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Common elements
Common elements to memes that propagate the myth are:[2][26][27]
The conspiracy theory that historians and the media are covering up Irish slavery.
That Irish people were enslaved after the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland in 1649.
Irish slaves were treated worse than African slaves.
Irish women were forced to reproduce with African men.
Intending to diminish the discrimination that African-Americans have historically experienced, with memes like "The Irish were slaves, too. We got over it, so why can't you?".
Using photographs of victims of the Holocaust or 20th century child laborers, claiming that they are Irish slaves.
A reference to an alleged 1625 declaration by King James II to send thousands of Irish prisoners to the West Indies as slaves. James II had not been born yet; he was born in 1633 and started his rule in 1685. 1625 saw the end of James I's rule and the rise of Charles I to the throne.
The substitution of the victims of actual atrocities committed against African slaves with Irish victims. The far-right conspiracy website InfoWars, for instance, substituted the 132 African victims of the 1781 Zong massacre with Irish victims. Several online articles about "Irish slaves" have inflated the number 132 to 1,302. Historian Liam Hogan traces the first juxtaposition of the Zong massacre with Irish suffering to 2002, when James Mullin, chair of the New Jersey-based Irish Famine Curriculum Committee and Education Fund, wrote a lurid article blurring the lines between the history of African enslavement in the British Americas with the history of Irish colonial indentured servitude.[28][29]
Lol as described.
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