[Smedley]

Actually, Chinese building the railroads were treated as slaves and shot if they tried to escape. The Irish were also slaves at one time.

[ifinnegan]

“Actually, Chinese building the railroads were treated as slaves and shot if they tried to escape. The Irish were also slaves at one time.”

Chinese were never slaves in the US.

Irish were sold in to slavery early on, not in what became the US.

There’s no upside of trying to equate what was done to Africans vis-a-vis slavery and other groups, because it’s not true there’s any equivalency or even similarity.

It’s just weird.

[ichabod1]

Later, the Irish were marched right off the boats and into uniform and sent to free the blacks, which rankled some.