I’ve noticed on this website a lot of Americans like to call their president their “big wet boy.”
And I would like to notify them that in Ireland, the president (currently Michael Higgins, different guy than the taoiseach Micheál Martin) is Uachtarán na hÉireann (President of Ireland). Uachtarán means cream (like when cream rises, also why we say “cream of the crop” in English).
All of this to say, while America may have a big wet boy for now, Ireland always has and will always have a creamy boy.
I didn’t mean to contradict what you initially said. By “benefit of the doubt” I mean I give more leniency to nationalists when their people and culture have been genocided by an imperial power. Colonized people as a whole, in my opinion, can be cornered into a nationalist stance. I do not mean to defend any right-wing or reactionary views.
i understand. his vulgar nationalism is one of the more forgiveable things about him. however his actions from 1921 onwards are totally unforgivable in my view and him and his ilk are a big part of why the country sucks so much shit today.
You’re right, I don’t know the history. It was an off-the-cuff comment.
you’re fine, he is still widely known/portrayed, here and elsewhere, as The Cool Irish Revolutionary (we are even taught in school that he was brave and good for signing the treaty) so i totally get it. just something i feel the need to push back on when I see it because it’s a symptom of the prevailing liberal historiography of the period.
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