this whole discussion is taking me (as conversations about these issues often do) to the work of Beverly Daniel Tatum, who points out that all children need a positive racial identity, but that Whiteness attempts to erode the cultures and ethnicities of white people in order to create whiteness & white supremacy.

white culture, in other words, IS white supremacy

that doesn't mean the cultures it is trying to flatten are white supremacist, but it does mean that to the extent they have assimilated to whiteness, they have had to assimilate white supremacy along with it.

What I kind...a little telling about the LW's approach is that they did not attempt to figure out either modern Irish culture, or the Irish culture of their ancestors -- they attempted to figure out modern Irish-American culture. That culture is as assimilated as fuck to whiteness.