But I thought "racism" meant "ideology of white supremacy"? :) I doubt English claims of superiority over the Irish ever incorporated skin color.
--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
There was no such claim to begin with. And in
> fact the _first_
> racism was intra-UK and its victims were the Irish.
>
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