The publisher of a schoolbook intended to promote diversity has apologised after portraying a typical Irish family as cabbage-chewing, potato-munching xenophobes. The Telegraph has more.
The offending material is being pulled by the Educational Company of Ireland after uproar in Ireland, where the book was part of the curriculum for 14 and 15-year-olds.
In a chapter called All Different, All Equal, an all-white and red-headed Irish family are depicted on a farm wearing Aran jumpers.
It says that Family A eat “potatoes, bacon and cabbage every day” and “do not like change or difference”. The children “get told off if we mix with people with a different religion from ours, as they would be a bad influence”.
The two children are shown Irish dancing. All their relatives are Irish, and they are banned from playing “foreign games” or watching films made outside Ireland.
The family are compared unfavourably with a mixed-race family, who are shown outside Rome’s coliseum. In contrast, they “love change and difference”, eat “curry, pizza and Asian food”, travel internationally and visit art galleries.
Family B says in the book: “We have relations in London and Australia and our family is part-Irish, part-Romanian and part-Dutch. Most years we house-swap with a family in a different country. It is a great way to meet people and learn about other cultures and societies.”
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“an all-white and red-headed Irish family are depicted on a farm wearing Aran jumpers.”
False. It should be “an all-white, red-headed, rosy-cheeked, blue/green-eyed Irish family are depicted as olive-skinned, dark frizzy-haired, thick-lipped, brown-eyed immigrants from the Third World, on a farm wearing Aran jumpers and pretending to be Irish step dancers.”
Good news that the book’s been pulled, though.
Actually, one thing that baffles me: the vibrant multicultural family is part Irish, part Dutch and part Romanian but the guy (father?) seems black. How does that work?
In any case, this kind of multicultural family is now hopelessly passé: one man and one woman? Come, on guys, that’s just so heteronormative, I am outraged! Unless, of course at least one of them is trans, although who knows, give it a few years and that might not be progressive enough.
The odd thing about diversity is that it only ever works in one direction —-LESS WHITE PEOPLE.
That’s about the size of it. Here Ivor Cummins takes a look at this and where it all stems from. I’m sure we can pretty much guess but look no further than the likes of globalist ( and former boss of Goldman Sachs ), Peter Sutherland, who then went on to join the UN as Migration Chief and thought that the EU should ”undermine national homogeneity”. Big Law play their part, in the form of Dentons, the world’s biggest law firm. Basically all the agendas being pushed by the usual suspects are designed to weaken society. It’s a multipronged attack, with kids being the soft targets;
https://x.com/FatEmperor/status/1831721180861960657
Exactly, at work ‘diverse’ now literally means ‘non-white’. Go to Burkina Faso and the population is nearly 100% diverse!
How would the population of these places react if hundreds of thousands of white people continually arrived in boats and were put up in hotels? Mybe they would not be too pleased and perhaps rightly so.—-Would their government and media class them as “racist”?
Despite white people not being part of the new in crowd, the so-called ‘Global Majority’.
When DS first ran the article about this book I pointed out the book is plainly racist.
So how come the DEI mob can promote anti-white racism?
How come anti-white racism is OK?
How come racist critical race theory is allowed at all?
It is discriminatory and outright effing racist.
But that’s OK because its only giving all white people a taste of their own medicine.
And BTW I have never seen a red-headed Irish family nor indeed a red-headed Irish person.
So it is also anti-ginger racism as well.
It promotes hate and loathing of people with ginger hair.
There is a bigger percentage of redheads in Ireland than in any other country in the world, but it’s still only 10%, so they’re a minority in Ireland.
I agree with you that their portrayal in that stupid schoolbook is promoting gingerphobia!
We should all stop using the Indian Racist Term for red-haired people: “ginger”.
As you know, ginger is PALE YELLOW with a beige outer covering. It is NOT RED, or orange or anything other than pale yellow.
So where does that strange term “ginger” come from? INDIA, where red-haired people are called “demons”, hated and reviled, and called “Jhinga” meaning “CURRY-COLOURED HAIR”, reflected in the names for some Indian curry dishes in the UK.
When Indians began swarming into the West, and Britons heard them calling red-haired people and cats “Jhingas”, the Brits thought they were saying “ginger”, and the name stuck.
Let’s stop using this Evil Racist Indian Word for our Rare and Beautiful Red-haired People, everywhere in the world.
Orange-haired?
They have been called Redheads for centuries, so what’s wrong with that? Their hair is regarded as beautiful in all western countries except Britain, because of the Indian immigrants literally demonising them, as I have already explained.
The problem is that ‘red haired’, ‘redhead’, ginger haired are used to identify what is neither red nor ginger.
I have demonstrated this repeatedly in comments here.
We call people with all kinds of hair colour ‘red haired’ when they just are not red haired.
And the issue that arises is the ridiculous claim that 10% of indigenous Irish people have red hair which I have also demonstrated is based on nothing – thin air. The alleged statistic is unsupported by any reliable research or evidence.
FACT CHECK
The claim 10% of Irish people have red hair is not only directly contrary to my personal experience of many decades in the UK and Ireland, it appears to be based on crap ‘estimates’.
From World Population Review:
And from the same crap source:
Ireland: Quite possibly the redhead capital of the world
Additionally, take another look at the picture from the book at the top of this DS article. The cartoon Irish family do not have ‘red’ hair.
Furthermore, go online and look up famous Irish people with red hair and their hair is not ‘red’.
And yes, I can tell the difference between the three traffic light colours.
Auburn hair for example is not red hair – it is a moderate reddish-brown to brown colour.
When I see a statistic that looks crap I can often be right.
And in this case I am.
More confirmation the 10% redheads in Ireland statistic is crap.
Mapping redheads: which country has the most? The Guardian 25 Nov 2013
……..
In addition to the family in the picture having brown hair, the hens are brown and the cows are brown Fresians.
Even so-called Red Holstein-Friesian cows are not red but brown.
Whilst Harry Duke of
SussexMontecito is described as having ‘ginger’ hair that is not correct according to the predominant type of ginger used in cooking.What is the colour of ginger
Harry has hair which seems to be more orange than red and is certainly not the colour of ginger.
I’ve already explained this above. The term “ginger” for redheads originates in a racist Indian word for them.
Wrong. The historical etymology is irrelevant. Current usage is relevant.
The term ‘ginger’ is used for ginger haired people who really appear to have orange hair.
Ginger as commonly found and sold in the UK is a different colour.
Red ginger is not commonly found in the UK and it is red and not the orange colour of ‘ginger haired’ people.
It is not safe to believe everything you read.
See my prior comment by way of example.
And that nicely coloured map has no source to back it up.
The source of this ‘map’ seems to be Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Maps/comments/qid1c7/redhaired_people_in_europe/
Not a source I favour bearing in mind the kinds of people who put information on Reddit.
As bad as Wikipedia – edited too often by 9 year-olds and middle-aged men who spend their sorry lives on it so far as I can see.
Look at that concentration in Russia! What’s that all about, I wonder? How did all those redheads get there?
They did not. They are not there. The map is bunk based on thin air and not fact.
As already demonstrated repeatedly by me here.
I also noticed the father has got remains of his last meal of potatoes Colcannon Mash and Champ, bacon and cabbage down the front of his heavy cable weave jumper
Just to make the family look a little more primitive!
https://youtu.be/pvz1RVv6CFM?si=VLJ2zqppwF462mZd
Enlarge the picture and you will see it – like his hair – is brown.
As he is holding a pitchfork in one hand and not a table fork one might assume it is not a food substance on his fictional jumper.
Or at least if it might have been of a fictional food origin it is not by the time it has made its fictional way onto the fictional jumper.
Why would a stereotypical Irish family be wearing Arran knitwear? That would be foreign imports surely?
Sheesh.
The Aran jumper […] takes its name from the Aran islands off the west coast of Ireland.
[Quote from Wikipedai]
Snap! I just finished typing that same thing! But my comment is “awaiting approval” and has disappeared.
Arran is one island off the west coast of Scotland, which is what “soundofreason” means, I think.
The Aran Islands are off the West Coast of Ireland. The main language is still Irish Gaelic.
Yes, I know! I was saying that to SoundofReason…see my comment below.
And there was me thinking it was a spelling mistake. Oh well.
The largest of the three islands of Aran is Inishmore, the smallest is Inisheer where Father Ted was filmed !
The wife fell off her hired bike three times when we visited, very comical at the time!
“The Aran jumper (Irish: Geansaí Árann), also called a fisherman’s jumper, is a style of jumper[1] that takes its name from the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland.[2][3]
“Arran” is one island off the west coast of Scotland.
An important distinction between family A and family B implicit but not mentioned in the text is family A cooks their own food based on regional and seasonal vegetables (which, for practical purposes, mostly means potatoes, cabbage and meat aka meat and two veg)
while family B, like good citizens of nowhere should always do, relies on Don’t cook, just eat-style takeaways aka curry, pizza, Asian food. This also highlights the total cluelessness of the author – doubtlessly another Gobalized fastfood!-bottomfeeder – about all these other cultures and societies he believes to be getting to know because of The Expert-Approved Lifestyle™ as curries are Asian food, just not advertised as such in fastfood outlets.
Family A are eco-friendly!
Family A look like Romanians.
Romanians with afros!
Yes! Here is a real redhead, complete with freckles:
I detest curries, and wouldn’t touch ’em with a barge pole.
Yep.
As I have already noted here.
What is the moron author’s next book to be about?
The nice religious extremist family that has just moved in next door and how we must all change to integrate ourselves to the ways of religious extremists to overcome our white racist privilege.
We all need to expose anti-white racist bigots and their harmful ideologies.
They don’t even realise they are racists so it needs to be spelt out to them.
They believe they are right and everyone else is wrong.
Same applies to misogynist sexist sex discriminatory gender ideologists who believe wimmin are women and deny women their human rights, equality and fairness.
They need to be told what they are.
They clearly don’t realise and also believe they are right and the rest of us are wrong.
These episodes are useful because they unveil the beliefs, convictions and ideological bias of the “progressive” elite.
They try to hide how much they despise the indigenous population of their own countries by wrapping it up in trendy ideas but occasionally the mask slips and you get a glimpse of their true beliefs.
I would be interested to hear that all these immigrants are diverse hibernophiles who enjoy the local delicacies of cabbage, bacon and potatoes. How do Muslins cope with bacon washed down with Guiness?
DEI cuts both ways but you would never know it either here or in the Emerald Isle.
What I find instructive is that there’s an implicit assumption that Family A are somehow bad people or not living their lives correctly and that they need to change. I don’t personally live as they do but as long as they are not poking their nose into my business or committing crimes (real crimes that is, not fake ones like “hate speech”) who am I to say how they live?
This was a bit more evident in the original article but traces of it are still in here:
It says that Family A eat “potatoes, bacon and cabbage every day” and “do not like change or difference”.
Subtext: Family A father and mother are stupid and narrow-minded, racist and homophobe, like people eating potatoes or cabbage are wont to be.
The children “get told off if we mix with people with a different religion from ours, as they would be a bad influence”.
Subtext: Family A father and mother oppress their own children because they’re fanatic islamophobic Catholics.
All their relatives are Irish, and they are banned from playing “foreign games” or watching films made outside Ireland.
Subtext: Family A father and mother are boring and narrow-minded as even none of their relatives ever had sex with excitingly coloured non-Irish people. They’re also nationalist Nazis oppressing their own children who don’t like sport and don’t have the cultural sophistication necessary to appreciate good movies, they just extend their boorish Irish Nazi-nationalism into both areas to some degree.
Subtext of all of that: Oh those poor, oppressed children! Someone must urgently set them free!
I consider that a pretty damning criticism of father and mother A.
Addition: Watch out for don’t like change. I still remember that from the great systemd wars over a decade ago. Spelled out in full, the meaning is roughly (guess of mine):
You’re nothing but a stupid old git whose mind long since lost the ability to cope with Exciting New Stuff™ and desperately try to hide this age-induced deficiency of yours by offering seemingly rational criticism of (our) Exciting New Stuff™, but nobody’s going to fall for that!
That’s a great way to brush away any rational criticism from more experienced people in order to get them out of the way of Exciting New Stuff™ which – more often than not – is really nothing but Boring Old Crap™ with a lot of fancy new make-up.
System d?
The scientific name is hydrocephalus poetteringi
:->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd
I’m meanwhile forced to support that professionally and didn’t find this particularly difficult. But the experience has certainly not added anything positive to my life, either.
Ah thanks
Yes after 38 years and counting in IT I’ve seen plenty of fashions come and go and “new” things are rarely as revolutionary as they are made out to be
“Populists”—Is that those people who don’t want crazy people from the middle east walking 10 yards behind their girlfriend or sister hurling abuse at them because their shoulders are on display?
It does make you wonder what the fight for Irish Independence was all about?
All along that singing river that black mass of men was seen
High above their shining weapons flew their own beloved green
Death to every foe and traitor! Whistle out the marching tune
And hurrah, me boys, for freedom, ’tis the rising of the moon
[Chorus]
‘Tis the rising of the moon, ’tis the rising of the moon
And hurrah, me boys, for freedom, ’tis the rising of the moon
White man bad .Baa
Having recently visited the south west of Ireland I can confirm that they are as bigoted and backward in outlook as ever. “Ooh Ahh up the RA” is the standard anthem to end a night in a club. “You’d better not be bloody Englush” was what a girl was greeted with when called out onto the floor by a dancing DJ.
Good craic.
So you’re judging the whole of Ireland by your experience of one night in one club in the south west of Ireland!
Further to my post earlier, from what little I can gather from the excerpts here the “outrage” over the book and the reason for its withdrawal is NOT the unreasonable disapproval intended towards Family A, but the implication that the typical Irish family is like Family A – but the assumption even behind this “outrage” is that Family A are Bad People, and the average “non-diverse” Irish family, while they may still be partial to spuds, are really not that bad – but they must make a special effort to just love brown people and their things, and make sure they don’t suffer the fate of turning into the despicable Family A. So even the withdrawal is quite subtle. It’s bloody depressing how far we are from any kind of sensible conversation on this stuff – the debate is still being carried out within the terms of reference of the Woke Left.
That is the standard of education for 14/15 year olds??? (Dusts off her old O level essays…..)
And what of the authors of this racist atrocity? Annie Potts and Nodlaig O’grady
an old ladies tweet sees her go to prison!
This is in writing! Arrest them and jail them!
No, as usual, no responsibility will be metered out because its only white people they’re being racist against
Diversity is a lie: it has never had and nor will it ever have any intention of including white people. White women married to black men is tacitly accepted because it is politically useful.
Look at adverts on the TV. White male / white woman, the bloke is a useless idiot and they have a crap marriage. Black male / white woman, always blonde, the male is a hero and they are so, so happy and successful.
Interestingly it was Chris Rock, a black American comedian, who made me notice it. He had an entirely back audience and he started talking about the adverts and how absurd they were. Why absurd? As he said, your Mom will let you date a white girl but there ain’t no way she’ll let you marry a whitey.
Next time you get an advert break watch the adverts and see how blacks are always portrayed as hero’s and super-efficient. Also note there are never any black women except in clothing adverts.
Spot on. Notice also that every well-off Third World Ethnic in the West with high career ambitions scorns marrying a member of their own ethnic group, and always hold out for a white spouse, preferably blond, as a ticket to career advancement.
Only a very few, like the famous American Ethnic African actor Will Smith, preferred to “marry his own”, as the late great Cassius Clay also preferred, in his interview with Michael Parkinson:
Muhammad Ali – Racial Integration (youtube.com)
And democratic Presidential election adverts.
[Allegedly black?]