“After only couple of hours Googling it, Rebecca, a 14-year-old, had found out these signs had, in fact, existed all along. Not only in newspaper listings—in which they appeared in droves—but, after further research, in shop windows, too.”
Where is this article? Where is the actual physical evidence?
I’d really like to see how actual SIGNS are verified. Did she find some in someone’s attic?
Where is this article so I can see just how she proves him all wrong?
‘“It was out of the blue on May 1st, May Day—which is sort of fortuitous, now that I think about it,” says Miller. May Day is International Workers’ Day, which celebrates laborers worldwide.’
oooohhhhkaaay.....
Gives me great boost of confidence in the motives.
“She then makes a salient point: Even if it were 15 recorded instances per year or 1,500—the signs existed, the persecution was real, and discrimination of the Irish was not an imagined feeling, but a reality difficult to both express and quantify.”
Not salient. It INDEED matters how many/% exist; typical liberal thoughts “if just one....”. Any given thing always has 1 example, but that does not prove its prevalence; in this case, not ipso-facto “discrimination”.
How did they "verify actual signs?" probably by photographs, einstein. How would you verify something from the 1800's? Geez.