"People outside these areas would struggle to recognize physical characteristics identifying these groups, but people within group at least believed they could tell each other apart. "
I still remember as a child asking why Catholics and Protestants hated each other, and learning what the difference was between their beliefs. I was probab…
"People outside these areas would struggle to recognize physical characteristics identifying these groups, but people within group at least believed they could tell each other apart. "
I still remember as a child asking why Catholics and Protestants hated each other, and learning what the difference was between their beliefs. I was probably about 7. Differences so small that most people could barely even understand them, and it wasn't even possible to tell them apart by looking, and yet God knows how people died over it.
It was a truly formative moment in my understanding of how stupid and destructive bigotry is.
This is a great point about the Catholics and the Protestants too because it reminds us that the Irish developed their own bigotry, which they also inflicted on Black people in America. It’s comfortable to see ourselves as solely victims or oppressors, but as we’ve discussed before, most of us have both in our backgrounds.
"People outside these areas would struggle to recognize physical characteristics identifying these groups, but people within group at least believed they could tell each other apart. "
I still remember as a child asking why Catholics and Protestants hated each other, and learning what the difference was between their beliefs. I was probably about 7. Differences so small that most people could barely even understand them, and it wasn't even possible to tell them apart by looking, and yet God knows how people died over it.
It was a truly formative moment in my understanding of how stupid and destructive bigotry is.
This is a great point about the Catholics and the Protestants too because it reminds us that the Irish developed their own bigotry, which they also inflicted on Black people in America. It’s comfortable to see ourselves as solely victims or oppressors, but as we’ve discussed before, most of us have both in our backgrounds.