(07-11-2023, 12:22 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(07-10-2023, 11:58 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: You should look up "hyperbolic" 
It doesn't mean what you think it means.
I didn't try to establish a baseline.
I asked if Irish folk were still being lynched in the 60's. 
You've created some weird false-narrative around my post that was never my intent. Go back and read it with fresh eyes tomorrow, maybe you'll see it. 

Or just stay stuck on the number of lynchings by decade. Has zero to do with the post, but whatever. 

To the bolded:
Umm, the OP. He did. I'm merely addressing the thread topic with that.

I know what hyperbolic means, broseph. Lynchings weren't common in the 60's for anybody. There wasn't a huge disparity between blacks and whites of the lynchings that did occur. Every statement has implications, so you can't just throw out a line like, "Were Irish Americans being strung up in trees for being Irish in the mid-sixties," then pivot to make it seem like you're just asking an honest question about the Irish. You weren't. You were making an implication about black struggles in the 60's, and, more importantly, casually throwing out an idea that they were being hung from trees. Which they weren't.

I guess would be a good time to point out that 3 of them were shot, one was severely burned and died after identifying the people who set fire to his shop, and the other one was actually lynched in the 30's and survived... he died naturally in his 60's after becoming a successful artist. So, the scores' 2-2 in favor of racial harmony. Turns out, people are just haters. If you can't see how it's hyperbolic to suggest that blacks were being strung up from trees in the 60's, then that's on you, man.

It seems odd we're even having this conversation since I mostly agreed with you. All you had to do is admit to yourself you were probably being hyperbolic and just ignore my comment.

As to the OP talking about it, sure. Guess you could have been talking to him. Seemed like you were talking to me. I have adjusted my previous statement magically to make sense within this newfound context. *poof*

The comment was pointing out a disparity between asking for Irish reparations vs African American reparations.

Sorry you're "hung-up" on which decade the lynchings were most frequent. 
*rimshot* I'll be here all week - Cue the accusations of racism and tastelessness 

If I'd said "in the past century" instead of "the 60's" it would have made the point more accurately, but since Black people were still being killed for being Black in the 1960's and Irish Americans were not being killed for being Irish in 1960's America - my point was and is perfectly valid and completely void of hyperbole.

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