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I see the neo-nationalist Matriots of Ireland are escalating their jingoism by shaming working class Irish women who don't have the privilege of being Gaelgoirí. In 2005 David McWilliams predicted that the elite and middle-class 'Hibernian Cosmopolitans' who were increasingly 1/
sending their kids to Gaelscoileana were establishing a pathway to educational empowerment and cultural authenticity that neither the Celtic Tiger nouveau rich nor the aspirant working classes would be able to access or buy their way in to. Even the best of scholars in English 2/
speaking schools cannot attain proficiency or fluency in Irish, without the wealth of undertaking €1,000 trips to the Gaeltacht for 3 week language immersion. Only a small percentage of the 55k students who sit the Leaving Cert each year will have had the privilege of a.. 3/
Gaeltacht college summer course. Not to mention the kids who leave school before Leaving Cert.
So now, fifteen years after McWilliams predicted that the future elite would be wielding their cultural authenticity to estsblish social dominance, we have sneering middle-class.. 4/
So now, fifteen years after McWilliams predicted that the future elite would be wielding their cultural authenticity to estsblish social dominance, we have sneering middle-class.. 4/
self-styled matriots pronouncing that Irish women cannot establish credibility as feminists without demonstrable proficiency i nGaeilge.
The endless torrent of classist, xenophobic, nationalist and misogynistic slurs, smears and sniggers these keyboard warriors and their ..5/
The endless torrent of classist, xenophobic, nationalist and misogynistic slurs, smears and sniggers these keyboard warriors and their ..5/
minions propagate daily, leaves no doubt in the minds of progressives who pursue ideals of social justice, that these factions are committed to corrupting the best aspirations of identity politics and participative democracy, to sow dissent and deepen social division. Their.. 6/
narcissism and hubris fuels the increasing commodification and corporatisation of identity, for which bigotry and hostility are virtual currencies.
There is no burden of proof on women to establish credentials of nationality or cultural authenticity to organise as... 7/
There is no burden of proof on women to establish credentials of nationality or cultural authenticity to organise as... 7/
feminists. We submit to no such conditions when demanded to do so directly by men, we're fucked if we'll do so for the women who act as their emissaries. /End
