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Liam Hogan
@Limerick1914
Librarian & Historian. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. https://t.co/6CHuJE46ks https://t.co/LUxbGL1qFV Bluesky https://t.co/vZGSQLWuGh
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Jul 19, 2018 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Geary Act are the origins of the exclusionary concept of "illegal immigration" (based on ethnicity/race) in U.S. history. The former was heavily influenced by an Irish immigrant and the latter was authored by a second-generation Irish American. In 1850 there were slaveowners with the surname “Reilly” in Mississippi, Washington D.C., Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina and Virginia.
Jul 14, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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“Cultural Marxism" is a derivative
of "Cultural Bolshevism", a Nazi term used to label all perceived threats to the "purity" of the Herrenvolk
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Jul 10, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Memorial to the White Rose movement at @LMU_Muenchen #munich Thomas Mann (1943)
Jul 5, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
One review I read stated that “the show was informative, linked Irish slaves into the story and explained very well the Underground Railway.” 👀 The reductionist fallacy of “slavery is slavery” should be strongly resisted in this context as racialised chattel slavery in the Americas was arguably unique in world history and its legacies still affect millions of people.

Compare, yes. Equate, never. Be specific, always.
Jul 3, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"Political Correctness" is a politically correct term for anti-racism, anti-sexism and anti-fascism. "Cultural Marxism" is a far-right conspiracy theory and a derivative of "Cultural Bolshevism", a term used by the Nazis to describe all perceived threats to the moral and cultural "purity" of the Herrenvolk.
Jun 26, 2018 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
United States Supreme Court: "A free negro of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as slaves, is not a "citizen" within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States." (1857) U.S. Supreme Court: “If the applicant is a white person within the meaning of this section he is entitled to naturalization; otherwise not.” (1923)
Jun 14, 2018 • 42 tweets • 8 min read
This biblical passage was used by the Dutch Refomed Church in Apartheid South Africa. It was also used by some Christian denominations in Nazi Germany to justify accommodation with the Third Reich. This biblical passage was also used by Reverend John C. Lord during his sermon in 1851 where he implored his audience to obey the Fugitive Slave Act.
Mar 11, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I just typed slavery into the youtube search and clicked on a video by an academic discussing the origins of plantation slavery in the New World.

The next video queued up to autoplay was a discussion of "white slavery" by two Holocaust deniers (Ernst Zündel & Michael Hoffman II) I typed "slave trade" into the youtube search and the eighth video in the list (out of 653,000 results) is a work of anti-Semitic propaganda which falsely claims that Jewish people dominated the transatlantic slave trade.
Mar 11, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Bannon wore his racism as a badge of honour when he published an op-ed in the wake of the Charleston massacre which exalted the Confederate flag and hailed the Confederacy’s “glorious heritage” Breitbart’s apocalyptic messaging mirrors the paranoid ethno-nationalist essentialism of Neo-Nazism.
Feb 7, 2018 • 56 tweets • 11 min read
The entire Book of Exodus was removed from this “slave bible” This censorship was in vain. From 1808 until abolition in 1834 multiple slave revolts in the Anglo-Caribbean were led by slaves inspired by scripture.
Feb 7, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The “race riot” misnomer originates from narratives authored by the perpetrators/supporters of anti-black massacres/pogroms, e.g. the account of Alfred Waddell, a former confederate officer and white supremacist leader during the Wilmington massacre. The Seattle Republican (an African American newspaper) mocked the use of the term "race riot" to describe anti-black violence in Mississippi in 1906
Feb 5, 2018 • 33 tweets • 6 min read
The Haitian "zombie" folklore/mythology entered white American cultural consciousness during the 1920s-30s, i.e. during the U.S. occupation of Haiti. At the same time that U.S. officers were subjecting poor Haitians to forced labour schemes (they reintroduced the corvée system), their culture was being sensationalised, distorted and commodified in order to sell theatre tickets.
Jan 30, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The Biblical Recorder (N. Carolina) deployed this pro-slavery rhetoric in 1849 "The negro slaves...a race of people destined by a judgment of god; & adapted only for slavery...if they [visited Ireland] they would hoot at the offer of an exchange from theirs to Irish slavery" In 1834 the Irish-born District Attorney in Tennessee stated that although chattel slavery was "unlovely" the enslaved were in better condition than "the labouring classes in Europe"
Jan 18, 2018 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Neo-Nazis have used this tactic in their attempts to gain support for over 50 years. Rooted in Strasserism. None of this is new or interesting. “I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.” - Hitler (1923)
Nov 26, 2017 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This also applies to Europe and I would go one further in my analysis. It shows that, at some level, they believe that the Alt-Reich have a point. The normalization of neo-Nazism in mainstream discourse was last year’s debate. This year we face the ongoing and proactive accommodation of their views. The false equivalence fallacy is used to help them get their message out in print & on campuses
Nov 10, 2017 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What he hopes to elide is the religious, cultural and ideological context that helps to explain why unmarried mothers and their children were deliberately alienated and segregated by the Irish state and its citizenry. If you are wondering why I feel so angry about this, please read this thread in full.
Aug 16, 2017 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Just in case anyone needs this. All of my work on the ‘Irish slaves’ meme (2015–2016) medium.com/@Limerick1914/… Like clockwork.
Jul 30, 2017 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
It's not well known that the congregation of the First African Baptist Church in Richmond donated c. $40 towards Irish Famine Relief in 1847 "More than 2,000 of the congregation were slaves. About 150 were free." (Mary Lyons, The Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad)
Feb 14, 2017 • 39 tweets • 10 min read
Excerpt from an Act to authorize the impressment of slaves and other personal property for military purposes (Mississippi, 1863) #ACW Rather than printing individual notices, a newspaper in Louisiana published a register of runaway slaves. (Sugar Planter, 15 March 1856)
Feb 9, 2017 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
"When the [slave ship] arrived...thirty nine Negroes, who were totally blind, were thrown into the sea as being quite useless." (1820) The captain ordered that each was to be tied to a piece of ballast to ensure that they drowned.
Jan 23, 2017 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Yet the Irish Times Alt-Reich glossary (which is still live & generating revenue) assures us that this is not a disgusting racial slur. It is (according to their "American writer") merely an "attempt to approximate [African American] vernacular English"