby, change my mind”, X being a character that OP loves ofc. Or some kind of variation of that, usually relating to fandom that reflects OPs opinion. I don’t think that as much means that the creators of these memes are saying that Crowders reasoning is correct because they’re using it the same way he does(when the sign reflects what the person who wrote the sign believes), it’s more like it delegitimizes his strategy and the power of this image because it’s been devalued from provocative political strategy to “i love pikachu bitch fukin fight me”.
On top of that, I wanna note that many people put their subjective views as the caption for these images and the reason why this meme is funny(at least to some) is because ‘change my mind’ is obviously not something they ever mean. It may SAY “change my mind”, but since when has OP ever meant that someone should attempt it, or even consider actually changing their minds? It’s because he doesn’t mean it when he wrote it in the first place and so in a sense these meme calls him out for being intelllectually dishonest and just another troll.
I don’t think this meme is cancelled. I don’t see the harm in spreading this image with different captions but I DO think people should know who this man is, I thought he was a bit more well known than that. But I think most of all, it’s important to point out, I’ve never ever really seen a rightwing version of this meme and I think it’s for all the reasons explained in this post, no rightwing person would spread a meme that makes Crowder look like a fucking clown(because he himself, from the start is making himself look like a fucking clown).
“11. Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.” -The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
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